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The A2K term is also used in academic discourse and literature. Bloomsbury Academic have produced a series on issues in Brazil, [1] Egypt [2] and India; [3] while UCT Press have published an overview of the issues in Africa. [4] An academic overview of the issues can be found in 'Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property ...
James Packard Love (born 1950) is the director of Knowledge Ecology International, formerly known as the Consumer Project on Technology, a non-governmental organization with offices in Washington, D.C., and Geneva, that works mainly on matters concerning knowledge management and governance, including intellectual property policy and practice and innovation policy, particularly as they relate ...
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Open access contributions must satisfy two conditions: The author(s) and right holder(s) of such contributions grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any ...
Knowledge worker productivity demands that we ask the question: "What is the task?" It demands that we impose the responsibility for their productivity on the individual knowledge workers themselves. Knowledge workers have to manage themselves. Continuing innovation has to be part of the work, the task and the responsibility of knowledge workers.
The Wikimedia Foundation has identified knowledge equity as a key element toward its strategic direction for an ecosystem of open and inclusive knowledge, [5] [6] where everybody has the access to create and consume knowledge. [7] This has been connected with education as a social strategy for expanding knowledge equity. [7]
The democratization of knowledge is the acquisition and spread of knowledge amongst a wider part of the population, not just privileged elites such as clergy and academics. Libraries , in particular public libraries, and modern information technology such as the Internet play a key role, as they provide the masses with open access to information .
The Guerilla Open Access Manifesto is a document published by (and widely attributed to) Aaron Swartz in 2008 that argues for transgressive approaches to achieving the goals of the open access movement through civil disobedience, willful violation of copyright and contracts that restrict redistribution of knowledge, and activities that exist in ...