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2 Introduction by Symposium Chair
Pages 5-6

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... This symposium will focus on issues relating to scientific data and information and on access to these resources, particularly from the viewpoint of those created by public funding, which should be in the public domain and on which there are significant encroachments taking place. Science today not only produces data but also is significantly dependent on these data for its own growth and survival.
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... CHALLENGES FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES We also must consider the impact of restrictions on access, not only from the viewpoint of science and as an international endeavor, particularly noting what is happening in the developed countries, but also on what would happen to the developing societies, and how they would access the data and information that is vital for their development and for their nascent science. We are talking about an economic divide, and now there is the growing digital divide.


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