<div dir="ltr">Many thanks for sharing this Ina<div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px">******************************************************</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Professor Benjamin Aribisala, PhD (Birmingham, UK)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Professor of Computer Science</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Head of Department, <span style="font-size:12.8px">Computer Science Department</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Lagos State University</span><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.csc.lasu.edu.ng/about-us/hod.html" target="_blank">http://www.csc.lasu.edu.ng/about-us/hod.html</a></span><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="mailto:Benjamin.Aribisala@lasu.edu.ng" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">Benjamin.Aribisala@lasu.edu.ng</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Chairman, ICT Committee</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Lagos State University</span><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">**************************************************************</span></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Ina Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Ina@assaf.org.za" target="_blank">Ina@assaf.org.za</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_7247200022963106015WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">*Please share via your networks. Apologies for cross-posting.*<br><br><u></u><u></u></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Dear all<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Please join us for the session on the African Open Science Platform (AOSP) and progress made on strategic and decision-making level, as experienced by country representatives. Registration is free, but attendees will be responsible for covering own expenses (no scholarships available unfortunately).<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Register:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"> <a href="http://www.sfsa.co.za/online-registration/" target="_blank">http://www.sfsa.co.za/online-<wbr>registration/</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Date:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"> 8 December 2017<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Time:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"> 11:30-12:00<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Venue: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Onyx Room, CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa. Maps at <a href="http://www.sfsa.co.za/contact/" target="_blank">http://www.sfsa.co.za/contact/</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Programme:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"> <a href="http://www.sfsa.co.za/science-talks-8-12/" target="_blank">http://www.sfsa.co.za/science-<wbr>talks-8-12/</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">The African Open Science Platform: Towards an Open Science Framework for African countries<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">The purpose of the African Open Science Platform is to explore progress made in terms of sharing scientific/research data by African researchers, especially where the research has been funded with public money. At the same time, the project wishes to establish what is needed to make the sharing of scientific/research data possible, and provide information on interventions required to get on par with the international scientific community where open science and open data are concerned. During this science talk, the project would like to report on findings and outcomes regarding open science policy on national level, infrastructure requirements to share data, skills needed to share data, and incentives for sharing data. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><table class="m_7247200022963106015MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="border:solid black 1.0pt;background:white;padding:5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Open Science and Open Data: Continental Perspectives and Trends<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td valign="top" style="border:solid black 1.0pt;border-left:none;background:white;padding:5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Nodumo Dhlamini, <span style="background:white">Director: ICT Services & Knowledge Management, Association of African Universities (AAU) (Ghana)</span><u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="border:solid black 1.0pt;border-top:none;background:white;padding:5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Open Science & Open Data: African NRENs Strategies & Plans<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td valign="top" style="border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;background:white;padding:5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Duncan Greaves, Chief Executive Director, TENET (South Africa)<u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="border:solid black 1.0pt;border-top:none;background:white;padding:5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Open Science & Open Data: Madagascar<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td valign="top" style="border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;background:white;padding:5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Noasilalaonomenjanahary Ambinintsoa Lucie, Researcher, Ministry of Environment, Ecology and Forest (Madagascar)</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="border:solid black 1.0pt;border-top:none;background:white;padding:5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Open Science & Open Data Policy Framework: Botswana<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td valign="top" style="border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;background:white;padding:5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Audrey Masizana, <span style="background:white">Head of Department Computer Science/ Senior Lecturer/Researcher, University of Botswana (Botswana)</span><u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="border:solid black 1.0pt;border-top:none;background:white;padding:5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Closing & Going forward<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td valign="top" style="border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;background:white;padding:5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Susan Veldsman & Simon Hodson<u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">We are looking very much forward seeing you there!<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Kind 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