Global: Talking about ICTs and development

The Open Source Centre at the Meraka Institute will be hosting a two-day colloquium from February 6-8 on the importance of ICTs to development and transformation. Issues to be discussed at the meeting include open content and open access in academia, open content and development, free and open source and accessibility, research policy and access, the digital divide, intellectual property and policy, digital rights management and free and open source software.