Day 18: DIY sanitizer
University and research institute labs around the world have repurposed their inventory and skills set to produce self-made sanitizers. Here […]
Africa’s Largest Open Data & Civic Technology Network Partners with Continental Digital Archive for Scientific Research to Mitigate COVID-19
UPDATE as of May 11, 2020: Amicable ending of the collaboration between CfA and AfricArXiv After careful consideration and discussion
Harnessing the Open Science infrastructure for an efficient African response to COVID-19 [preprint]
Cite as: Havemann, Jo, Bezuidenhout, Louise, Achampong, Joyce, Akligoh, Harry, Ayodele, Obasegun, Hussein, Shaukatali, … Wenzelmann, Victoria. (2020). Harnessing the
Harnessing the Open Science infrastructure for an efficient African response to COVID-19 [preprint]
With the current coronavirus pandemic, the urgent need for Open Access to research results will increase scientific public domain knowledge to COVID-19 related literature hence enabling African researchers to develop African-centered solutions towards combating the SARS-CoV 2 virus, while at the same time strengthening the local biomedical resources of African countries and increasing their preparedness for future outbreaks. This applies to both global and regional levels. Previous virus outbreaks, such as the recent Western African Ebola and Zika epidemics, …
African Digital Research Repositories: Mapping the Landscape
The International African Institute (IAI, https://www.internationalafricaninstitute.org) in collaboration with AfricarXiv (https://info.africarxiv.org) present an interactive map of African digital research literature repositories. This drew from IAI’s earlier work from 2016 onwards to identify and list Africa-based institutional repositories that focused on identifying repositories based in African university libraries. Our earlier resources are available at https://www.internationalafricaninstitute.org/repositories.
African Digital Research Repositories: Mapping the Landscape
View this project on Github: Authors & Contributors in alphabetical orderBezuidenhout, Louise, Havemann, Jo, Kitchen, Stephanie, De Mutiis, Anna, &
TCC Africa offering online trainings
Training Centre in Communication has started offering courses online. Ms. Joy Owango, the Executive Director commented that This was part
Day 11: Multilingual COVID-19 Information Videos
There is a lot of information circulating about COVID-19 – some more reliable than others. For many individuals, it is
Day 10: Mapping the COVID-19 global response
COVID-19 relevant information and resources by country License: CC-0 Click on individual nodes and view information by country info hotlines
Q&A around COVID-19 in regional African languages
Dissemination of information about best practices and behavioral suggestions to reduce the spread of the coronavirus is provided mostly in