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Setting Up A State-Of-The-Art Laboratory In Resource Limited Settings: A Case Study Of The Biomedical Science Research And Training Centre In Northeast Nigeria
No full textAfrican science has substantial potential, yet it grapples with significant challenges. Here we describe the establishment of the Biomedical Science Research Centre (BioRTC) in Yobe State, Northeast Nigeria, as a case study of a hub fostering on-continent research and describe strategies to surmount some of these barriers. We detail the steps taken to establish BioRTC, emphasising the critical importance of stakeholder engagement, community involvement, resource optimisation, and collaborations. Although we are in the early stages of our journey, our experience can nonetheless serve as a guide to others embarking on similar endeavours in resource-limited settings. We invite the support and collaboration of those who share our vision and believe in our potential
FAIRsharing – a globally inclusive curated resource on data and metadata standards
No full textAllyson Lister
ORCID: 0000-0002-7702-4495; LinkedIn: /in/allysonlister
Allyson Lister is the FAIRsharing Content & Community Lead at the University of Oxford. With a background in data standardisation, ontologies, semantic data and integration, she is responsible for FAIRsharing content, as well as for the collaborations with users and outreach across all research domains. Allyson is also an EOSC Future / RDA Domain Ambassador (for standards, databases and policies), and is a co-chair of two RDA working groups.
About this webinar
This webinar session is part of a series co-organized by UbuntuNet Alliance and Access 2 Perspectives as part of the ORCID Global Participation Program.
About ORCID
ORCID is the persistent identifier for researchers to share their accomplishments (research articles, data, etc with funding agencies, publishers, data repositories, and other research workflows.
About AfricArXiv
AfricArXiv is a community-led digital archive for African research communication. By enhancing the visibility of African research, we enable discoverability and collaboration opportunities for African scientists on the continent as well as globally.FAIRsharing is a curated resource on data and metadata standards, interrelated to databases and data policies, across all disciplines.
We will find out what documentation FAIRsharing holds for African research standards, databases, and more
Universal Bibliographic Control: Understanding the Mechanism of Interntional standard book Number ISBN
No full textThe Internationl Standard Book Number ISBN is one of the veritable tools for Universal bibliographic control mechanisms. In this article the author explains how the the ISBN system works aacross cuntries and regions. The discussion narrowed down to Nigeria perspective. The author also looked at the details conponents of the ISBN tool
Strengthening the Emerging Digital Technologies Ecosystem in Kenya
No full textThe rapid increase in devices (mobile phones, computers, sensors, etc.) connected to the Internet (and thus to databases) has resulted in exponential growth in data generation and associated EDTs that can “identify patterns in observed data, build explanatory models, and make predictions quicker and with more accuracy than humans” (Pawelke et al., 2017) EDT/x-data-based applications and algorithms are mainly created in the developed countries and often lack transparency arising from intellectual property rights, thus hindering realization of the enormous potential EDT/x-data- based applications have in addressing socio-economic challenges faced by developing countries, including Kenya. Where applications exist, they are often not broadly accessible, especially for persons with disabilities, areas with slow internet connections or members of underrepresented groups.
