[IRTalk] Dakar Declaration on Open Access in Africa and the Global South

Ina Smith Ina at assaf.org.za
Tue Apr 5 12:30:20 SAST 2016


Dear Colleagues


Please find attached. This declaration was adopted during the Fourth Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Conference on Electronic Publishing and Dissemination<http://www.codesria.org/> held in Dakar, Senegal, during March 30 to April 1, 2016,


From the meeting, emerged the following recommendations:

 Make publicly funded research in Africa and the Global South freely available to the public through the World Wide Web.

 Establish multi-stakeholder mechanisms for collaboration and cooperation to amplify and increase the voice and influence of research from Africa and the Global South.

 Institutions and governments in Africa and the Global South should urgently develop open access policies and initiatives to promote scholarship as well as acknowledge production and dissemination.

 Institutions and governments in Africa and the Global South should provide the enabling environment, infrastructure and capacity building required to support open access.


Ina Smith
SciELO Planning Manager
Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)

LIASA Exco Convener ICT Development (2014-2016)
LIASA HELIG Chair (2014-2016)

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