As we increasingly widen our reach to African researchers and institutions, we would like to share some updates of our development and opportunities with you.
We foster language diversity, research integrity and transparency in African scholarly publishing and we are extending that to our communication. We therefore have three widely spoken languages in Africa for our newsletter and we are working to have it more and more inclusive and diverse over time.
We are excited to be amongst the recipients of the JROST fund. AfricArXiv, the African Open Access and preprint portal, was launched in June 2018 and has since been run and maintained with in kind contributions by dedicated team members, our colleagues and friends. The award will strengthen our community work to support African scholars in making their achievements and results discoverable through Open Access and appropriate licensing. We can now settle some of our expenses, initiate the implementation of our roadmap, and gear up for subsequent fundraising and strategic partnership building in the African SciComm ecosystem.
Nous sommes ravis de faire partie des bénéficiaires du fonds JROST. AfricArXiv, le portail africain de libre accès et de pré-impression, a été lancé en juin 2018 et a depuis été géré et maintenu grâce aux contributions en nature de membres de l'équipe dévoués, de nos collègues et amis. Le prix renforcera notre travail communautaire pour aider les universitaires africains à rendre leurs réalisations et leurs résultats découvrables grâce au libre accès et aux licences appropriées. Nous pouvons maintenant régler certaines de nos dépenses, lancer la mise en œuvre de notre feuille de route et nous préparer à une collecte de fonds ultérieure et à la construction de partenariats stratégiques dans l'écosystème africain de la SciComm.
Le fonds inaugural de cette année a été rendu possible grâce à la générosité de Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Crossref, ITHAKA, Hypothesis et Invest in Open Infrastructure. Nous remercions également tous nos sponsors, ainsi que le comité des prix JROST et le comité de programme pour leur soutien.
أفريكاركسيف تحصل على جائزة الاستجابة السريعة JROST
يسعدنا أن نكون من بين المستفيدين من صندوق JROST. تم إطلاق AfricaArXiv ، بوابة الوصول المفتوح الأفريقي وبوابة ما قبل الطباعة ، في يونيو 2018 ومنذ ذلك الحين تم تشغيلها وصيانتها بمساهمات عينية من قبل أعضاء الفريق المخصصين وزملائنا وأصدقائنا. ستعزز الجائزة عمل مجتمعنا لدعم العلماء الأفارقة في جعل إنجازاتهم ونتائجهم قابلة للاكتشاف من خلال الوصول المفتوح والترخيص المناسب. يمكننا الآن تسوية بعض نفقاتنا ، والبدء في تنفيذ خارطة الطريق الخاصة بنا ، والاستعداد لاحقًا لجمع الأموال وبناء الشراكة الاستراتيجية في النظام البيئي الأفريقي SciComm.
أصبح الصندوق الافتتاحي لهذا العام ممكنًا بفضل سخاء مبادرة Chan Zuckerberg و Crossref و ITHAKA و Hypothesis و Invest in Open Infrastructure. نشكر أيضًا جميع الرعاة ، وكذلك لجنة جوائز JROST ولجنة البرنامج على دعمهم.
The summit will cover applications of Conversational AI, Chatbots, Voice, Virtual Assistants, and Conversation Design in a variety of sectors. The focus is on how companies are using chatbots and conversational AI to decrease costs and increase revenues and explore latest trends, use cases, and get a behind the scene look at what is working best.
Sommet sur les chatbots africains et l'IA conversationnelle
AfricArXiv a le plaisir d'annoncer notre partenariat avec l'African Chatbot & Conversational AI Summit qui se tiendra virtuellement du 4 au 5 mars 2021.
>> Site web de l'événement: http://chatbotafrica.com/
Le sommet couvrira les applications de l'IA conversationnelle, des chatbots, de la voix, des assistants virtuels et de la conception de conversation dans divers secteurs. L'accent est mis sur la manière dont les entreprises utilisent les chatbots et l'IA conversationnelle pour réduire les coûts et augmenter les revenus, explorer les dernières tendances, les cas d'utilisation et découvrir les coulisses de ce qui fonctionne le mieux.
قمة روبوت المحادثة الأفريقية والذكاء الاصطناعي للمحادثة
يسر موقع AfricArXiv أن يعلن عن شراكتنا مع القمة الإفريقية لبرامج الدردشة الآلية والمحادثة للذكاء الاصطناعي التي ستعقد تقريبًا في الفترة من 4 إلى 5 مارس 2021
>> موقع الحدث: http://chatbotafrica.com/
ستغطي القمة تطبيقات الذكاء الاصطناعي للمحادثة ، وروبوتات الدردشة ، والصوت ، والمساعدات الافتراضية ، وتصميم المحادثة في مجموعة متنوعة من القطاعات. ينصب التركيز على كيفية استخدام الشركات لروبوتات الدردشة والذكاء الاصطناعي للمحادثة لخفض التكاليف وزيادة الإيرادات واستكشاف أحدث الاتجاهات وحالات الاستخدام وإلقاء نظرة خلف الكواليس على ما يعمل بشكل أفضل.
