[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…
(Originally shared at Medium / Code For Africa · 5 min read) Does one size fit all? How should Africa, with its fragile healthcare systems, crowded settlements and large informal economies tailor global strategies for fighting COVID-19 to ensure they are feasible or effective locally? African policymakers and health agencies Read more…
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…
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 a right to be informed in their own language about what is going on and how they can Read more…
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.
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…
The goals of AfricArXiv include fostering community among African researchers, facilitate collaborations between African and non-African researchers, and raise the profile of African research on the international stage. These goals align with the goals of a different organization, the Psychological Science Accelerator (PSA). This post describes how these goals align Read more…
TCC Africa’s Executive Director and AfricArXiv project partner Joy Owango talked to Africa Business Communities about its model, ambitions and the current state of higher education and research in Sub Saharan Africa. Originally published at africabusinesscommunities.com/…/ The Training Centre in Communication is a self sustainable 14 year old not-for-profit organization in partnership Read more…
In early December 2019, Prof Abukutsu-Onyanko presented her work at the UTC-SPARC Africa Open Access Symposium 2019 Symposium in Cape Town, South Africa. View the presentation on Zenodo: About ten years ago, Leslie Chan interviewed Prof. Mary Abukutsa about her work as a scientist in Agriculture for Food Security and Read more…
Originally published at crastina.se/science-communication-in-africa/. This Crastina Column by Pearl Ihuoma Osirike, Ph.D. Fellow at the University of Ghana, initiates the theme ”SciComm in Africa” at the crastina.org website. It is my strong belief that scientific output should not be published only in scientific journals for the learned few but should be Read more…
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