In this policy brief, the generic term “big data” is unpacked into four overlapping categories of data: big data, open data, user-generated data and real-time data, and are collectively referred to as “x-data”. EDTs are taken to include artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, geographic information systems (GIS), the Internet of Things (IoT), and big data analytics. These methodologies are often used collectively. Gaps in support systems to develop EDT/x-data-based applications have created new digital divides between developing and developed countries. Further, barriers persist in the use and take-up of x-data by decision-makers, competing data sources, quality of data, limited aware- ness of data existence, and inadequate transformation of data into useful information or tailoring to match the decision-makers needsUKAID
Research and Innovation Strengthening in Africa Fun
Outcome of the Quality Assurance Network Dissemination Project
No full textAs a follow-up to the development of the African Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance (ASG-QA) under the HAQAA initiative (Harmonisation, Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Africa), initiated by the European Union in the context of the Africa-EU Partnership, many activities were carried out by the implementing consortium of HAQAA and stakeholders, to promote and implement the ASG-QA. For example, evaluations of quality assurance agencies and ‘consultancy visits’ to emergent agencies were organised in some African countries to test the relevance of the ASG-QA and to give the structures of the countries concerned the opportunity to position themselves in relation to them. To further facilitate the use of the ASG-QA, a Guide on how to use the ASG-QA in higher education institutions and quality assurance agencies was developed. And, as the first collective initiative across linguistic lines, a dissemination activity of three organisations from different African regions was launched in the last year of the second phase of the HAQAA Initiative, to assess the widespread use of the ASG-QA in Africa. This project, hereafter called the ‘QA Network dissemination project’, was implemented by two QA networks and one national QA Agency, namely the Francophone African Network of National Quality Assurance Agencies (RAFANAQ), the East African Quality Assurance Network (EAQAN) and the National Quality Assurance Council of Mozambique (CNAQ).African Union Commission
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Africa PID Alliance Digital Object Identifiers Registration Concept Note
No full textPersistent Identifiers are the pillars of an interoperable, persistent and reliable Open Research Infrastructure. This is the reason why a lot of countries/regions and organizations took the initiative to contribute to this network and help promote the use of PIDs through their academic and publishing ecosystems
Thesaurus and Information Retrieval
No full textInformation organization and retrieval are the main discussions in this article. The author concentrated on the tool considered one of the oldest in the the area of information retrieval, Thesaurus. Consequently, the author discussed the historical perspective of Thesaurus and its evolution to the present era longside its forma and types
Àwọn aráàlú Uganda tó ní àrùn kọ̀kòrò HIV àti ẹ̀jẹ̀ ríru ò rí ìtọ́jú tí ó péye gbà
No full textÀwọn èèyàn tó ń gbé pẹ̀lú HIV (PLHIV) tó sì ń gba ìtọ́jú àìlera antiretroviral ní ewu púpọ̀ tó jẹ mọ́ àrùn ọkàn àti ti ẹ̀jẹ̀ (CVD). Asopọ̀ iṣẹ́ fún ẹ̀jẹ̀ ríru (HTN), èyí tó jẹ́ ewu CVD àkọ́kọ́, sínú àwọn ilé-ìwòsàn HIV tí wọ́n ṣe ìdúró fún ní orílé-èdè Uganda. Iṣẹ́ wa ìṣáájú ṣe àfihàn ọ̀pọ̀lọpọ̀ àlààfo tí a lè lò fi sẹ àmúlò ìsopọ̀ ìtọ́jú HTN pẹ̀lu ọgbọ́ń ìtọ́jú HIV lẹ́sẹẹsẹ. Nínú iṣẹ́ ìwádìí yìí, a wá láti ṣàwárí àwọn ohun ìdènà sí ti àwọn tó wà ní ìdí ìbojúwo ìṣàkóso ìsopọ̀ HTN àti ìtọ́jú sí àwọn ilé ìwòsàn HIV ní Ilà-Oòrùn ilẹ̀ Uganda
Baswa ba Afrika Borwa bao ba nago le HIV le dikelo tša fase tša CD4 ba kotsing ya godimo ya kankere
No full textNorthern Sotho translation of DOI: 10.31730/osf.io/xq6jhRe akareditše batho ba mengwaga ye 15 go fihla go 24 go tšwa go dinyakišišo tša South African HIV Cancer Match, e lego sehlopha se segolo seo se hlotšwego ke kamano magareng ga dikelo tša laporathori tše di amanago le HIV go tšwa go National Health Laboratory Services le dipego tša go tšwa go National Cancer Registry. Re šomišitše khomphutha go hwetša dikelo tša ditiragalo go bontši bja dikankere tše di tlwaelegilego. Re lekotše dikamano magareng ga dikankere tše le bong, mengwaga, ngwaga wa khalentara, le kelo ya disele tša CD4 ka tšhomišo ya dimmotlolo tša Cox le dikelo tše di beakantšwego tša dikotsi (aHR)