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  • From: Jane Park <janepark AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: Kelsey Wiens <kelseywiens AT gmail.com>, kayode yussuf <kayusyussuf AT yahoo.com>, Simeon Oriko <simeon AT jamlab.co.ke>, Alex Gakuru <gakuru AT creativecommons.org>, Paul KIHWELO <paulkih AT yahoo.com>, Helen Chuma-Okoro <helenchuma AT gmail.com>, Kas Salim <kas AT jamlab.co.ke>
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  • Subject: [Ccafrica-oer] Open Access Week + SOO Africa? (20-26 October)
  • Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 17:05:01 -0700

Hi all,

So Open Access Week (http://www.openaccessweek.org/) is the week of 20 Oct, the same week as the UNESCO higher ed SOO Africa launch that Alex is planning in Nairobi. I wonder if this is a good opportunity to highlight both OA and SOO? I've already let EFF folks who are organizing advocacy around that week that there will be an SOO Africa event. We could further promotion by tying OA into our communications for that week. What do you all think?

And if folks want to do anything else around OA in addition in their regions, EFF is encouraging blog posts and more, including highlighting this petition and Diego's case: https://act.eff.org/action/let-s-stand-together-to-promote-open-access-worldwide.

The theme for this year's OA week is student activism, which fits the SOO bill pretty nicely. So for those of you who have ties to student communities who care about access to research, this week would be the week to get them to share their stories. :)

Cheers,
Jane

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Jane Park
Creative Commons
Los Angeles, CA



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