AIMS

Open Data in Africa : A path in the right direction

19/08/2015

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 representation of collections from all Africa data by an African institution. The platform is supported ...

GODAN participates in new Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data

18/08/2015

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 by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), that was launched by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in August 2012.Godan will participate in the ...

De Gruyter - IFLA LTR Research Award 2015: Winning paper will be published in De Gruyter Journal

13/08/2015

This year the IFLA section Library Theory and Research (LTR) proposed a topic for the De Gruyter Saur / IFLA Research Paper Award 2015 and set the focus on "Advance research on Digital Libraries as environment facilitating collaboration, creation and sharing of knowledge".This topic included several subtopics such as "Linked Open ...

Open access movement in Zimbabwe: A 10 year review (2005 -2015)

10/08/2015

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 results are rarely indexed in major international databases and as a result the Database of African Thesis and Dissertations was born to ...

Filling data gaps to better monitor the Sustainable Development Goals

10/08/2015

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 to support the Sustainable Development Goals. The event was organized by ONE Campaign together with the governments from the US and Mexico ...