<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.25in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Dear all<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.25in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Congratulations to the Botswana National Open Data Open Science Forum with a highly successful workshop presented on 30 & 31 Oct. 2017 in Gabarone. The focus of the workshop was mainly on policy and infrastructure.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.25in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Presentations are available at: <a href="http://africanopenscience.org.za/?p=576">http://africanopenscience.org.za/?p=576</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.25in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">From the national forum attended in Botswana
30 – 31 October 2017, it was clear that the country shares the same challenges
as other African countries in terms of open science (incl. open data) policy,
utilising and adapting the current ICT infrastructure/fibre connections to
allow for the transmission of data sets to advance science, and building
capacity – not only in terms of plans to manage research data on individual
researcher/project level, but also in terms of soft skills to properly manage
and re-use data. Botswana Statistics (focusing on government data) is one of
the success stories which was shared. The presence of high-level key
stakeholders demonstrated commitment from government level. The general
experience was positive, with Botswana colleagues adamant to not only start
doing African science in an African way, but also to do Botswana science the
Botswana away – steering away from benchmarking with countries they have very
little in common, at the same time, implementing international best practice.
This coordinated effort brought together stakeholders from all over Botswana.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.25in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">The Botswana ODOS National Committee has
indicated that actions from this workshop will include the following:<span></span></span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Addressing policy and infrastructure needs;<span></span></span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Adaptation of the ODOS mandate by key
stakeholders;<span></span></span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Capacity building, training people on
institutional and community level;<span></span></span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Finding innovative uses of data; and<span></span></span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Engaging citizens.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 15pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 15pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Kind regards</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 15pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 15pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Ina (on behalf of the AOSP Team)</span></p></div>

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