eIFL.net on Open Access, Open Education, and Creative Commons

那么eIFL本身呢?你能总结一下它的宗旨、使命和首要议程吗?假设您还没有一个，如果您可以为eIFL正在尝试做的事情想出一个朗朗上口的新口号，您会是什么?

eIFL.net is a not-for-profit organization that supports and advocates the wide availability of electronic resources by library users in transitional and developing countries. It is universally acknowledged that access to knowledge is fundamental to education and research and the creation of human capital upon which the development of societies depend. This is especially true in a knowledge society where economic progress depends on having a literate and educated population. Libraries and education are synonymous. A library has little meaning if it cannot impart knowledge. Good education cannot exist without access to quality information resources to support teaching, learning and research. Our current slogan is “Enabling access to knowledge through libraries in transition and developing countries”. In July we will be having an eIFL visioning retreat to brainstorm and think where eIFL.net will be five to ten years from now.

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I’ve gathered (mainly from information on your website) that eIFL and Creative Commons are promoting and doing similar things. For example, the vision of the eIFL program “Advocacy for Access to Knowledge: copyright and libraries”, known as eIFL-IP, is the development of fair and balanced copyright laws taking into account libraries and the public interest. How would you relate these goals to CC and CC-licensing?

The goal ofeIFL-IP是通过公平和平衡的版权法，最大限度地获取教育、研究和公民社会的知识，版权法考虑到图书馆以及依赖图书馆服务来促进其教育、职业和生活机会的学生、研究人员和专业人员的需求。我们的愿景是，eIFL-IP图书馆员将成为促进知识获取的积极分子和领导者，特别是在数字时代。We are achieving this by

• creating a network of library copyright specialists and building capacity in the library perspective in copyright issues.
• becoming the recognised advocate for library copyright issues in developing and transitioning countries at international and national levels.
• encouraging the international library community to place the issues of developing and transitioning countries high on their agendas.

eIFL-IP and CC are natural allies because

For more information on the library perspective on CC:http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-ip/docs/handbook-e/#cc

What are some of the major challenges eIFL-IP faces?

The challenge that remains is how to build capacity at the national level; when we are working well at both international and national levels, we will achieve the best results.

版权与图书馆的相关性并不总是被认识到，因为它与图书馆日常活动的联系没有被完全理解。然而，这种情况正在改变，eIFL-IP图书馆员正变得越来越意识到，因此也更加积极。一旦建立了这种联系，倡导更好的版权法的重要性就会得到更好的理解。

Good activists are in short supply so it is disappointing to lose trained people due to changes in jobs or through emigration. We rely almost entirely on volunteers which limits our ability to make too onerous demands or to enforce deadlines.

How do you think these challenges will be overcome?

By focusing on building capacity

• providing resources e.g.http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-ip/issues/eifl-handbook-on
  

• holding an annual conference for face-to-face training e.g.http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-ip/training/2008-istanbul

• identifying “champions” and encouraging those who are active e.g. Moldova came to WIPO in March 2008, support for regional events (e.g. Nigeria Library Association pre-conference on copyright and digitisation in June 2008).

• developing a curriculum in copyright issues for libraries for mass training (see below).

You are also now developing a distance learning course on copyright for librarians jointly with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law. Can you describe the project?

In partnership with theBerkman Center for Internet and Societyat Harvard Law School in the USA, we are developing a brand new curriculum oncopyright for librarians. This is a first, and we hope that many more librarians, especially in developing and transitioning countries, will benefit from the training and become advocates for access to knowledge.

The curriculum seeks to develop greater understanding of copyright by librarians. The goal is to build a human network from which they can draw support. We hope to reach a critical mass of librarians who can contribute to public discussion, who can take part in informed debate with government and industry representatives, and who can join the library community from the developed world by expressing their views in important international forums, such as the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The course should be implemented with strategic partners in the global South, such as library training and law schools in universities, as well as distance learning programs.

The goals of the course are:

• To develop greater understanding of copyright by librarians by providing copyright training tailored to the needs of librarians in developing and transitioning countries.
• To support librarians’ mission (participation to the access to knowledge movement).
• To help librarians answer copyright questions they face during their work.
• 帮助图书管理员回答用户关于其权利(教授、学生、公众)的问题。
• To empower librarians to advise governments and other public policy makers and initiatives toward balanced copyright law.

这种合作关系以及其他合作关系对你的工作有多重要?你是否在寻求更多的合作伙伴?什么类型的组织是你努力的关键?

Collaboration is very important as our agenda and wishes are great and we can not accomplish everything by ourselves. There are certain movements and program areas that require strong advocacy, and for this, more voices are better. This applies to our activities in Open Access (OA), Intellectual Property (IP) and Free and Open Source (FOSS). Some of our programs are more advanced than others as we launched them in different years. Our newest program is on FOSS; we started it only last fall. We have quite a long list of NGO partners in IP, which were built due to our strong presence at WIPO. We are building more partnerships in OA and FOSS this year.

Like ccLearn, eIFL is a project that is involved with the Open Education Movement. How would you define the Open Education Movement, and what role does eIFL play in it?

The goal of the Open Education movement is to create a world where each and every person on earth can access and contribute to the sum of all human knowledge. This goal can be reached by developing a vast pool of educational resources on the Internet, open and free for all to use. eIFL Open Access (OA) Program encourages sharing of research publications and educational materials.

Through the eIFL OA Program, eIFL members build capacity of the issues related to OA to enable members to benefit from the content, which is made freely available through OA, as well as ensuring that the local content produced within their countries is widely distributed. This is accomplished through the development of open repositories (for the research papers and educational materials) and by encouraging authors within the countries to publish their articles in Open Access journals. eIFL-OA Program seeks to enhance access and use of research findings, increase the efficiency of research developments, and accelerate use and innovation—stimulating the economy. To achieve this, we apply the developing practices of Open Access as defined by the Budapest Open Access Initiative (http://www.soros.org/openaccess/). The same practices became the foundation for the recently launched Cape Town Open Education Declaration: Unlocking the promise of open educational resources (http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/).

此外，ccLearn专注于教育人们关于开放教育的法律和技术互操作性的重要性。你对此有什么看法?你认为在开放教育方面，ccLearn(和知识共享)还有哪些活动应该是优先考虑的?卡塔尔vs葡萄牙分析