Information for Development
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The document discusses the importance of education for sustainable development (ESD) and how it can be integrated into various education systems to prepare individuals for careers related to sustainability. It emphasizes the role of open access in facilitating the free exchange of knowledge essential for developing knowledge societies and addresses challenges like access to information. Additionally, it highlights initiatives and resources that libraries can adopt to support sustainable development and promote open access practices.
Information for Development
- 1. Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia Information for Sustainable Development Sanjaya Mishra
- 2. Sustainable Development … development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs - World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987
- 3. Education for Sustainable Development to integrate sustainable science and education; to strengthen co- ordination and collaboration between different levels of education for SD; and to mitigate information and knowledge gaps between different parts of the world.
- 4. The Future We Want to improve the capacity of our education systems to prepare people to pursue sustainable development enhance teacher training, develop sustainability curricula, develop training programmes prepare students for careers in fields related to sustainability use of information and communications technologies to enhance learning outcomes.
- 5. Indian Initiatives on ESD MHRD/National Coordination Committee Areas: Infrastructure, Education, Hea lth, Environment, Agriculture, Natural Disaster, Urban development, Poverty/ employment Centre for Environment Education
- 6. ESD: Problems Exponential growth of knowledge Business of knowledge and value creation Internet enabled infrastructure Access to technology Access to information
- 7. Knowledge Dynamics Knowledge CARRIERS & FORMATS Information Data We LEARN from.. RESEARCH & CREATIVITY LEARNING
- 8. Scholarly Communication • High cost of Journal subscription • Lack of transparency in Big Deals • Alternative ways to access information
- 9. Open Access Open Access is the provision of free access to peer- reviewed, scholarly and research information to all. It envisages that the rights holder grants worldwide irrevocable right of access to copy, use, distribute, transmit, and make derivative works in any format for any lawful activities with proper attribution to the original author.
- 10. Foundations of Open Access Freedom (as in free of cost and free speech) Flexibility ( choice of licensing mechanisms) Fairness ( to authors, funding bodies and society)
- 11. Philosophy of Open Access Knowledge is Free and should be shared amongst those who need it Access to past knowledge is essential to create new knowledge Everyone has a right to knowledge, and authors exercise their rights to share Open Access is not contrary to Copyright No individual should be discriminated due to various disadvantages Foster development of knowledge societies
- 12. Open Access: 4Dimensions Free Online Open Permanent
- 13. Types of Open Access: A Matrix
- 14. Growth of Open Access Gold open Access (8115 OA journals in DOAJ) Green Open Access (2211 repositories) Platinum Open Access (Social networking approach) – Mendeley, Research Gate, Academia.edu etc. 67% of Journals permit some form of self-archiving
- 15. Open Access Iniitiatives Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org) Directory of Open Access Books (http://www.doabooks.org/doab) Global Open Access Portal (http://www.unesco.org/ci/goap) Open Access Stories (http://www.oastories.org/) Open Access Week (http://www.openaccessweek.org/) Directory of Open Access Repositories (http://www.opendoar.org/) Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies (http://roarmap.eprints.org/)
- 16. Information Sources on SD UN: Division of Sustainable Development (http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/res_agenda21_40.shtml) Rio+20 (http://www.uncsd2012.org/) IISD: SD-Cite (http://sd-cite.iisd.org/) FAO: GIS in SD (http://www.fao.org/sd/EIdirect/gis/EIgis000.htm) Ipl2 (http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48534) World Bank (http://www.worldbank.org/depweb/english/sd.html)
- 17. What Libraries can do for Sustainable Development? • Promote OA journals and repositories • Ask our institutions to create OA repositories • Publish in OA journals • Submit our papers to OA repositories, especially institutional repositories (if your institution does not have a repository, you can still submit at • Encourage institutions to adopt OA policies • Encourage setting up of OA funds • Promote quality of OA journals
- 18. THANK YOU