[GOAL] EPT 2nd Annual OA Award

[Thembani Malapela]

The Electronic Publishing Trust for Development's 2nd annual award for
individual effort in support of Open Access goes to *Iryna Kuchma, *Ukraine
( together with the recognition of *Susan Veldsma) *as this
year's recipient.



May I take this singular effort to congratulate Iryna for such a sterling
effort done over the years, for some of us who have really seen on the
ground her efforts (through eifl) both from *OA Gold* and *OA
Green*related projects, are left with no doubt but to say that she has
distinguished herself within the Open Access area very well. I quote the
announcement which aptly states,



"  *thus she is largely responsible for EIFL’s accomplishments in the field
of Open Access, which include:*

   - * The establishment of more than 490 Open Repositories in the 45
   developing and transition countries which form the EIFL region of work*
   - * The development of more than 3,400 Open Access Journals in the EIFL
   region*
   - * The development of 34 OA policies in the EIFL region (for a list of
   the policies which have been adopted, please see:
   http://www.eifl.net/oa-policy)*.''



Infact, through her work it can be seen that the *Gold* and the
*Green*route cannot exist independently of each other and also that an
enabling
environment for Open Access is needed such as *favourable policy framework*,
*favourable copyright regimes*, *FOSS tools*, *OA advocacy* and *capacity
building efforts , *all these at grassroots level, national level and also
at international level (such as advocacy at the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO). Surely any programmes evaluator would love to evaluate
the impact of such brilliant results.


Once more congratulations and indeed your model in the open access is
indeed a torch bearer and a model especially for those with an
international outlook. It’s amazing how spreading efforts so thin on all
aspects of OA can scoop such astounding results , that’s surely maximising
on invested capital.

Thembani Malapela
Knowledge and Information Management Officer
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations

[Views presented above do not represent FAO , and are solely mine and no
prejudice and attribution shall be ascribed to any other entitly but self]
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