<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px arial; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0">Dear Colleagues,<BR><BR>The Information and Communication Technologies Association of Malawi<BR>(ICTAM) in collaboration with The Royal Swedish Institute of<BR>Technology (KTH) and The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa<BR>(OSISA) will host the 6th International Conference on Open Access at<BR>Crossroads Hotel, Lilongwe, Malawi from 12th to14th November 2008.<BR>This will be preceded by
the UbuntuNet Alliance Connect Conference:<BR>Driving effective Research and Education Networking in Africa at the<BR>same venue on 11th November 2008. </SPAN></DIV>
<P><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px arial; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0"></SPAN> </P>
<P><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px arial; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0">The workshop on Fiber for Open Access that was supposed to be held in Nairobi, Kenya has also been moved to Lilongwe and will be held as a parallel session to the main Open Access Conference.</P>
<DIV><BR><BR>YOU ARE INVITED. Please register to share experiences, plans or<BR>hypotheses under validation on various themes and sub themes.<BR><BR>For more information visit<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><A style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,204)" href="http://www.wideopenaccess.net" target=_blank>http://www.wideopenaccess.net</A><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>.<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR><FONT color=#888888>Boster.</FONT></SPAN></DIV></div><br>
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