1. The document summarizes efforts to establish a National Information Focal Unit (NIFU) in Morocco to coordinate information and knowledge management activities in support of agricultural research.
2. An initial meeting was held with representatives from five Moroccan research and training institutions to discuss launching a National Agricultural Research Information System and define a steering committee.
3. On-going projects initiated by the NIFU include implementing a new website and database to collect research output data, digitizing publications, and providing online resources and training to regional centers.
Invited presentation at UNESCO First Regional Latin American and Caribbean Consultation on Open Access to Scientific Information and Research
Kingston, Jamaica, 5-8 March 2013
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/news-and-in-focus-articles/all-news/news/first_regional_latin_american_and_caribbean_consultation_on_open_access_to_scientific_information_and_research/
This report summarizes the activities of the North African Sub Region RAIS/ICT Steering Committee at various levels:
1. At the sub-regional level, a meeting was held in Morocco to develop a common strategy for organizing research institutes and a proposal was prepared for an information system project but not submitted.
2. At the regional level, contacts were made with countries to share information on RAIS activities and collect data, but more support is needed from international centers.
3. At the national level in Morocco, advocacy efforts were made with decision makers and a national steering committee was formed to define a national agriculture information system plan.
4. At the institutional level, ongoing I
The document summarizes the formation and activities of the African Digital Library Support Network (ADLSN) which aims to facilitate access to local digital content in Africa through open source digital library software. It discusses how the network was established in 2004 and has since expanded to include national centers in multiple African countries that provide training and support. The ADLSN has helped create over 65 digital collections containing 20,000 items across Africa. It faces challenges like low technical skills and lack of infrastructure but makes recommendations like ensuring training reaches the right people and engaging library schools.
Supporting African Digital Library Projects: Experiences From The FieldAmos Kujenga
The document summarizes the formation and activities of the African Digital Library Support Network (ADLSN) which aims to facilitate access to local digital content in Africa through open source digital library software. It discusses how the network was established in 2004 and has since expanded to include national centers in multiple African countries that provide training and support. The ADLSN has helped create over 65 digital collections containing 20,000 items across Africa. It faces challenges like low technical skills and lack of infrastructure but makes recommendations like ensuring training reaches the right people and engaging library schools.
Syrian Telecentre Project – A Model for DevelopmentNabil Eid
The Syrian Telecentre Project aims to provide ICT access and training to rural communities in Syria to bridge the digital divide. It has established 58 telecentres across Syria since 2004. The telecentres offer services like internet access, computer training, and local content development. They serve over 50,000 people, including students, teachers, small businesses, and people with disabilities. The project follows a sustainable community development model, empowering local populations through services, skills training, and knowledge sharing. It has expanded to additional initiatives like mobile computer labs, school automation projects, and transforming telecentres into knowledge hubs for disadvantaged groups. Moving forward, the project seeks to continue developing ICT infrastructure and using it to improve lives across
1. The document summarizes efforts to establish a National Information Focal Unit (NIFU) in Morocco to coordinate information and knowledge management activities in support of agricultural research.
2. An initial meeting was held with representatives from five Moroccan research and training institutions to discuss launching a National Agricultural Research Information System and define a steering committee.
3. On-going projects initiated by the NIFU include implementing a new website and database to collect research output data, digitizing publications, and providing online resources and training to regional centers.
Invited presentation at UNESCO First Regional Latin American and Caribbean Consultation on Open Access to Scientific Information and Research
Kingston, Jamaica, 5-8 March 2013
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/news-and-in-focus-articles/all-news/news/first_regional_latin_american_and_caribbean_consultation_on_open_access_to_scientific_information_and_research/
This report summarizes the activities of the North African Sub Region RAIS/ICT Steering Committee at various levels:
1. At the sub-regional level, a meeting was held in Morocco to develop a common strategy for organizing research institutes and a proposal was prepared for an information system project but not submitted.
2. At the regional level, contacts were made with countries to share information on RAIS activities and collect data, but more support is needed from international centers.
3. At the national level in Morocco, advocacy efforts were made with decision makers and a national steering committee was formed to define a national agriculture information system plan.
4. At the institutional level, ongoing I
The document summarizes the formation and activities of the African Digital Library Support Network (ADLSN) which aims to facilitate access to local digital content in Africa through open source digital library software. It discusses how the network was established in 2004 and has since expanded to include national centers in multiple African countries that provide training and support. The ADLSN has helped create over 65 digital collections containing 20,000 items across Africa. It faces challenges like low technical skills and lack of infrastructure but makes recommendations like ensuring training reaches the right people and engaging library schools.
