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Entries from April 2007

Access to Knowledge conference at Yale, Apr 27-29

April 18th, 2007 No Comments

Via BoingBoing:
The last several years have witnessed the coalescing of the Access to Knowledge (A2K) social movement that champions human rights, human development, and the public interest as the focal points of innovation and information policy.
The Yale Information Society Project’s (ISP) first A2K conference advanced our commitment to building a broad conceptual framework of Access […]

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SfAA Podcasts

April 18th, 2007 1 Comment

[Cross posted at Savage Minds]
Jen Cardew has set up a website where you can download podcasts of sessions from this year’s SfAA meeting. Only a few are up so far, but more will be posted as they become available. Great work Jen!
It is worth noting that she did this using Wordpress.com’s free blog hosting - […]

Tags: Case studies

Call for Papers: New Proposals

April 9th, 2007 No Comments

Call for Papers for Volume 1, Issue 2.
New Proposals is an online peer reviewed journal that seeks to create a space for activist, Marxist, and progressive scholars. This journal represents an attempt to explore issues, ideas, and problems that lie at the intersection between the academic disciplines of social science and the body of thought […]

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Libraries and Indigenous Knowledge

April 8th, 2007 1 Comment

[Previously posted on Savage Minds]
I’m happy to inform you of a new open access book entitled Libraries and Indigenous Knowledge: A National Forum for Libraries, Archives and Information Services:
This book is an outcome of the Libraries and Indigenous Knowledge Colloquium held at the State Library of New South Wales in December 2004. The editors have […]

Tags: Case studies · Indigenous Rights