Jasper Lee Maenzanise, Zimbabwe Open University and eIFL Open Access country coordinator, gave another presentation about open access movement at Zimbabwe Book Fair Writers Workshop on 29th of July 2008. While tertiary institutions are well informed about open access, there is still a dearth of knowledge among most people regarding this new paradigm. It was felt that there is need for more open access workshops that would involve both theory and practical demos on paradigm of scholarly communication and how to access and use some of the open access resource. Such workshops should also include high level Government Officials if the nation is going to mandate Open Access. And this is certainly being planned for through the Research Council of Zimbabwe's (RCZ) Informatics Committee.

It was also expressed that most writers would like to contribute their artistic and literally works and make use of the Creative Commons Licence particularly where the local publishing industry is facing several limitations in terms of publishing their works. Details of how they could go the Creative Commons route would be communicated through the Writers Association and the ZIBF Office.

It is pragmatic that more OA road shows and workshops should be planned and implemented as a matter of urgency.