Lima, Peru28 October 2009

Peter Ballantyne

“all actors in the R&D process – from research design through to those who will apply the outcomes in the field – should communicate with each other and should have equal access to knowledge”

“Innovation processes can be enhanced by creating more possibilities for actors to interact”

Inclusive, participatory approaches to knowledge-sharing.

Mobilize knowledge from a diverse set of sources.

Tap into many other information flows and find ways to document and provide access to this knowledge

Design information products and services for more diverse audiences.

Devise different, collaborative, interactive ways to share and exchange information.

New ‘communicators’ to support collaboration and interactive processes with different types of stakeholders

“International public goods are … outputs of knowledge and technology … that are applicable and readily accessible internationally”

information and knowledge are not born ‘public.’ We must make them public, i.e., to be available, accessible, and applicable.

'Open knowledge' is any content, information or data that people are free to use, re-use and redistribute - without any legal, technological or social restriction.

The main principles are:◦ Free and open access to the material◦ Freedom to redistribute the material◦ Freedom to reuse the material◦ http://www.okfn.org/about

“In the economy of ideas that the web is creating, you are what you share … The biggest change the web will have on us is to allow us to share with one another in new ways and particularly to share ideas.”

Charlie Leadbetter

http://iaald.blogspot.com http://feeds.feedburner.com/aginfonoticiasiaald http://www.flickr.com/photos/iaald http://iaald.blip.tv http//twitter.com/iaald http://delicious.com/iaald http://iaaldnetwork.ning.com http://www.slideshare.net/iaald www.iaald.org info@iaald.org

Future libraries will increasingly be places to exchange and interact

Future libraries will be more and more ‘e-libraries’

‘Users’ will become ‘collaborators’ and librarians will become knowledge sharing catalysts and brokers