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Brokerage Event Towards a FAIR Compliant Commons in the ASREN Region - Experience from Ethiopia
Get PDFThis presentation describes experiences from Ethiopia in the framework of the Brokerage Event Towards a FAIR Compliant Commons in the ASREN Region, which is part of the program of the 16th International Open Repositories Conference (OR2021)
The Importance of Engineering and Technology in Nation Building: The Role of Public and Private Sector
Get PDFThis presentation was presented at the SIU Annual Multidisciplinary Academic Conference 2021 at Safari Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia on 23 June 2021
Brokerage Event Towards a FAIR Compliant Commons in the ASREN Region - The Somalia Experience
Get PDFLike many other countries in Africa, Somalia suffers from a gap with respect to other countries in the world for what concerns openness of research and visibility of research outputs. Research outputs produced by local universities and research institutions are not adequately showcased to interested communities and citizens outside academic institutions and this has negatively branded the local institutions as in-competent to produce any form of research contents. As an example, printed copies of students' theses and dissertations are usually archived inside the university and nobody is basically able to see them after the defending day.
In order to overcome this problem and bridge the above-mentioned gaps, the Somali National Research and Education Network (SomaliREN), which gathers 20 universities and research institutions from all over the country, is developing a program based on three strategic pillars: connectivity, community, and content. Under the latter, SomaliREN has launched an initiative to deploy a centralized open access multi-institutional digital repository, and the Somali Research and Education Repository (SORER) has recently come online
National thesis repository of Morocco_ Opportunities and challenges toward a FAIR compliance
Get PDFA presentation about the National Thesis Repository of Morocco TOUBKAL, hosted and managed by the the Moroccan Institute of Scientific and technical Information IMIST of the National Center of Scientific and Technical Research. the presentation focus on the challenges and opportunities for a path to a FAIR compliance of TOUBKAL
Experiences of/with Open Access Policies and Governance Models of FAIR Compliant National Repositories - The Case of Ethiopia
Get PDFThis presentation has been given at the Brokerage Event Towards a FAIR Compliant Commons in the ASREN Region, which is part of the program of the 16th International Open Repositories Conference (OR2021). The outline of the presentation is the following:
Introduction
Objectives
Definitions: Governance, Ownership of Data & Information, Leadership
Standards & Principles of Information & Data Quality Management
Comparing the Usefulness of FAIR Principles for Data Governance
Governance and Leadership in NADRE
Conclusio
Measuring Air Quality Index to Evaluate Pollution Level in Mogadishu City Using IoT Sensors
No full textABSTRACT
Air pollution is the largest environmental and public health challenge in the world today. It leads to adverse effects on human health, climate, and ecosystem. Air is getting polluted because of the release of Toxic gases by industries, vehicular emissions, and increased concentration of harmful gases, this necessitates a proper real-time measurement and analysis of air quality so that appropriate decisions can be taken in a timely period. In this work a system of measuring air quality index for Mogadishu city is proposed and implemented using IoT technology, C++ programming language and mobile programming. Evaluation and measurement of the air pollution were performed according to WHO guidelines with each level categorized by symbolized colors. To get the results of this investigation, we used some devices such as MQ3 for smoke sensors and air quality level for real- for the mobile e, NodeMCU send data to cloud firebase and data are shown in mobile application
Higher education regulation and the Somali context
No full textProf. Abdulkareem Hassan Jama delivered this presentation at SomaliREN Annual Council Meetings in Jigjiga, Somali region of Ethiopia
DNSSEC Deployment and Validation
No full textMr. Yazid Akanho, the Technical Engagement Specialist, Middle East, and Africa of ICANN delivered this presentation at the 5th Annual Conference of the Somali Network Operators' Group (SomNOG5)
Antibiotic resistance pattern of Escherichia coli isolates from outpatients with urinary tract infections in Somalia
Get PDFIntroduction: Several studies suggest increasing rates of antibiotic resistance among adult populations with Urinary tract infections (UTI). Escherichia coli (E. coli), is the predominant bacterium both in the community and in hospital environments causing uropathogenic infections. This study aimed to estimate the common uropathogen bacteria that cause UTI among outpatients as well as to determine the antibiotic resistance pattern of E. coli isolates among outpatients with UTI infections at Shaafi hospital, Mogadishu, Somalia.
Methodology: A cross-sectional study was conducted at Shaafi Hospital, Mogadishu, Somalia. A total of 128 samples were collected from outpatients suspected of UTI and tested through bacteriological investigations and antimicrobial susceptibility tests following the Kirby-Bauer agar disc diffusion method.
Results: E. coli was isolated in 34 (41%) out of the total 83 samples that showed growth followed by Staphylococcus aureus 22 (26.5%), Pseudomonas aeruginosa, 13 (15.7%), Klebsiella pneumoniae 8 (9.6 %) and Proteus spp. 6 (7.2%). E. coli was highly sensitive to nitrofurantoin, 29 (85.3%), and ciprofloxacin (n = 23, 67.6%), and had the highest resistance rate of ceftriaxone, 33 (97.1%). The odds of having UTI were higher in patients with a history of UTI (Odds ratio OR = 0.211, 95% confidence interval CI: 0.080, 0.553) and history of antibiotic use (OR = 0.322, 95% CI: 0.113, 0.917). Increased resistance rate of E. coli against cephalosporins could be due to its excessive use as empirical therapy.
Conclusion: The study indicates that outpatients with UTI could be at high risk of antibiotic resistance, suggesting regular surveillance and monitoring of antibiotics
Toward Developing Intelligent Mobile Obe System In Higher Learning Institution
Get PDFAbstract: The rapid growth in Mobile application users has made researchers and practitioners think of intelligent tools that can help the users and applications in delivering quality services. Therefore, an intelligent agent is expected to become the tool for the development of mobile outcome-based education (OBE) particularly in higher learning Institutions (HLI). In this context, there is a lacking of OBE intelligent agents in assisting academicians to use OBE management for mobile application system environments. This paper presents the conceptual design and development of a mobile intelligent agent based on mobile OBE called i-MOBE. Since that, i-MOBE that we developed is considered very important for academicians and students to facilitate them in using for academic purposes in HLI particularly in helping them to monitor the performance in teaching and learning (T&L). The system architecture will be covering the conceptual design and its interaction as well as the system configuration in helping the academicians to use the system in their T&L toward effective and efficiency also can be applied in monitoring based on scenarios such as tests, assignments and projects and so on