Semantic Grid friends There will be an OECD meeting on Grids in order to advise government policy. The meeting is 25-27 Sept in Australia I have been asked to lead a discussion on Semantic Grids, present an informational talk on semantic Grids, and address these points: What are the main challenges and impediments to knowledge-manipulation and reasoning on the Grid? How can governments help? To allow users to voluntarily adhere to conventions in providing necessary information to enable knowledge manipulation and reasoning and/or to adopt policy means? Are there significant privacy or intellectual property issues? Any views or comments from you all will be appreciated and directly channelled to government policy discussion Comments by Wed 21st would be appeciated Carole -- Carole Goble Professor of Computer Science University of Manchester UK tel: +44 161 275 6195 http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~carole