Supporting African Digital Library Projects: Experiences From The FieldAmos Kujenga
The document summarizes the formation and activities of the African Digital Library Support Network (ADLSN) which aims to facilitate access to local digital content in Africa through open source digital library software. It discusses how the network was established in 2004 and has since expanded to include national centers in multiple African countries that provide training and support. The ADLSN has helped create over 65 digital collections containing 20,000 items across Africa. It faces challenges like low technical skills and lack of infrastructure but makes recommendations like ensuring training reaches the right people and engaging library schools.
Syrian Telecentre Project – A Model for DevelopmentNabil Eid
The Syrian Telecentre Project aims to provide ICT access and training to rural communities in Syria to bridge the digital divide. It has established 58 telecentres across Syria since 2004. The telecentres offer services like internet access, computer training, and local content development. They serve over 50,000 people, including students, teachers, small businesses, and people with disabilities. The project follows a sustainable community development model, empowering local populations through services, skills training, and knowledge sharing. It has expanded to additional initiatives like mobile computer labs, school automation projects, and transforming telecentres into knowledge hubs for disadvantaged groups. Moving forward, the project seeks to continue developing ICT infrastructure and using it to improve lives across
WSIS+10 Reporting UNECA: A milestone in the access and diffusion of knowledge...Dr Lendy Spires
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa created a digital institutional repository to provide open access to its vast collection of publications and knowledge resources from the past 50+ years. Over 19,000 documents have been digitized and cataloged in the repository, which is accessed by over 200,000 users per month. The repository was developed using the Dspace platform and continues to be enhanced with new features like inclusion of multimedia and participation of subregional offices through replication. The project has helped preserve and provide global access to the institutional memory and knowledge generated by UNECA to support economic and social development in Africa.
The document discusses plans to create an Electronic Library for the East African Community (EAC). It describes establishing an information resource center in 1999 and initiatives to collect and disseminate EAC information. Phase I involved digitizing EAC reports from 2006-2010. Phase II will transform the center into a digital library by digitizing additional materials from EAC organs by 2016 through collaboration between EAC institutions. Challenges include lack of policies, funding, capacity and changing perspectives.
Kenya Agricultural Information Network (KAINet)iaaldafrika
PowerPoint presentation on KAINet presented at the IAALD Africa Chapter session at the Joint Conference of IAALD, AFITA and WCCA, 24 - 27 August 2008, Atsugi, Japan
The document discusses the establishment of regional information networks in Asia and the Pacific by UNESCO, including ASTINFO and its associated networks. It provides details on the objectives, infrastructure, activities and developments of ASTINFO and some of its specialized sub-networks such as APINMAP, INNERTAP, and APINESS. The networks aimed to strengthen information sharing, promote research, and support development across the region through coordinated activities between national and regional nodes.
This document summarizes a presentation about open science and data infrastructure in Africa. It discusses several large-scale scientific projects that generate massive amounts of data, such as the Square Kilometre Array telescope. It also profiles initiatives like H3ABioNet that aim to facilitate genomic research and data sharing across Africa. The presentation advocates for the development of an African Open Science Platform to help coordinate open science activities on the continent and promote policies around open data, research collaboration, and cyberinfrastructure. It outlines some focus areas and stakeholders in building out such a platform to support data-intensive research.
This document summarizes Meoli Kashorda's presentation on building and operating national research infrastructures in Kenya. It discusses Kenya's experience in building ICT services for research from 2013 to 2018, including establishing a national research cloud, identity services, and data storage. It also examines the demand for research services in Kenya, such as computing and videoconferencing. While progress has been made, challenges remain around funding scalable data storage and high performance computing, and increasing researcher awareness of open science practices. National research networks like KENET are well positioned to develop these infrastructures.
The document summarizes the landscape of open science in Africa based on a mapping conducted by the African Open Science Platform (AOSP). Some key findings include:
1) AOSP has compiled a register of Africa's data collections and services, key role players, potential partnerships, sources of content, and collaborations to inform its focus areas.
2) There are currently only 22 registered data repositories in Africa, with only one having the CoreTrustSeal for trusted data repositories. Challenges include lack of policies, incentives, skills, and coordination across the continent.
3) AOSP is working to address these challenges by developing open science policy frameworks, engaging stakeholders, building capacity through training programs, and coordin
UKOLN is a national centre of expertise in digital information management located at the University of Bath. This document provides an overview of UKOLN and the speaker, along with resources for digital preservation. It then outlines sources of additional information on topics like digitization planning, selection of materials, and ensuring long-term access. Suggested next steps include arming oneself with knowledge about demand, benefits, costs and long-term sustainability to inform discussions and approaches regarding digitization projects.
