Open science practices in Africa | EIFL

Posted by Iryna Kuchma, Open Access Programme Manager, July 14, 2020 June was a busy month for the LIBSENSE Initiative - a collaborative space through which libraries and research and education networks (RENs) are advancing open access and open science in Africa. At a LIBSENSE virtual workshop co-organized by LIBSENSE partners, EIFL, the West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN), UbuntuNet Alliance, the Arab States Regional Education Network (ASREN), COAR, AfricaConnect 3, OpenAIRE and GÉANT, we took a snapshot of the current national level activities on open science policies, repositories, community building and coordination in 15 countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia and Uganda (slides). [...]