Introductory talk from BA Festival of Science session: HOW SCIENCE ADDRESSES DEVELOPING WORLD ISSUES

1. How Science Addresses Developing World Issues

3. Sharing knowledge

4. Knowledge is power

6. Digital divide or digital bridge?

8. Mobile phones in Africa Source: African Mobile Factbook 2008

9. SMS messaging for trading

10. Increasing use of PDAs and mobile phone networks for data gathering

11. The founders of 03b Networks recently helped pioneer the first commercial 3G mobile and fibre-to-the-home networks in Rwanda The company said the system will enable the spread of locally generated content and e-learning, encouraging social and economic growth in the developing world. It aims to tap into booming mobile phone usage in the developing world

12. In what areas can increased access to knowledge help?

14. Who needs access to the results of research? Public Professionals Researchers

19. Why use is the research if the people it is most relevant to don’t have access?

21. Open Access in practice

22. Repositories of open content

25. Open Access journals

26. Malaria Journal home page

27. A highly accessed Malaria Journal article 10,000+ downloads 22 citations

28. Where are papers on malaria published ?

30. Other tropical diseases….

31. The latest open access research on global health issues

32. A knowledge commons

33. Malaria Journal’s author-base is geographically diverse

34. Local journals are going global via Open Access

38. Stories from the developing world

39. The benefits of open access for the developing world

40. Zambia

41. Nigeria

42. The Gambia