Preservation Issues:Other Sources of Information and Next StepsMarieke Guy
Preservation Issues:Other Sources of Information and Next Steps - presentation given by Marieke Guy, UKOLN at RLUK Approaches to Digitisation day at British Library, Wednesday 9th February 2011
Digital Preservation: Other Sources of InformationMarieke Guy
Digital Preservation: Other Sources of Information - talk given by Marieke Guy, UKOLN, at Approaches to Digitisation course run by Research Libraries UK at the British Library, Wednesday 9th February 2011.
The European life-science data infrastructure: Data, Computing and Services ...Rafael C. Jimenez
The document provides an update on the European Life Sciences Infrastructure for Biological Information (ELIXIR). ELIXIR aims to establish a distributed infrastructure to handle the growing volume of life science data. It coordinates several national nodes that provide bioinformatics resources and services. Key recent activities include establishing legal agreements with member states, developing a technical coordinator network, and running pilot projects to test solutions and foster collaboration between nodes. Moving forward, priorities include further establishing the infrastructure and community, providing visible and useful services to users, and ensuring sustainable data management.
Mr. Ben Wekalao Namande is a principal librarian at the Kenya National Archives and Documentation Service and is currently pursuing his PhD at Kenyatta University. The document discusses the Kenya National Archives' efforts to digitize over 680 million pages of records in order to preserve them and provide access. It describes the four phases of digitization undertaken so far, challenges faced like inadequate resources, and the requirements for building a digital collection and information center. The Kenya National Archives has partnered with other government organizations on cooperative digitization projects and aims to make the digitized information accessible online.
DELNET with passage of time and technological advancements not only widened its scope but has crossed the geographical boundaries. Presently, it is the major resource sharing library network in India connecting more than 5,900 libraries in 23 States and Union Territories in India and eight other countries.
The main objectives of DELNET is to promote resource sharing among the member-libraries by collecting, storing and disseminating information and by providing networked services to the researchers and scholars to supplement their research activity
KAINet began as a pilot project in 2006 and has expanded into a national agricultural information network in Kenya. The project was implemented in four phases: 1) Planning and consensus building, 2) Developing strategies, 3) Building capacity and institutional repositories, 4) Establishing the national repository and promoting KAINet. Key achievements include strengthened partnerships, development of five institutional repositories, and the creation of a framework and strategy to guide KAINet. Challenges included differing priorities between institutions and limited resources. Lessons learned highlight the importance of partnerships, planning, and knowledge sharing for sustainable information networks.
This presentation gives an oiverview of the Sci-GaIA project, in the context of the CHAIN-REDS workshop at EGI2015 (Lisbon).
Aspects covered are :
1. The Sci-GaIA project: facts, figures and bjectives
2. The legacy of other projects (ei4Africa and CHAIN-REDS
3. The Sci-GaIA work programme
Enhancing Access and Exchange of Agricultural Information in Kenya: the case ...iaaldafrika
Presentation made at the Second Conference of the IAALD Africa Chapter on the theme "Towards Opening Access to Information & Knowledge in the Agricultural Sciences and Technology in Africa" held at M Plaza Hotel, Accra, Ghana, 15th - 17th July 2009.
This document discusses cultural practice and conceptualizations of culture. It defines cultural practice as aesthetic forms created to provide pleasure, such as novels, art, and music. It describes conceptual containers as viewing culture as an abstract tool for elevating society, containing the greatest knowledge, creativity, and thought. The document also notes that in this view, culture becomes associated with a nation or state and is a source of identity.
The document discusses the OAU's failed digitization project from the 1990s. It outlines the initial plans to recruit staff, purchase equipment, and allocate a budget. However, it notes that no comprehensive strategy was put in place, there was a lack of organizational ownership, and no monitoring or evaluation of the project. Consultants completed their work but the project was ultimately abandoned with the archives staff leaving and equipment discarded. The digitization efforts were unsuccessful with nothing remaining today.
WSIS+10 Reporting UNECA: A milestone in the access and diffusion of knowledge...Dr Lendy Spires
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa created a digital institutional repository to provide open access to its vast collection of publications and knowledge resources from the past 50+ years. Over 19,000 documents have been digitized and cataloged in the repository, which is accessed by over 200,000 users per month. The repository was developed using the Dspace platform and continues to be enhanced with new features like inclusion of multimedia and participation of subregional offices through replication. The project has helped preserve and provide global access to the institutional memory and knowledge generated by UNECA to support economic and social development in Africa.
