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JISC conference - Strategic Content Alliance: building bridges to e-content

Published by Carrie Dunn on April 15, 2008 in jiscconference08 and Conferences. 1 Comment

Stuart Dempster, SCA

The SCA is funded by the BBC, Becta (the schools ICT agency), EPSRC, JISC, BL, MLA and the NHS (in particular, the national electronic library for health). The rationale for the SCA is about seamless access and the issue of lifelong leraning. The sponsors have recognised the benefits of working together in terms of expertise and funding. The analogy of the ‘marathon’ is useful when examining an individual’s changing and expanding access to e-content throughout their lives. A lot of public agencies provide different levels of access, and the SCA want to reduce the barriers that exist to access.

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JISC conference introduction: Sir Ron Cooke

Published by Carrie Dunn on April 15, 2008 in jiscconference08 and Conferences. 1 Comment

I’d like to open today’s conference by welcoming delegates, including sponsors OCLC, visiting international delegates, the opening keynote speaker Lord Puttnam, and closing speaker Angela Beesley.

This is my final conference before my retirement - again - and I’d like to speculate on what the future holds. The theme of the conference this year is Enabling Innovation, but before you enable it, you must spot trends and deliver strategy.

The staggering features of the electronic revolution have been the rate of change and the eternal problem keeping up.

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