<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.25in;font-size:12.8px;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></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.25in;font-size:12.8px;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 available at: <a href="http://africanopenscience.org.za/?p=594" target="_blank">http://africanopenscience.org.<wbr>za/?p=594</a></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;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 African Open Science Platform partnered with the organisers of the</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)"> <a href="https://events.ubuntunet.net/" target="_blank" style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="color:rgb(30,115,190);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;text-decoration-line:none">UbuntuNetConnect 2017 conference</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">and hosted a workshop – focusing on data infrastructure and capacity building – to 65 participants from all over Africa. From previous workshops presented, it was evident that Ethiopia faces the same needs in terms of open science policy, infrastructure to exchange and make data openly available, and capacity building.</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;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 style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Prof. Afework Kassu (State Minister for Science and Technology, Ethiopia) welcomed all, and during his opening made the comment that openness should be embraced towards global peace. He further said that we need to lay the foundation for future citizens. We also need universities and industries to work together to promote further innovations. The important role of digital library systems to benefit students and staff was highlighted. A Science Cloud, and Science Cafes in the city for citizens to benefit from, are just two of the very successful initiatives. He ended by saying that Africa needs a continental strategy for Science and Technology towards addressing the objectives of the</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)"> <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiNttPqqp3XAhXFBBoKHWEuAnoQFggsMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.un.org%2Fen%2Fafrica%2Fosaa%2Fpdf%2Fau%2Fagenda2063.pdf&usg=AOvVaw22hlvdvvBHu1AIe0JXB-d8" target="_blank" style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="color:rgb(30,115,190);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;text-decoration-line:none">United Nations 2036 agenda</span></a>.</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><br></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">View the </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><a href="https://events.ubuntunet.net/indico/event/15/" target="_blank" style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="color:rgb(30,115,190);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;text-decoration-line:none">workshop programme by clicking here</span></a>.</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><br></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Kind regards</font></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Ina (on behalf of AOSP Team)</font></span></p></div>

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