The document discusses plans to create an Electronic Library for the East African Community (EAC). It describes establishing an information resource center in 1999 and initiatives to collect and disseminate EAC information. Phase I involved digitizing EAC reports from 2006-2010. Phase II will transform the center into a digital library by digitizing additional materials from EAC organs by 2016 through collaboration between EAC institutions. Challenges include lack of policies, funding, capacity and changing perspectives.
Kenya Agricultural Information Network (KAINet)iaaldafrika
PowerPoint presentation on KAINet presented at the IAALD Africa Chapter session at the Joint Conference of IAALD, AFITA and WCCA, 24 - 27 August 2008, Atsugi, Japan
The document discusses the establishment of regional information networks in Asia and the Pacific by UNESCO, including ASTINFO and its associated networks. It provides details on the objectives, infrastructure, activities and developments of ASTINFO and some of its specialized sub-networks such as APINMAP, INNERTAP, and APINESS. The networks aimed to strengthen information sharing, promote research, and support development across the region through coordinated activities between national and regional nodes.
This document summarizes a presentation about open science and data infrastructure in Africa. It discusses several large-scale scientific projects that generate massive amounts of data, such as the Square Kilometre Array telescope. It also profiles initiatives like H3ABioNet that aim to facilitate genomic research and data sharing across Africa. The presentation advocates for the development of an African Open Science Platform to help coordinate open science activities on the continent and promote policies around open data, research collaboration, and cyberinfrastructure. It outlines some focus areas and stakeholders in building out such a platform to support data-intensive research.
This document summarizes Meoli Kashorda's presentation on building and operating national research infrastructures in Kenya. It discusses Kenya's experience in building ICT services for research from 2013 to 2018, including establishing a national research cloud, identity services, and data storage. It also examines the demand for research services in Kenya, such as computing and videoconferencing. While progress has been made, challenges remain around funding scalable data storage and high performance computing, and increasing researcher awareness of open science practices. National research networks like KENET are well positioned to develop these infrastructures.
The document summarizes the landscape of open science in Africa based on a mapping conducted by the African Open Science Platform (AOSP). Some key findings include:
1) AOSP has compiled a register of Africa's data collections and services, key role players, potential partnerships, sources of content, and collaborations to inform its focus areas.
2) There are currently only 22 registered data repositories in Africa, with only one having the CoreTrustSeal for trusted data repositories. Challenges include lack of policies, incentives, skills, and coordination across the continent.
3) AOSP is working to address these challenges by developing open science policy frameworks, engaging stakeholders, building capacity through training programs, and coordin
UKOLN is a national centre of expertise in digital information management located at the University of Bath. This document provides an overview of UKOLN and the speaker, along with resources for digital preservation. It then outlines sources of additional information on topics like digitization planning, selection of materials, and ensuring long-term access. Suggested next steps include arming oneself with knowledge about demand, benefits, costs and long-term sustainability to inform discussions and approaches regarding digitization projects.
Preservation Issues:Other Sources of Information and Next StepsMarieke Guy
Preservation Issues:Other Sources of Information and Next Steps - presentation given by Marieke Guy, UKOLN at RLUK Approaches to Digitisation day at British Library, Wednesday 9th February 2011
Digital Preservation: Other Sources of InformationMarieke Guy
Digital Preservation: Other Sources of Information - talk given by Marieke Guy, UKOLN, at Approaches to Digitisation course run by Research Libraries UK at the British Library, Wednesday 9th February 2011.
The European life-science data infrastructure: Data, Computing and Services ...Rafael C. Jimenez
The document provides an update on the European Life Sciences Infrastructure for Biological Information (ELIXIR). ELIXIR aims to establish a distributed infrastructure to handle the growing volume of life science data. It coordinates several national nodes that provide bioinformatics resources and services. Key recent activities include establishing legal agreements with member states, developing a technical coordinator network, and running pilot projects to test solutions and foster collaboration between nodes. Moving forward, priorities include further establishing the infrastructure and community, providing visible and useful services to users, and ensuring sustainable data management.
Mr. Ben Wekalao Namande is a principal librarian at the Kenya National Archives and Documentation Service and is currently pursuing his PhD at Kenyatta University. The document discusses the Kenya National Archives' efforts to digitize over 680 million pages of records in order to preserve them and provide access. It describes the four phases of digitization undertaken so far, challenges faced like inadequate resources, and the requirements for building a digital collection and information center. The Kenya National Archives has partnered with other government organizations on cooperative digitization projects and aims to make the digitized information accessible online.
