[IRTalk] Registration for the SPARC Africa Conference 2-6 December 2019, Cape Town, South Africa is now open!

[Ina Smith]

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Theme: Open Access and social justice driving African development

Date: 2-6 December 2019
Venue: iThemba Labs, Old Faure Road<https://www.google.com/maps/place/iThemba+LABS+(NRF)/@-34.0244341,18.7148449,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x1dcc4bfeae505833:0xcf701d8bdbe1b66d!8m2!3d-34.0244341!4d18.7170336>, Faure, Cape Town, South Africa




This conference must challenge the open access movement and its advocates with their social justice principles to usher in equity and equal opportunity and to open the doors for full participation of new African voices in the scholarly communication landscape. There has to be a mind-set shift away from the assumption that the global south will remain ignorant and underdeveloped until it has access to the global north's knowledge. The creation and dissemination of global south research will convert the one directional flow of information to a facilitated process of equitable knowledge exchange.

The need for access to, and participation in knowledge production is at the epicentre of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which is expected to shape the global agenda on economic, social and environmental development for the next decade or so. The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) views SDGs as a framework for development with access to information at their core. The emphasis of the SDGs, for Africa and many other parts of the global south, is the elimination of extreme poverty, the reduction of child mortality, the promotion of gender equality, the halting of the spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, and the provision of universal primary education for the world's poorest. This conference will interrogate the role of open access in enhancing capacities to achieve the SDGs and promote African growth and development.

The social justice principles of the openness movement must underscore the need for equitable dissemination of marginalised research and to improve access to content in support of liberating repressed African scholarly content. This is a week for workshop engagements and invited papers for critical discourse to advance African open scholarship within a social justice paradigm.

Read more<http://www.sparcafricasymp.uct.ac.za/sparc/aboutus> about the theme.


View the draft programme: http://www.sparcafricasymp.uct.ac.za/sparc/programme

Register here: https://uctcmc.eventsair.com/open-access-symposium/registration-form/Site/Register

Please direct any inquiries to the following:

Lena Nyahodza
lena.nyahodza at uct.ac.za<mailto:lena.nyahodza at uct.ac.za?subject=Open%20Access%20Symposium%202019>
+27 21 650 5469

Jeremiah Pietersen
jeremiah.pietersen at uct.ac.za<mailto:jeremiah.pietersen at uct.ac.za?subject=Open%20Access%20Symposium%202019>
+27 21 650 3728



Ina Smith
Project Manager African Open Science Platform
Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)

Phone: +27 12 349 6600
Email: ina at assaf.org.za<mailto:ina at assaf.org.za>

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