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As a result of an initiative started in 2007, this week (Oct. 19-23 2009) many institutions -around the world- are celebrating Open Access Week.

“Open Access Week is an opportunity to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access to research, including access policies from all types of research funders, within the international higher education community and the general public. The now-annual event has been expanded from a single day to accommodate widespread global interest in the movement toward open, public access to scholarly research results.”
http://www.openaccessweek.org/

There are different types of events going on this week, from blog comments to videoconferences.  A couple of examples:

• A SPARC Open Access 101 - video
  
• International Open Access Week in Germany
• EDUCAUSE videoconference “Throwing Open the Doors: Strategies and Implications for Open Access” scheduled for Friday Oct. 23, 2009
  http://net.educause.edu/live0919
• …and of course some are simply twettering

Last but not least, in developing countries, OA has the -potential- to help reduce the “information-gap”; in some cases, a translation of the original document might be necessary, but I think that’s an area where researchers and language tools will work on.