DELNET with passage of time and technological advancements not only widened its scope but has crossed the geographical boundaries. Presently, it is the major resource sharing library network in India connecting more than 5,900 libraries in 23 States and Union Territories in India and eight other countries.
The main objectives of DELNET is to promote resource sharing among the member-libraries by collecting, storing and disseminating information and by providing networked services to the researchers and scholars to supplement their research activity
KAINet began as a pilot project in 2006 and has expanded into a national agricultural information network in Kenya. The project was implemented in four phases: 1) Planning and consensus building, 2) Developing strategies, 3) Building capacity and institutional repositories, 4) Establishing the national repository and promoting KAINet. Key achievements include strengthened partnerships, development of five institutional repositories, and the creation of a framework and strategy to guide KAINet. Challenges included differing priorities between institutions and limited resources. Lessons learned highlight the importance of partnerships, planning, and knowledge sharing for sustainable information networks.
This presentation gives an oiverview of the Sci-GaIA project, in the context of the CHAIN-REDS workshop at EGI2015 (Lisbon).
Aspects covered are :
1. The Sci-GaIA project: facts, figures and bjectives
2. The legacy of other projects (ei4Africa and CHAIN-REDS
3. The Sci-GaIA work programme
Enhancing Access and Exchange of Agricultural Information in Kenya: the case ...iaaldafrika
Presentation made at the Second Conference of the IAALD Africa Chapter on the theme "Towards Opening Access to Information & Knowledge in the Agricultural Sciences and Technology in Africa" held at M Plaza Hotel, Accra, Ghana, 15th - 17th July 2009.
This document discusses cultural practice and conceptualizations of culture. It defines cultural practice as aesthetic forms created to provide pleasure, such as novels, art, and music. It describes conceptual containers as viewing culture as an abstract tool for elevating society, containing the greatest knowledge, creativity, and thought. The document also notes that in this view, culture becomes associated with a nation or state and is a source of identity.
The document discusses the OAU's failed digitization project from the 1990s. It outlines the initial plans to recruit staff, purchase equipment, and allocate a budget. However, it notes that no comprehensive strategy was put in place, there was a lack of organizational ownership, and no monitoring or evaluation of the project. Consultants completed their work but the project was ultimately abandoned with the archives staff leaving and equipment discarded. The digitization efforts were unsuccessful with nothing remaining today.
The document summarizes key points from a presentation on developing principles to guide the long-term management and preservation of digital heritage collections. It discusses the need to plan for hundreds of years into the future when making decisions around digitization. Examples of proposed principles include selecting standards to enhance interoperability, embedding semantics and context into digitized objects, engaging communities as custodians of heritage, and accounting for diversity in digital repositories. The document concludes by stating that universal principles should guide strategies and decisions in a way that is timeless.
This document summarizes digitization and digital preservation activities at Addis Ababa University. It outlines the university's Electronic Theses and Dissertations Repository, digitization of museum collections, mass digitization of library collections, digitization of local journals and ancient manuscripts. It notes challenges like lack of standards and centralized management. It then introduces a new Digital Projects Centre initiative between the university library, schools and research centre to conduct digitization projects, develop instructional resources, implement repository management and define policies to support digital content creation and access.
This document summarizes digitization and digital preservation activities at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia. It outlines the university's Electronic Theses and Dissertations Repository, digitization of museum collections, mass digitization of library collections, digitization of local journals and ancient manuscripts. It describes challenges like lack of standards and a central digital projects center is proposed to coordinate activities, conduct digitization, develop instructional resources, and implement a digital repository.
This document discusses challenges and opportunities for developing sustainable capacity for digitizing archival collections in South Africa. It identifies challenges like lack of infrastructure, funding, and skills. It advocates for a "factory model" of optimized mass digitization. Partnerships are needed between archives, publishers, and the National Archives to develop standards and share training. Grant funding models should be reexamined and conditions negotiated to build long-term infrastructure. The document proposes engaging local communities through nonprofit digitization services to build capacity while providing economic opportunities for youth.
The World Digital Library is a website that provides free access to primary sources from cultures around the world. It was proposed in 2005 and launched in 2009. The WDL aims to share knowledge globally by assisting countries in digitization efforts, encouraging digitization in areas with little digital content, and facilitating cooperation between experienced and new institutions. It is governed by a charter and council, and has over 17 million visitors and 113 million pages viewed since its 2009 launch.
This document discusses cultural practice and conceptualizations of culture. It defines cultural practice as aesthetic forms created to provide pleasure, such as novels, art, and music. It describes conceptual containers as viewing culture as an abstract tool for elevating society, containing the greatest knowledge, creativity, and thought. The document also notes that in this view, culture becomes associated with a nation or state and is a source of identity.
