African can ensure sustainable development through knowledge sharing

"Professor Olugbemiro Jegede, Secretary General of the Association of African Universities (AAU) on Tuesday stated that Africa cannot attain sustainable development without access to knowledge and information sharing....Prof. Jegede was speaking at a two-day workshop on Open Access....jointly organized by AAU and the Research Libraries in Ghana (CARLIGH) with support from the Royal Tropical Institute of the Netherlands...to help create awareness on Open Access Institutional Repositories and its benefits to researchers, institutions and the various countries. It also aims at boosting significantly the economic, social and educational benefits of making research output available without financial, legal and technical barriers to access...."