This document discusses initiatives for an African Open Science Platform to support open data and data infrastructure across Africa. It lists existing data centers and computing centers in various African countries, as well as international collaborations and challenges around policy, funding, internet access, data storage, computer infrastructure, skills, and awareness. The platform aims to address these challenges and support open data and data-driven research on the continent.

1. The African Open Science Platform
Policy | Infrastructure | Skills | Incentives
Presented by Ina Smith
@ismonet ina@assaf.org.za

2. Tunisia
Data Computing Centre el Khawarizmi
Kenya
Data Centre & Services @ Research & Education
Network (KENET)
SouthAfrica
DIRISA, Data Intensive Research Cloud
Infrastructure Initiatives – ARC, SADIRC, Ilifu
High PerformanceComputing Centres
Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, SA, Tanzania,
Zambia, Zimbabwe
OpenDatafor Africa
African Development Bank
Initiatives,HPCCs,Services

3. Square
Kilometre
Array
H3ABioNet
Genomics
Data
GBIF
Biodiversity
Data
InternationalCollaborations

4. ICTInfrastructure ASREN
WACREN UbuntuNet

5. Challenges
Policy &
IP
Government
Funding
Power
Supply
Slow &
Unstable
Internet
No Central
Data
Storage
Obsolete
Computer
Infrastructure
Trust &
Awareness
Skills

6. Join us in Botswana!
http://africanopenscience.org.za/
ina@assaf.org.za
The African Open Science Platform Project is an
outcome of the
Accord on Open Data in a Big Data World
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