Malawi – Open Access 2008

by HASH on November 12, 2008

Who	Open Access 2008
When	Wednesday, November 12, 2008 8:00am - All Ages
Where	Crossroads Hotel (map) P.O. Box Box X1 Lilongwe, Malawi Superbly situated at the Crossroads Complex in Lilongwe , by the Mchinji roundabout in Area 9 and just 25 minutes from the International Airport . Crossroads Hotel is centrally located about 10 minutes drive from either Old Town “the commercial hub” of the City or City Centre where all Central Government offices, Donor Agency offices, major Non-Governmental Organizations and Foreign Missions for Malawi's cooperating partners.
Other Info	Open Access in the context of Communication (Open Communication) means that anyone, on equal conditions with a transparent relation between cost and pricing, can get access to and share communication resources on one level to provide value added services on another level in a layered communication system architecture. There is currently a high momentum in the deployment of infrastructures such as optic fiber, wireless and the like. Also, the advancement in the use of ICT in general such as mobile phones, multipurpose telecentres. If used wisely, we believe these developments can facilitate provisioning of relatively inexpensive, easily accessible, diversified and expandable ICT services. The objective of this workshop is to identify and share experiences on affordable and cost effective ICT technologies around the globe. Based on Open Access principles, the workshop intends to address ICT as a tool that will bring developmental change to the society at large. Besides sharing of communication resources, the 6th Open Access Conference in Malawi will also address the sharing of processing and memory capacity in terms of grid technologies. The EU-supported EELA-2 project (http://www.eu-eela.eu/) offers a tutorial and an opportunity for interested users as well as providers of computer resources to explore how they could benefit from connecting to a global computational grid.