#scholarAfrica Workshop: How to Catch Up

~ Ernesto Priego
Group photo of participants of theDiscoverability Workshop: Nairobi, 10-11 March 2014
Group photo of participants of the Discoverability Workshop: Nairobi, 10-11 March 2014.       Can you spot the Mexican? ;-)

I had the privilege of participating in the Discoverability of African Scholarship Online workshop that took place in Nairobi, Kenya on 10-11 March 2014. It was organised by the OpenUCT Initiative and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

I am now back in London and already missing Kenya. There are many ways of catching up with what happened.

Most of the decks of slides from the presentations have been now added to the “Africa e-Science Commons” collection created by Bruce Becker on Zenodo (log in required but it’s easy, quick and free to register).

I am also putting together a fileset that will be uploaded to figshare as soon as possible.

On the way back from Nairobi I transcribed and uploaded as a text file some of the notes produced by the workshop participants and is available through the following DOI on fighsare: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.958929

You can also explore the live (while the Google spreadsheet allows) #scholarAfrica interactive tweets archive here.

The Facebook page of the OpenUCT Initiative (University of Cape Town, South Africa) also has some pictures of the event here (no Facebook login required).

You can make a difference to tackle the inequality in visibility and recognition of African research. Please help increasing the visibility of the work done by African scholars by sharing and attributing their resources online.

Published by Ernesto Priego

I'm a lecturer, researcher and editor. I'm interested in many things and do work in many areas. I'm into human-computer interaction design, digital humanities, comics studies, scholarly communications, open access, open data, ethics, public health, politics, media, journalism, human rights. You can follow me on Twitter @ernestopriego.