By Justin Ahinon, Babasile Daniel & Thomas Mboa

1. Scholarly communication in Africa: challenges and solution
Kumasi
13 – 15 April 2018
Justin Ahinon | APSOHA | @justinahinon1
Thomas Mboa | APSOHA | @Mboathomas
Babasil Daniel | GreenLab | @OpenLabs_

2. The necessity to have an African repository of all informations
and initiatives on open science
Babasil
Daniel

3. AFRICAN French speaking universities: What is the situation ?
Justin Ahinon

4. AFRICAN FRENCH SPEAKING UNIVERSITIES: WHAT IS THE
SITUATION ?
 The part of Africa scientific content
on the scientific web
 What are the reasons ?
 How this part is evaluated ?
 What are the languages that are
considerate ?
 What kind of documentation are
considerate ?
 What platforms, journals, reviews are
considerate ?

5. What are the realities in term of scientific
publications with researchers, teachers and students
in Africa ?

6. WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES WE NEED TO MEET ?
 Improvement of the web literacy
 Valorisation of locals knowledge
 Motivation of more people to publish their works results
 Promotion of open scientific platforms

7. Existing initiatives

8. APSOHA (ASSOCIATION POUR LA PROMOTION DE LA
SCIENCE OUVERTE EN HAÏTI ET EN AFRIQUE)

9. APSOHA (ASSOCIATION POUR LA PROMOTION DE LA
SCIENCE OUVERTE EN HAÏTI ET EN AFRIQUE)
 Precisely titled “The open science as a tool of cognitive
justice and development of the capacity to act in Haiti
and francophone Africa”
 The project aims to explore the potential of open science
to institute more cognitive justice in francophone south
countries (Haiti and sub-saharan Africa)

10. APSOHA (ASSOCIATION POUR LA PROMOTION DE LA
SCIENCE OUVERTE EN HAÏTI ET EN AFRIQUE)
 Today, the APSOHA, it’s:
 More than 5000 people engaged around the world
 18 countries from francophone Africa
 A very large and active community on Facebook
 Clubs created in Haiti, Benin, Ivory-Coast, Niger

11. What next ?

12. DICAMES
 Institutional archive of the CAMES (https://savoirs.cames.online)
 A platform that permit conservation and diffusion of all scientific production
of francophone Africans countries
 The platform is open and free to access
 The platform is collaborative; every one can contribute
 DICAMES gives the opportunity to researchers and teachers to share their
work
 Improve the accessibility of scientific productions, allowing their indexation
par search engines as Google Scholar

14. OPEN AFRICAN REPOSITORY (OAR)
 The OAR is an open source platform that aim to complete the
DICAMES platform (https://github.com/JustinyAhin/open-african-
repository)
 The goal is to create an “African Zenodo”, by referencing and
recording the publications downloads and their consultations
 The OAR project was initiated with the Mozilla Open Leaders
Initiative in December 2017
 The project is collaborative and currently looking for contributors
on GitHub

16. Best practices of scholarly communication
Thomas
Mboa