Springer book archives icadla 2 - richard bennett - presentationJohannes Phaladi
Springer has created a large Book Archives digitization project containing over 100,000 of their historic book titles dating back to the 1840s. They have taken great care to digitize the books to high quality standards, extract thorough metadata for discoverability, and acquire electronic distribution rights from authors and copyright holders. The digitized book archive will help preserve valuable scholarly content and make it accessible online through SpringerLink and other platforms.
This document discusses the creation of digital library collections in Malawi, outlining efforts to increase access to electronic information in Africa, the status of libraries in Malawi, existing digital collections, and challenges. Key points include:
- Over a dozen digital collections have been created in Malawi using software like Greenstone and are accessible via intranets or CD-ROMs.
- The African Digital Library Support Network provides training and support for digital libraries.
- Challenges to creating more collections include a lack of scanning equipment and servers with sufficient storage capacity.
Mr. Ben Wekalao Namande is a Principal Librarian at the Kenya National Archives and Documentation Service and is currently pursuing his PhD at Kenyatta University. The document discusses the Kenya National Archives' efforts to digitize over 680 million pages of records to ensure long-term preservation and access. It describes the four-phase digitization process undertaken so far, challenges faced including lack of resources, and the goal of making records available online. Requirements for developing a digital information center are outlined, including technical infrastructure, trained staff, and software.
The document summarizes the challenges faced by the GreyLit Project, an international cooperative effort between the University of the Witwatersrand's Health Sciences Library (WHSL) and the New York Academy of Medicine Library, in managing grey literature resources. It discusses issues around the "findability" and credibility of grey literature due to its non-conventional publishing channels. It also outlines opportunities for WHSL through partnerships, technological capabilities, and staff reskilling to better capture and provide access to African grey literature.
The document discusses resource mobilization and capacity development for digitization efforts. It notes that current digitization situations lack dedicated sections, training, and sustainability plans. Challenges include a lack of funding, low prioritization, and failed projects discouraging further efforts. To address this, the document recommends identifying clear benefits of digitization, ensuring institutional commitment through aligned strategies, and forming partnerships to share resources and collaborate. It suggests conducting needs assessments and environmental scans to mobilize resources and foster long-term planning and capacity for sustainable digitization.
The document discusses the digital future of scientific and technological information in Sudan's research community. It notes that Sudan has a rich heritage of ancient science and traditional knowledge but faces a knowledge gap. The document examines information and communication technologies in Sudan, the scientific research community, and scientific and technological information. It provides recommendations to improve access to digital information resources.
The document discusses the OAU's failed digitization project from the 1990s. It outlines the initial plans to recruit staff, purchase equipment, and allocate a budget. However, it notes that no clear strategy was put in place for resource mobilization. The project relied heavily on consultants and lacked ownership and oversight from the organization. After the consultants completed their work, the project effectively ended without being integrated into the archives department. No aspects of the digitization efforts remain today.
The document discusses the African Journals Online (AJO) project, which digitizes and provides open access to African scholarly journals. It began in 2000 with 325 South African journals available online through www.ajarchive.org. By 2011, the site contained 325 journals and over 145,000 full-text articles. The project was later expanded to create the African Journal Archive containing 119 additional journals. It describes the process of selecting journals, digitizing content, developing agreements with publishers, and building a sustainable business model to support open access to scholarly work from Africa.
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ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 42001, and GDPR: Best Practices for Implementation and...PECB
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1. UNECA
Capacity building activities on Open Access:
the United Nations Economic Commission for
Africa Perspective
Ms. Irene Onyancha
Chief, Library and Information Management Services
ICT, Science and Technology Division (ISTD)
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
2. ECA
Outline
Context – ECA’s vision and programmes
Focus on ICT, Science and Technology Division (ISTD)
Open Access activities at ECA
Open Access Publishing – ECA Institutional Repository
Development of E-learning & Open Educational Resources
Open Access to GeoData & information
Modalities of support to member states
Access Scientific and Socio-economic Information in Africa
(ASKIA) programme
Lessons Learnt
3. ECA
ECA’s mandate & vision
The Economic Commission of Africa:
established 1958
one of the UN Secretariat's five regional commissions
5 Sub-Regional Offices (SROs): Morocco, Niger, Rwanda,
Zambia & Cameroon
to promote economic and social development, foster intra-regional
integration, and promote international cooperation for Africa's
development
4. ECA
ECA’s Work Programme
•Regional Integration, Trade and Infrastructure
•Meeting the MDGs
Focus on: •Promote good governance & popular participation
•ICTs, Science and Technology for Development
•Statistics and Statistical Development
Responsible for:
• United Nations programme on “harnessing
information for development”;
ICT, S&T • Is an integrated information service:
Division • to promote accessibility & availability of quality
information on African development
• To assist member states build national capacities
in the use of ICTs for development
5. ECA
ICT, Science & Technology Division (ISTD)..
