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Research4Life
HINARI/AGORA/OARE
20 May 2009, 12:30 -
13:00
ITU Headquarters, Room A
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Three
programmes – HINARI, AGORA and OARE –
form Research4Life provide developing
countries with free or low cost access
to academic and professional
peer-reviewed content online. The
Research4Life programmes constitute a
public-private partnership between WHO,
FAO, UNEP, Cornell and Yale
Universities, more than 130 science
publishers led by the International
Association of STM Publishers, and
technology partner Microsoft. The
partnership’s goal is to contribute to
the attainment of six of the UN’s eight
Millennium Development Goals, by
reducing the gap in scientific knowledge
between industrialized countries and the
developing world.
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This
will be an interactive presentation,
where the audience can take a virtual
walk through a 'have not and have'
experience of what it is like to be in a
scientist in a developing country, the
challenges of accessing and
affording the latest scientific
information, and how innovative
partnerships, such as Research4Life is
making this access and affordability
happen.
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through the web-cast,
please click here!
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