Science Communication

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, 2 months2 months ago

Collaboration

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, 3 months3 months ago

Collaboration

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, 3 months3 months ago

Science Communication

Interview with Dr. King Costa of the Global Centre for Academic Research

Dr. King Costa, Managing Director and Registrar at the Global Centre for Academic Research and Research Associate Professor at AMADI University College in Swaziland. Online profiles: ORCID iD // Linkedin // ResearchGate // Google Scholar // Academia.edu // Publons What is the role of social and management scientists in response Read more…

By Johanssen Obanda, 3 months3 months ago

Collaboration

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, 3 months3 months ago

COVID-19

COVID-19: Time to take science seriously

[originally published at newsdiaryonline.com/…/] The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic is one of the worst crises of our time. At present, over one million people have been infected, with over 60 000 deaths. This crisis has thrown even the most advanced countries into chaos, hit global economy hard, led to the global suspension of Read more…

By Mahmoud Bukar Maina, African Science Literacy Network, 3 months3 months ago

Collaboration

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, 3 months2 months ago

Capacity Building

TCC Africa offering online trainings

Training Centre in Communication has started offering courses online. Ms. Joy Owango, the Executive Director commented that This was part of our strategy for 2019/2020, which, we submitted to the Invest2Impact Award and won. Despite this we are excited about these developments and we look forward to supporting more researchers and academics on how we can improve their research Read more…

By TCC Africa, 4 months4 months ago

COVID-19

Q&A around COVID-19 in regional African languages

Dissemination of information about best practices and behavioral suggestions to reduce the spread of the coronavirus is provided mostly in English. About 2000 local languages are spoken in Africa and people have the right to be informed in their own language about what is going on and how they can Read more…

By The AfricArXiv Team, 4 months3 months ago

Collaboration

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, 4 months3 months ago