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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2018/02/15/open-data-day-2018-is-coming-whats-on-the-map/">https://blog.okfn.org/2018/02/15/open-data-day-2018-is-coming-whats-on-the-map/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">The following so far recorded for Africa:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Tanzania: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-mapathon-for-open-data-day-map-tanzania-to-help-end-fgm-tickets-38118498455"><span style="color:#69B93B;text-decoration:none">Online
mapathon for Open Data Day – map Tanzania to help end FGM</span></a>: To support Open Data Day, we are organising an online event to map rural Tanzania to help end FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) by better mapping the areas where they are at risk into OpenStreetMap.
More information is available <a href="https://crowd2map.wordpress.com/"><span style="color:#69B93B;text-decoration:none">here</span></a> and a short film explaining why we are doing this is <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/873491619459013/%20"><span style="color:#69B93B;text-decoration:none">here</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#2D2D2D;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Niger: In this meeting, the focus is on <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1BRsyzlbn8KEMP8OkvjyttGgIKuTSgETZW9NHRtCbT1s/viewform?edit_requested=true"><span style="color:#69B93B;text-decoration:none">training
researchers on skills and competencies for practicing open science</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Well done to the above, and looking forward to many more added!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Ina<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Ina Smith</span></b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Project Manager:
<a href="http://africanopenscience.org.za/"><span style="color:#0563C1">African Open Science Platform</span></a>
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Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)<br>
<a href="https://blog.doaj.org/2016/09/07/the-doaj-ambassadors-biographies/"><span style="color:#0563C1">DOAJ Ambassador, Southern Africa Region</span></a><br>
<a href="https://loy2016blog.wordpress.com/"><span style="color:#0563C1">LIASA Librarian of the Year 2016</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9710-3668"><span style="color:#0563C1">http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9710-3668
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Switchboard: +27 12 349 6600
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</span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:ina@assaf.org.za"><span style="color:#0563C1;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">ina@assaf.org.za</span></a></span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">1st Floor Block A, The Woods, 41 De Havilland Crescent, Persequor Park
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Meiring Naudé Road, Lynnwood 0020, Pretoria, South Africa.
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