Collaboration – AfricArXiv

Collaboration

Multilingual chatbot for African citizens, researchers and policy-makers to provide quick answers around COVID-19

The German startup DialogShift and the pan-African cross-disciplinary preprint repository AfricArXiv develop a multilingual chatbot for African citizens, researchers and policy-makers to provide quick answers around COVID-19. The coronavirus pandemic has overwhelmed the world with an incredible force. Most people find it difficult to keep an overview of the current Read more…

By DialogShift & AfricArXiv, 4 weeks4 weeks ago

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Scholarly publishers are working together to maximize efficiency during COVID-19 pandemic

Today on 27 April 2020, a group of publishers and scholarly communications organizations announced a joint initiative to maximize the efficiency of peer review, ensuring that key work related to COVID-19 is reviewed and published as quickly and openly as possible. AfricArXiv fully supports this collaborative approach. Please find below Read more…

By Jo Havemann, 1 month1 month ago

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Mitigating the effects of COVID-19 by distributing hand sanitizers

An initiative gathers professors of Omdurman Islamic University in Sudan for COVID-19 pandemic mitigation.

By Fayza Eid Mohammad, 1 month3 weeks ago

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Knowledge Futures Group and AfricArXiv launch Audio/Visual Preprint Repository on PubPub

PubPub, the open-source collaboration platform built by the Knowledge Futures Group, has partnered with AfricArXiv, the African preprint repository, to host audio/visual preprints. This partnership will enable multimedia submissions around research outputs, including community participation and feedback for and from researchers.

By Knowledge Futures Group & AfricArXiv, 1 month1 month ago

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Join us: COVID-19 Africa Response

Team members from AfricArXiv have partnered up and are closely collaborating with other organizations like Code for Africa, Vilsquare, African Science Literacy Network, TCC Africa, and Science 4 Africa amongst others to mobilize action from a scientific and Africa-centred angle.Please join us on the following digital tools and communication channels: Read more…

By AfricArXiv & partners, 2 months2 months ago

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Higher Education & Research in Africa – the stakeholders [data set]

We have compiled a list of Higher Education & Research in Africa stakeholders and shared it in xlsx, csv, pdf and ods format on ZENODO under Public Domain license (Creative Commons CC0 = no rights reserved) The list contains stakeholders and practitioners in Higher Education and [Open] Science on the Read more…

By The AfricArXiv team, 2 months2 months ago

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Africa’s Largest Open Data & Civic Technology Network Partners with Continental Digital Archive for Scientific Research to Mitigate COVID-19

UPDATE as of May 11, 2020: Amicable ending of the collaboration between CfA and AfricArXiv After careful consideration and discussion with the board, we as AfricArXiv have opted to amicably end our collaboration with Code for Africa. We opt to focus on other activities and hopefully look at new initiatives Read more…

By Code for Africa & AfricArXiv, 2 months3 weeks ago

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African Digital Research Repositories: Mapping the Landscape

Authors & Contributors in alphabetical orderBezuidenhout, Louise, Havemann, Jo, Kitchen, Stephanie, De Mutiis, Anna, & Owango, Joy. (2020). African Digital Research Repositories: Mapping the Landscape [Data set]. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3732172 Visual Map: https://kumu.io/access2perspectives/african-digital-research-repositories Dataset: https://tinyurl.com/African-Research-RepositoriesArchived at https://info.africarxiv.org/african-digital-research-repositories/ Submission form: https://forms.gle/CnyGPmBxN59nWVB38 Licensing: Text and Visual Map – CC-BY-SA 4.0 // Dataset – CC0 (Public Read more…

By International African Institute (IAI) and AfricArXiv., 2 months3 weeks ago

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Lessons learned from the Ebola outbreak

OB Sisay urges us to learn from the Western Africa Ebola virus epidemic (2013-2016) and make informed decisions about the COVID-19 outbreak across the continent.

By Jo Havemann, 2 months2 months ago

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COVID-19 Africa Response

Collecting resources from and for all levels of African societies to coordinate COVID19-responses by African organizations and influencers Thousands of individuals and hundreds of grassroots and international organisations, CBOs, NPOs, governmental and industrial are working hard to mitigate the effects of the pandemic on the African continent. We are not Read more…

By Jo Havemann, 3 months3 months ago