Presentation given to senior civil-servants doing in-service training at Indian Institute for Public Administration in New Delhi, January 2010. Audio available here: http://reganmian.net/file/Talk%20IIPA%20Jan%204%202010.mp3

1. Openness: for your research and for India
Stian Håklev
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Presented at Indian Institute for Public Administration, Delhi, January 4, 2010

2. Outline
Open research
Meaning of openness
Stories of openness
India: OER and
open government

3. Open research

4. Previous knowledge

5. Libraries

6. OpenLib frontpage

7. OpenLib Sanskrit 1

8. OpenLib sanskrit 2

9. Ulib telugu

10. Journals

11. 11

12. 12

13. E-LIS

14. 14

15. 15

16. 16

17. Conversation

18. Mailing lists
Virtual
conferences
Blogs
Turning journal
articles into
conversations
Open Notebook
Science

19. 19

20. Useful Chem

21. Tools

22. Open Source Software
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Advanced mathematics and statistics
Mobile device emulators
Bibliography management
Open Office
Etc…

23. Openness as a transformative value

24. s in speech/beer
24

25. free software
25

26. creative commons
26

27. ccmixter
27

28. flickr cc
28

29. Different meanings of open
29

30. Three pillars of openness
Open license
Open files/data
Open collaboration

31. wikipedia
31

32. 32

33. the story of a
seed
33

34. 34

35. 35

36. 36

37. a story enabled by
openness
37

38. 38

39. 39

40. 40

41. 41

42. 42

47. Two case studies from
India

48. nptel youtube
48

49. IIT Youtube 1

50. egyankosh yt
50

51. egyan tsp list
51

52. egyan book
52

53. ind textbook main
53

54. ind textbook fpag
54

55. 55

56. 56

57. By making
India’s
research and
teaching
available
you benefit
the world –
and India
itself!

58. Open government

59. British government
Public data will be published in reusable, machine-readable form
Public data will be available and easy to find through a single easy to
use online access point
Public data will be published using open standards and following the
recommendations of the World Wide Web Consortium
Any ‘raw’ dataset will be represented in linked data form
More public data will be released under an open licence which
enables free reuse, including commercial reuse
Data underlying the Government’s own websites will be published
in reusable form for others to use
Personal, classified, commercially sensitive and third-party data will
continue to be protected.

70. Thank you
and good luck!
Stian Håklev
shaklev@gmail.com
http://reganmian.net