Newsletter • Week 50/2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of our newsletter! We are a training and consulting organization for globally inclusive research and […]
Global Research Equity
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
Research Integrity & Open Science for African Scholars
Discussing the ethical and integrity-related aspects of Open Science at this BEACON webinar was a great pleasure. The event was organised by Africa Bioethics Network’s marvellous Mercury Shitindo and Umazi Munyikah. I was equally honored to be able to co-present with Professor Walter Jaoko from the University of Nairobi.
Identifiers and Inequality: Reassessing PIDs Through a Global Equity Lens
Sergio Santamarina works as a librarian at a public university in Argentina, and has a focus on open science practices and challenges in Latin America. Together with Jo, he explores issues around open access publishing requirements, the cost barriers for obtaining Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) in Latin American universities, and the importance of decentralized networks and persistent identifiers in research.
Critical turning point for HE and research globally as USAID is being shut down
As highlighted in two University World News articles last week, the shutdown of USAID represents a critical turning point for higher education and research globally, with profound implications for research innovation, educational access, and international collaboration. We, i.e. the international higher education and research community, can take several steps to mitigate the impact of USAID’s shutdown:
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 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
Neuroscience for all: building global research capacity
As part of the IBRO World Congress 2023 (9-13 September – Granada, Spain), the ALBA Network and the IBRO Early Career Committee partnered to facilitate a wide-ranging discussion of what neuroscientists can do as a community to build research capacity in the Global South, and how this increase in local capacities for research and innovation can, in the broader picture, bring benefits to us all.
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