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<title>Potential Research Collaboration - Survival of University's Research Data Repositories in Developing Countries</title>
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<h1><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,<br>
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Warm greetings from the Association of African Universities. <br>
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Higher Education Institutions are being invited to express their interest to collaborate in a research on data repositories in developing countries.  <br>
The research specifically focuses on the evolution, functioning and survival of Research Data Repositories (RDR).<br>
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We encourage institutions to fill out a short survey via this link; <a href="https://aau.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6cc9eba9342422628d5639f6e&id=4be953e831&e=65ea46242a" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2BAADF;font-weight:normal">https://www.research.net/r/RDR18</span></a><br>
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The Research findings will be presented at the SciDataCon 2018, taking place on 5-8 November in Gaborone, Botswana. This forms part of the International Data Week convened by CODATA, the ICSU World Data System and the Research Data Alliance<br>
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Please find the abstract and further information on the session at which the research findings will be relayed here; <a href="https://aau.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6cc9eba9342422628d5639f6e&id=88ac73cdea&e=65ea46242a" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2BAADF;font-weight:normal">https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/sessions/230/</span></a><br>
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Best Wishes<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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