Author:Goodier, Sarah; Naidoo, Uvania; Czerniewicz, LauraDate:Nov 2013Open 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 ...Read morecba
Author:Czerniewicz, Laura; Naidoo, UvaniaDate:Sep 2013This 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 ...Read morecba
Author:Goodier, SarahDate:Sep 2013Open 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 ...Read morecba
Author:Goodier, SarahDate:Sep 2013What 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 ...Read morecba
Author:Naidoo, UvaniaDate:Dec 2013The 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 ...Read morecba