Browsing by Author "Naidoo, Uvania"

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    And that's a wrap: Open Access Week 2013
    (2013-11) Goodier, Sarah; Naidoo, Uvania; Czerniewicz, Laura
    Open Access (OA) Week 2013 came to an end last Friday here at UCT. Instead of the traditional scholar-scholar focus, we focused on scholar-student and scholar-community access with the overall theme this year of access. This was summed up by our panel discussion title: "Out in the cold: accessing scholarly resources beyond the ivory tower". Our events explored what OA is as well as disparities in access to scholarly materials between well-resourced institutions (such as UCT) and organisations or individuals outside of this enabling environment. Some highlights.
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    MOOC-less in Africa
    (2013-09) Czerniewicz, Laura; Naidoo, Uvania
    This map shows the location of the 19 MOOC providers round the world: 8 in the USA, 1 in the UK, 1 in Ireland, 4 in Europe, 2 in Central and South America, 2 in Australia, and 1 in China. And – starkly - none at all in the whole of the African continent.
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    Open science & development goals: round up & the way forward
    (2013-09) Goodier, Sarah; Naidoo, Uvania
    Open science and development were the two key points that brought together a diverse group of over 20 scientists, methodological experts and researchers last week at the University of Cape Town. From the 12–13 September, these experts in their fields gathered for an IDRC OKFN-OpenUCT Open Science for Development workshop to scope possible research areas of open science for development. The focus was on research could be undertaken and to strengthen networks around this broad topic across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
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    Open science & development goals: shaping research questions
    (2013-09) Goodier, Sarah; Naidoo, Uvania
    What do we include in our definition of open science? And what is meant by development? Two key questions when you're discussing open science for development, as we were yesterday on day one of the IDRC OKFN-OpenUCT Open Science for Development workshop. Participants from Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean have gathered at the University of Cape Town in an attempt to map current open science activity in these regions, strengthen community linkages between actors and articulate a framework for a large-scale IDRC-funded research programme on open science. The scoping workshop aims to uncover research questions around how open approaches can contribute to development goals in different contexts in the global South. Contextualization of open approaches and the identification of their key similarities and differences is critical in helping us understand the needs and required frameworks of future research.
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    OpenUCT at the Berlin 11 Satellite Conference
    (2013-12) Naidoo, Uvania
    The Berlin 11 Satellite Conference for students and early stage researchers, funded by the Max-Planck Society, kicked off on the 18th of November. Sixty delegates from 35 different countries convened at The New Malthouse in Berlin to discuss our involvement in making scholarly and scientific research more easily accessible online. The central objective of the conference was to highlight the current state of open access and to map the way forward.