Why doesn't Academia understand Industrial Work?. 20 Jul 2004: “If we want to, in Bryan's words, close the gap between academic and industrial work, such that a better understanding for industrial problem is the result (which could lead to improved paper acceptance rates, among other things), than industry will need to be more pro-active in making researchers aware of what the problems are that they need to solve, on short as well as long term. Industry has a chance to drive the research agenda as long as it is willing to open up and show what the real [RootPrompt -- Nothing but Unix]

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“The gap between industry and academic work has grown to be large.”

not sure that i agree.

ITU-T and Internet Governance.

Houlin Zhao, Director of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector's (ITU-T) Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, gave a talk on Internet Governance at ITU Telecom Africa. The ITU-T maintains a website on ITU-T and Internet Governance which is also linked to from the ITU Internet Governance Resources site.

[ITU Strategy and Policy Unit Newslog]

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more itu stuff.

More on Google indexing of OAI-compliant archives. Kinley Levack, A Giant Leap for Academia? Google Ventures into DSpace, EContent, EContent, July/August, 2004. Excerpt: “DSpace is open-source software designed to assist colleges and universities in creating, managing, and maintaining digital repositories. There are currently about 125 schools using this software, but no tool existed that enabled searching across repositories instead of just within them. [PS: Untrue, but these tools are not as popular or comprehensive as Google.] Enter Google into DSpace. Google and 17 partner schools have joined forces on a pilot program to enable searching among DSpace repositories….Although both sides have been tight lipped about the project, representatives from DSpace have commented that the agreement with Google is not exclusive and that they are open to working with other search engine companies or even developing their own technology. Plans with Google continue to move forward, though, and if all goes well with the pilot, then Google may launch the program under its Advanced Search section within the next few months.” [Open Access News]

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this is fairly interesting, google is covering oai.

Interesting survey of blog readers by Blogads [Joi Ito's Web]

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interesting enough…..

ITU/BDT Arab Regional Workshop on IPv6.

ITU/BDT Arab Regional Workshop on Internet Protocol Version-6 (IPv6) in Tunis 20-22 July 2004.

[ITU Strategy and Policy Unit Newslog]

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this is fairly interesting…..