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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Dear African Colleagues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Please also share within your research communities. Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">The countdown towards
<a href="http://internationaldataweek.org/">International Data Week 5-8 November 2018</a> has begun!
<b>Registration will open soon!</b><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;color:#1F4E79">We are very excited to have the following keynotes presented during this highlight on the African Science Calendar. Please read more at:
<a href="http://internationaldataweek.org">http://internationaldataweek.org</a> – also for information related to the venue, programme, accommodation and more.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Keynote speakers</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79"> include the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Rob Adam</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">,
<i><span style="background:white">Director of the South African Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Radio Telescope<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79;background:white">The MeerKAT (KAT pronounced like one would pronounce the Afrikaans for “cat”), one of the precursors to the SKA, was launched on Friday
13 July 2018. Not only will it generate Big Data at a rate never experienced before – it will also create many new jobs, and is expected to boost tourism, impacting on the South African economy in general.<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;color:#1F4E79;background:white">While visiting Botswana for the upcoming IDW2018, please also make time to visit this telescope! Read more at
<a href="http://www.ska.ac.za/"><span style="color:#033160">http://www.ska.ac.za/</span></a>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Fosca Giannotti, </span>
</strong></span></b><em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Research at the Information Science and Technology Institute</span></em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Fosca Giannotti is Director of Research at the Information Science and Technology Institute “A. Faedo” of the National Research Council, Pisa, Italy. Fosca Giannotti is a scientist
in Data mining and Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics. Fosca leads the Pisa KDD Lab - Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Laboratory <a href="http://kdd.isti.cnr.it/"><span style="color:#1F4E79">http://kdd.isti.cnr.it</span></a>, a joint research initiative
of the University of Pisa and ISTI-CNR, founded in 1994 as one of the earliest research lab centered on data mining. Fosca's research focus is on social mining from big data: human dynamics, social networks, diffusion of innovation, privacy enhancing technology
and explainable AI. She has coordinated tens of research projects and industrial collaborations. Fosca is now the coordinator of SoBigData, the European research infrastructure on Big Data Analytics and Social Mining, an ecosystem of ten cutting edge European
research centres providing an open platform for interdisciplinary data science and data-driven innovation <a href="http://www.sobigdata.eu/"><span style="color:#1F4E79">http://www.sobigdata.eu</span></a>. In 2012-2015 Fosca has been general chair of Steering
board of ECML-PKDD (European conference on Machine Learning) and is currently member of the steering committee EuADS (European Association on Data Science) and on the Italian Lab. of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Ismail Serageldin,
</span></strong><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Founding Director Emeritus of the Library of Alexandria<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Ismail Serageldin, Founding Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) , the new Library of Alexandria, inaugurated in 2002, is currently, Emeritus Librarian, and member
of the Board of Trustees of the Library of Alexandria. He is advisor to the Egyptian Prime Minister in matters concerning culture, science, and museums. He serves as Chair and Member of a number of advisory committees for academic, research, scientific and
international institutions, including as co-Chair of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center (NGIC), and serves on the Advisory Committee of the World Social Science Report for 2013 and 2016, as well as the UNESCO-supported World Water Scenarios (2013) and
the executive council of the Encyclopedia of Life (2010) and Chairs the Executive Council of the World Digital Library (2010). He has held many international positions including as Vice President of the World Bank (1993–2000). He also co-chaired the African
Union’s high level panel for Biotechnology (2006) and again for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in 2012-2013, and was a member of the ICANN Panel for the review of the internet future (2013).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></strong><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Senior Advisor for Science Communications and Advocacy,
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Elizabeth Marincola is a longtime leader of science publishing, advocacy, education, communication and policy. She is Senior Advisor for Communications and Advocacy at the
African Academy of Sciences, a pan-African organization dedicated to the advancement of quality science across the Continent. At AAS, she is leading the development and launch of AAS Open Research, an innovative, transparent publishing platform. Marincola
prior served as CEO of PLOS, publisher of the world’s largest open access journal. She was President of the Society for Science & the Public, Publisher of <em><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Science News</span></em>, and Executive Director
of the American Society for Cell Biology. She has served on multiple national and international advisory committees and boards, including the Board of Directors of eLife and the Strategic Planning Committee for the NIH National Library of Medicine. Marincola
received the (U.S.) Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, and currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health. She received her A.B. from Stanford University and MBA
from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Simeon Materechera,
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North West University</span></em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Professor Materechera is the Director of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Center at the Mafikeng campus of the North West University. He oversees the teaching and research
activities of IKS at the University and is involved in supervision and mentoring of postgraduate students. His career has involved networking activities that led to setting up of collaborations with peers, organizations and institutions involved with research,
teaching and learning, and, community engagement. Professor Materechera has published widely including book chapters, conference presentations, monographs, commissioned research reports and peer-reviewed journal articles. He serves on the editorial boards
of a number of journals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Jörg Helmschrot,
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Dr. Jörg Helmschrot holds a diploma degree in geography, geology and urban planning from the University of Jena in 1999. In 2006, he finished his PhD on the impact of afforestation
on wetland and catchment hydrology in South African headwater catchments. Dr. Helmschrot also holds an extraordinary Professorship with the University of Stellenbosch, Faculty of AgriSciences and the Water Management Institute since 2016. After working as
a SASSCAL researcher at University of Jena until 2012, Dr. Helmschrot joined the Scientific Coordination team of the SASSCAL at University of Hamburg in 2013. Since June 2016, Dr. Helmschrot took up the position of SASSCAL’s Director of Science and Technology
and Capacity Development and is in charge for implementing and coordinating the further development of the SASSCAL research and capacity development agenda as well as the establishment of the Open Access Data Centre. He is also in charge for the successful
implementation of collaborative research projects funded through e.g. AU GMES Africa, EU H2020, BMBF, World Bank and ARC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">In his scientific career, he coordinated and was involved in more than 40 research projects with focus on IWRM, global and climate change impact modelling and assessment, catchment
hydrology, irrigation hydrology, wetland functioning and salinity in Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Angola, Zambia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin), USA, Australia, Turkey and Germany. His scientific work and outcomes are reflected in more than 90 scientific
publications and more than 180 scientific talks.<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>
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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/">DOAJ Ambassador, Southern Africa Region</a><br>
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