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North and South join forces to promote Open Science in Africa

Projects, Sci-GAIA, Stories / By / September 7, 2017

The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) in Kenya and the Eko-Konnect Research and Education Initiative in Nigeria are among the very first organizations in Africa to begin use of DataCite Digital Object Identifier (DOI) prefixes. The partnership with the Sci-GaIA project and the Conference of Italian University Rectors will help the research organizations …

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Sci-GaIA’s 6th workshop on “e-Infrastructures and Open Science in support of Public Health slated for February 2017

Projects, Sci-GAIA, Stories / By / September 6, 2017

The 6th workshop of the EU-funded Sci-GaIA project on “e-Infrastructures and Open Science in support of Public Health” will be held on the 8th of February 2017 at the Conference Centre of the Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya. The workshop is hosted by the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology of the Kenyatta University, which …

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Sci-GaIA assessing implementation and uptake of science gateways and e-Infrastructure

Sci-GAIA / By / September 21, 2016

One the three Horizon 2020 projects, Sci-GaIA, has launched an online survey aimed at assessing the implementation and uptake of science gateways and e-infrastructure in Africa. The online survey, whose results will be updated every six months, also aims at identifying current and planned e-infrastructure Applications such as HPC, Grid, Cloud Computing, Data Repositories, and …

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WACREN annual conference brings MAGIC, TANDEM and Sci-GaIA Projects under one roof

MAGIC, Sci-GAIA, TANDEM, WACREN / By / September 22, 2016

A second joint TANDEM, MAGIC and Sci-GaIA workshop on ‘Promotion of Open Science in Africa’ was  held in Senegal, Dakar on March 15, 2016. The workshop came as  one of the pre-conference events of the second annual conference of West African Countries Research and Education Network (WACREN) which held on 17-18 March 2016 under the …

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