1st Open Access Day @ IIITM-K

14th October 2008 was celebrated world wide as the open access day to bring awareness and encourage publishing of research and literary works in open access over the web. IIITM-K celebrated the Open Access Day with a day long workshop . Different presentations were made in the workshop. In forenoon session had discussions "on open systems, open architecture and open content" and in afternoon section main topic was 'Trivandrum Science City' concept. The topics discussed include.

EGGS: Education Grid Gateway System, As Open System for E-Learning and Open Content Management in Education and Research by Dr K R Srivathsan (Director, IIITMK). Virtualization: A Green IT Solution for EGGS by Mr Sukant Kole,
EGGS-Video on Demand for Colleges by Mr David Mathew (Design Engineer, IIITMK)
KISSAN, VUAT, E-Krishi and Open Content in Agriculture by Dr C K Peethambaran
KISSAN, Krishideepam and NAIP-AKM- Highlights of Open Content and Open Services for Agriculture by Mr R Ajith Kumar,
Open Access Publishing by Dr S Rajendran (Div.Head, Library, VSSC)
Online Library and Information Services -as Open e-Library and Open Publishing Platform by Sainul Abideen P (Librarian, IIITMK)
Kerala Open Patent Movement by Mr Praveen Raj (NIIST)
Open GIS development by Mr T Radhakrishnan
Trivandrum Science City Concept by Dr M S Gopinathan
ACIIL and Interdisciplinary Education program by Dr K R Srivathsan (Director, IIITMK).

After the presentations, a Panel discussion on 'Trivandrum Science City Concept' was carried out by a panel from the Trivandrum region organizations which was
moderated by Dr C S P Iyer.