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Blog PostOpen Data in Africa : A path in the right direction
In the last few years, the momentum for Open Data has been steadily growing in Africa - with a few countries launching national level platforms. The Open Data for Africa is one of the comprehensive...
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GODAN participates in new Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data
The new Global Partnership for Sustainable Development is a high level initiative that will strengthen the Data Revolution for sustainable development and inclusive growth. It is mainly organized...
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Open access movement in Zimbabwe: A 10 year review (2005 -2015)
IntroductionInitiatives to share scholarly works in Zimbabwe emerged in the early 2000s through the efforts of the Association of African Universities (AAU). It was noted that African research...
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Filling data gaps to better monitor the Sustainable Development Goals
The "Harnessing the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development" workshop took place on the 15th of July and aimed to address and close data gaps in official statistical systems...
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MTSR Conference Programme now available
The MTSR 2015- 9th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference programme is now available online. The conference agenda has 41 submissions which will be delivered on the 9th to the 11th of September...
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COAR Launches Draft “Resource Type” Vocabulary for Open Access Repositories
Open access repositories are evolving in terms of the roles they play and the attributes they aim to express in their records. Users want to know about additional metadata elements used for...
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Research4Life Training: An overview of the past year
To make the best use of the Research4Life resources, training is one of the key and most important activities that our partners and programmes are committed to offer to our users. During the year...