Featured Interviews
Interview with Nicholas Outa of Maseno University, Kenya>>Read
Nicholas Outa, from Maseno University, Kenya, is an aquatic researcher working towards filling research gaps in Freshwater Aquatic Systems, Fish Ecology and Aquaculture.
Interview with Rania Mohamed of University of Khartoum, Sudan>>Read
This interview explores Dr. Baleela’s research work, experience and her efforts in educating her community in dealing with poisonous and venomous organisms.
Fundraising
Contribute to covering the fees for AfricArXiv preprint hosting on the Open Science Framework (OSF). Your contribution will go towards enhancing the discoverability of African research output through our partnership with theCenter for Open Science. The COS maintains the Open Science Framework (OSF) to help researchers conduct research more rigorously, and manage and share their work more openly.
We present a collection of COVID-19 research articles dealing specifically with challenges and achievements on the African continent. The collection currently lists 573 articles.
This is a collection of articles from various publishers and repositories that we curate in collaboration with ScienceOpen.
Recherche COVID-19 en Afrique et à propos de l'Afrique
Nous présentons une collection d'articles de recherche COVID-19 traitant spécifiquement des défis et des réalisations sur le continent africain. Maintenant la liste des 573 articles.
Il s'agit d'une collection d'articles de divers éditeurs et référentiels que nous organisons en collaboration avec ScienceOpen.
أبحأبحاث COVID-19 في أفريقيا و حولها
نقدم مجموعة من المقالات البحثية حول COVID-19 و التي تتناول على وجه التحديد التحديات و الإنجازات في القارة الأفريقية. تضم المجموعة حال 573 مقالة. نقوم بتنسيق هذه المجموعة من المقالات من مختلف الناشرين و المستودعات بالتعاون مع OpenScience
Kruschick, Felicitas. (2021, February). Inclusive Education: 'From West to the Rest' (Grech 2011, 88) - About the need of getting aware of Knowledge (In-)Equity & Open Science. Presented at the Open Science Barcamp, online-based: Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4552659
Houcemeddine Turki, Mohamed Ali Hadj Taieb, Thomas Shafee, Tiago Lubiana, Dariusz Jemielniak, Mohamed Ben Aouicha, … Daniel Mietchen. (2020, September 14). Representing COVID-19 information in collaborative knowledge graphs: the case of Wikidata. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4549834
Obanda, Johanssen, & Havemann, Jo. (2021, February). Enhancing African Research Visibility Through Use of Repositories. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4497441
Kalejaiye, A. (2021, February 18). Plasmon-enhanced Fields and Upconversion Luminescence utilizing Earth-abundant Plasmonic Nanoparticles. https://doi.org/10.31730/osf.io/62n7z
Kalejaiye, A. (2021, February 18). Spin- and Angle-Resolved Spectroscopy and Spin Waves in Biogenic Magnonic Systems. https://doi.org/10.31730/osf.io/yt2pg
Williams, A. E. (2021, February 18). Deducing the Properties Required by General Collective Intelligence Platforms. https://doi.org/10.31730/osf.io/243wx
Havemann, J., Hahnel, M., Snyders, M., Kitchen, S., & Owango, J. (2021). Enhancing African Research Visibility Through Use of Repositories. AfricArXiv. https://doi.org/10.21428/3b2160cd.f955ebed
Corletey, A., Gwiranhai, D., Naylor, D., & Owango, J. (2020). Open Science Global North-South Partnerships [Webinar]. AfricArXiv. Retrieved from https://africarxiv.pubpub.org/pub/d5ee6u8j
The NISO Plus conference is a continuation of the NFAIS Annual Conference, but in a new and exciting form. We are taking the 60+ year history of the NFAIS Annual conference and expanding it to contain even more of the information professions. We want the NISO Plus Conference to be a place where publishers, vendors, librarians, archivists, product managers, metadata specialists, electronic resource managers, and much more come together to both solve existing problems and more importantly have conversations that prevent future problems from ever occurring. Please contact us with any questions or concerns
La conférence NISO Plus
La conférence NISO Plus est une continuation de la conférence annuelle NFAIS, mais sous une forme nouvelle et passionnante. Nous prenons les 60 ans d'histoire de la conférence annuelle NFAIS et l'élargissons pour inclure encore plus de professions de l'information. Nous voulons que la conférence NISO Plus soit un lieu où les éditeurs, les fournisseurs, les bibliothécaires, les archivistes, les chefs de produit, les spécialistes des métadonnées, les gestionnaires de ressources électroniques et bien plus encore se réunissent pour résoudre les problèmes existants et, plus important encore, avoir des conversations qui empêchent de futurs problèmes. se produisant. Veuillez nous contacter pour toute question ou préoccupation
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