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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Date:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> 2-6 December 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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opportunity and to open the doors for full participation of new African voices in the scholarly communication landscape. There has to be a mind-set shift away from the assumption that the global south will remain ignorant and underdeveloped until it has access
to the global north’s knowledge. The creation and dissemination of global south research will convert the one directional flow of information to a facilitated process of equitable knowledge exchange.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><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:black">The need for access to, and participation in knowledge production is at the epicentre of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which is
expected to shape the global agenda on economic, social and environmental development for the next decade or so. The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) views SDGs as a framework for development with access to information
at their core. The emphasis of the SDGs, for Africa and many other parts of the global south, is the elimination of extreme poverty, the reduction of child mortality, the promotion of gender equality, the halting of the spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria and other
diseases, and the provision of universal primary education for the world’s poorest. This conference will interrogate the role of open access in enhancing capacities to achieve the SDGs and promote African growth and development.<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:black">The social justice principles of the openness movement must underscore the need for equitable dissemination of marginalised research and to improve access
to content in support of liberating repressed African scholarly content. This is a week for workshop engagements and invited papers for critical discourse to advance African open scholarship within a social justice paradigm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>draft programme</b>: </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.sparcafricasymp.uct.ac.za/sparc/programme">http://www.sparcafricasymp.uct.ac.za/sparc/programme</a><span style="color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333">Lena Nyahodza<br>
<a href="mailto:lena.nyahodza@uct.ac.za?subject=Open%20Access%20Symposium%202019"><span style="color:#F68212;text-decoration:none">lena.nyahodza@uct.ac.za</span></a><br>
+27 21 650 5469<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333">Jeremiah Pietersen<br>
<a href="mailto:jeremiah.pietersen@uct.ac.za?subject=Open%20Access%20Symposium%202019"><span style="color:#F68212;text-decoration:none">jeremiah.pietersen@uct.ac.za</span></a><br>
+27 21 650 3728<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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