Work programme in 4 strategic areas of intervention:
Promoting ICTs for development and implementing the African
Information Society Initiative (AISI);
Promoting science and technology for development;
Strengthening geographic information for sustainable development
Knowledge, Library and Information Management services
ISTD provides these services at 2 levels:
to the Commission
to member states
6. ECA
Publishing at ECA
ECA’s knowledge is presented in:
Flagship publications
Conference proceedings, Resolutions & Speeches
Technical publications, policy briefs, mission reports,
annual reports, working papers et.
other grey literature
all which outline important research or decisions that have been
made on the economic and social developmental aspects in Africa
7. ECA
The status of ECA publications 3 years ago
Staff computers
Divisional Collections
Library basement
Electronic copies
ECA Web sites
Library shelves
Catalogued collection
ECA publications
8. ECA
The ECA Institutional Repository
ECA IR
Established in 2009:
..is an electronic publishing means for
collecting, managing and preserving the
institutional memory of ECA. It offers tim
dissemination of this wealth of knowledg
outlining important socio- economic
research and decisions made on africa…
Highly customized to provide value added services
17, 0000 metadata records & 10,000 digital files
Project on going and will be adding multimedia
9. ECA
Implementing the ECA IR
Project activities
Preliminary activities
Workflow
Collection development (including digitization)
Online platform development
Communities and collections development
Importing MARC21 metadata records into the a Dspace IR
with qualified Dublin Core
Uploading digital files
11. ECA
Accessing content in the ECA IR
Searching
Simple Search
Advanced search using the AGRIS AP metadata (qualified DC)
Subject search
Browsing
Dspace features (title, date & Communities and collections)
Subject keyword browse (UNBIS thesaurus)
Thematic collections of ECA conferences & Flagship publications
Harvesting
OAI-PMH (simple DC)
Expose metadata using AGRIS AP (qualified DC) for specialized
harvesters
12. ECA
The ECA IR: impact
80,000 hits/month Top 10 countries include: USA, SA,
Nigeria
13. ECA
The ECA IR: Lessons Learnt
Migration of data from and existing systems to IR software
i.e. Dspace
Use of qualified Dublin Core metadata set for data input and
harvesting from Dspace software
Integration of controlled vocabularies for data entry and
value added services e.g. subject search & browse
Good project documents needed for fund raising
Poor internet connectivity across Africa is a big challenge
to access ECA IR resources
Level of funding very important in determining project
achievements in a given period.
14. ECA
Other Open Access activities
Open Educations Resources & E-learning
Open Access to Geo-information
15. ECA
Open Access Education Resources (OER) & E-learning
Academy of ICT Essentials for Government Leaders in Africa
8 Modules on ICT4D topics including; ICT policies, e-government,
network security, ICT trends:
3 new modules are planned as follows:
Open Access to GeoData
Online Metadata Clearinghouse Registry Services
ECA offers “country spaces” for hosting of metadata clearinghouse
nodes at http://geoinfo.uneca.org:8080/geonetwork
Development of interoperability standards for datasets
to promote open geodata architecture for mutual and remote access to
geodata and geo services. http://www.uneca.org/istd/default.htm
Development of data sharing policies
Policy & guidelines development during the biennium 2012-2013 period
Setting up policies at Regional (ARSDI) and National (NSDI) levels
16. ECA
Open Access Resources: OER & E-learning
can e-learning initiative (http://www.uneca.org/elearna
17. ECA
Support to member states
Dual role as regional arm of the UN & part of the
regional institutional landscape
Provides a vantage position to harness resources and make unique
contribution to assist member States' efforts to address their
development challenges
18. ECA
Modalities and services to support member states include:
Policy analysis and advocacy
formulation of national ICT policies, commonly known as NICIs
• Over 43 countries had adopted their NICIs by end of 2010,
• On going implementation of sectoral strategies in key priority
sectors
facilitate implementation of the WSIS Geneva declaration on Open
Access in Africa
Enhancing Partnerships
based on comparative advantage and pooling of resources
Examples:
• Govt of Finland: Technology in Government Awards
• Carnegie Foundation & IFLA for ICADLA conference in 2009
19. ECA
Technical Assistance through
on-demand regional advisory services
training workshops and seminars
fellowship and internship programmes
Communication and Knowledge sharing
CoP platforms: Teamworks knowledge sharing platform in
partnership with UNDP
E-learning platform: http://www.uneca.org/elearnafrica
Statutory meetings
Committee on Development Information Science and Technology-CODIST
• Brings together experts, policy makers, researchers from members
states
• KLIS reinstated as a Committee of CODIST in CODIST-II meeting
• Pre-event workshop activities
20. ECA
ASKIA Programme
Promoting access to knowledge in
Africa
Access to Scientific/Socio-economic Knowledge in Africa
(ASKIA) Initiative:
defines a framework for bringing together a variety of scientific and socio-
economic and associated information to the African scientific community;
Identifies 5 strategic areas of intervention working in synergy for a common
goal;
Is an implementation programme for the African Virtual Libraries
Information Network (AVLIN) established by member states/ECA at the
CODI meeting
21. ECA
Strategic intervention 1
• a one stop shop to all knowledge
types from/on Africa
ASKIA Online portal • contextualized access to information
services
• Biblios, maps, news, stat. data etc.
