OA, a gift of developing countries. - Open Access Week

"[A]t the G7 conference in Brussels in February 1995, Thabo Mbeki, then deputy president of South Africa stated that "more than half of mankind has never dialled a phone [and] there are more telephones in Manhattan than in all SSA. As a medical student doing his thesis on the topic of the research of medical information on internet by health professionals, I have had several opportunities to see how difficult it is to get good quality information. That’s how I discovered OA and the opportunity it represent for developing countries. In spite of that the OA movement is almost unknown here. So I gathered some of my classmates to help me celebrate the OAW 2010. In the framework of this event we decided to conduct a survey among doctors and medical students of the faculty of medicine, pharmacy and odonto-stomatology of the University of Bamako in Mali in order to assess their knowledge and skills to use the OA resources. That will allow us to best plan the OAW activities and to give to the event a greatest visibility...."