On the influence of context and culture on the design and development of adaptive and adaptable information systems...

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

World Telecom and Information Society Day

Well, there seem to be days for everything whether it is mothers day, valentines day or world standards day...but this one seems to be of particular interest:
Ban Ki-Moon has addressed the issue of access to information globally: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=26751&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

His address includes the necessity for inclusion and access - and he specifically addresses researchers to achieve progress in this. My personal opinion is that the variety of global open education projects will definitely contribute towards better accessibility - but there is a need of harmonization and federation of existing offers...well, I will keep posting on global education & knowledge matters...just a good example for accessible open resources: The Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange (GLOBE) - here is an article on interoperability for repositories: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january08/ceri/01ceri.html

More to follow...