Using a Web Content Management System (Web 2).
Hosting: ASKIA Federated Search Engine, CoPs for Library and
information Managers; E-Forums; RSS feeds for news and events on
science and socio-economic development issues; Directories of African
scientists and researchers etc.; IM tools & standards Databases; the ASKIA
blog etc.
Status of the activity:
Under development at the ECA Library
22. ECA
Strategic intervention 2
• facilitate the collation of different
knowledge types on/from Africa
ASKIA Federated
Search • facilitates discovery, access to free and
subscribed information resources
• through a single search
Different competing online sources Bioline, BMC,DOAJ, PMC, AJOL, Scirus,
Research4Life, Google etc.
single search across Open Access and commercial knowledge sources
contextual rendering of content in one view to bibliographies, geo-data,
news, blogs, etc.
Status of the activity:
Funds acquired and proessional services under procurement
25. ECA
Strategic intervention 3
• access to thousands of maps at the
Repository on African ECA Library and nationals libraries
maps & geodata
• Input to google maps
formerly the Map Reference Section of the Cartography and Remote
Sensing Unit at ECA
comprising of topographical maps, soil survey maps, geologic bedrock
an invaluable historical record
Developed through member states contributions and purchased
materials.
Status of the activity:
Funds to be raised
26. ECA
Strategic intervention 4
• Values added services e.g.
theses and dissertations
Knowledge hub &
country profiles: news, maps, biblos etc.
information services
• New emerging technologies for information
delivery
Wider dissemination of ECA knowledge
Mirrors of the ECA IR at the ECA Sub Regional Offices
Mirrors of the ECA IR at the United Nations Depository Libraries across Africa
Status of the activity:
Professional services & equipment under procurement
Services delivery using new emerging technologies:
e.g Social media
mobile technology proliferation in Africa
27. ECA
Strategic intervention 5
• partnerships with donors for funding
• training in IM standards and tools
Strengthening member • fellowships and internships
states capacities to
• digitization equipments
document local knowledge
Use different business models for capacity building activities:
Hosted services e.g. In partnership with partners e.g. by Biomed Central:
• relatively high cost of infrastructure development to set up repositories
• lack of required skills and technical know-how to set-up and maintain the IR
• immediate availability and visibility of IR online
Other models of technical assistance:
• Training workshops
• Project funding
• Purchase of digitization equipments
Vision: Every knowledge generating institution must have a repository
28. ECA
Service A Service B Service C
Service D
Country Specific Media stories on
University Theses Maps, Media, Documents African development Digital Maps
of Africa
ASKIA Online Platform Community Corner
•Members information
ASKIA •E-forums
Tools & standards
Federated •Blog- Best practices
Search •RSS feeds
E-Learning
Data Harvester
E-Registries
CoPs
Scientific DATAD/
E- Maps &
WWW Databases E-Journals Library Research ASKIA
Directories Geo Data
OPACs 4Life
Information Resources on the Internet
ASKIA: http://www.uneca.org/askia University University
A B
29. ECA
Lessons Learnt
Need to share best practices on IR development between
member states libraries;
Need to bring coherence in various Open Access & KM activities
across the continent;
Development partners and organizations need to assess
comparative advantages and pool resources to support OA, KM
activities;
Poor internet connectivity poses a challenge to ECA knowledge
access – replication of IR at SROs & UN Depository Libraries;
Need to incorporate sustainability strategies in project planning
and implementation;
Good project planning is critical in the implementation of OA
activities in the African Libraries given the limited funds