Newsletter • Week 48/2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of our newsletter! We are a training and consulting organization for globally inclusive research and science […]
AfricArXiv
UbuntuNet Alliance Awarded IOI Grant to Strengthen Open Institutional Repositories Across Eastern and Southern Africa
Big news for our community! We are proud to see this impactful development in strengthening Open Institutional Repositories across Eastern
AfricArXiv Open Science Webinar Series: A Year in Review
AfricArXiv, a free digital archive for African research, has played a pivotal role in advancing open science on the continent. Established in 2018 and hosted by UbuntuNet Alliance since 2023, the platform is being tailored towards meeting the needs of African researchers, leveraging the Alliance’s extensive network.
Open Science workshop in Zambia
We were enormously honored to deliver a workshop on Open Science, Open Data and Open Repositories to librarians at the 2024 Zambia Research and Education Network (ZAMREN) Week & Annual General Meeting.
Open Science session in Kenya for SGCI-funded researchers
Last week, the National Research Fund Kenya hosted the ‘Science Granting Councils Initiative 2023 Annual Forum and Global Research Council
Open Science workshop for Librarians
UbuntuNet Alliance under the AfricaConnect3 project invited 20 librarians to participate in a one-day Open Science training session a day before the UbuntuNet Connect 2023 Conference.
AfricArXiv, Diamond Open Access, Sustainability & Funding
Presentation held at the II DIAMOND OPEN ACCESS CONFERENCE, October 25 – 26, 2023. Toluca, Mexico
SDG indicator codes as metadata in institutional repositories and scholarly indexing systems
To encourage scholarly publishing venues and research institutions to adopt the SDG indicator taxonomy for solution-oriented research output that allows for direct application to societal and environmental interventions to mitigate climate change, forced migration, war and conflict, and other existential crises of our times.
Sustainability, Research, and Innovation – the Open Science panel at the SRI Africa Satellite event
At the #SRI2023 Africa satellite event, Dr Jo Havemann contributed to the Open Science panel that was organised by the
Toward Global Research Equity from an African perspective – A conversation with Joy Owango
Joy Owango is the executive director of TCC Africa, the Training Center in Communication, based in Kenya and serving the