Dr
Ognjen Prnjat
(GRNET)
03/11/2017, 08:00
How collaboration works
Reviewed Presentation
We present a case study and lessons learnt in cross-continent collaboration (Europe, Africa, Asia) which covers the whole lifecycle of scientific research: from conception of ideas through collaborative work on large-scale scientific experiments in different scientific fields, through the use of data processing, manipulation and storage services, to joint authorship and publication of research...
Dr
Namatié Traoré
(Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa)
03/11/2017, 08:20
How collaboration works
Reviewed Presentation
Namatié Traoréª *, Réjean Landryb
ª Telfer School of Management; University of Ottawa, 55 rue Laurier E., 55 Laurier St E.
Ottawa, ON, (Canada), K1N 6N5, namatie.traore@gmail.com; namatie.traore@uottawa.ca
b Department of Management, Faculty of Business, Laval University, 2325 rue de l’Université, Québec City, QC, (Canada), G1V 0A6, rejean.landry@mng.ulaval.ca
* Corresponding author. ...
Ms
Anelda van der Walt
(TALARIFY)
03/11/2017, 08:40
Stimulating intra-African collaboration
Reviewed Presentation
The current acute shortage of computational, data management and analysis skills amongst researchers and practitioners has been described in numerous publications. Programmes have been developed to address this shortage at institutions globally. Interventions aim to provide training in multiple ways, including: short courses, bootcamps, and Massive Open Online Courses. Some “data science”...
Dr
Luc Ngend
(University of Malawi), Prof.
Santhi Kumaran
(University of Rwanda)
03/11/2017, 09:00
Stimulating intra-African collaboration
Reviewed Presentation
The Internet of things (IoT) refers to the networked interconnection of objects in addition to traditional networked devices. This is starting to happen, as the incessant decrease in size, cost and energy consumption of wireless devices is boosting the number of deployed wireless devices dramatically. The number of mobile objects composing the IoT will be huge: in 2020 between 12 to 50 billion...
Mr
Rosenthal T Robert Shoniwa
(Harare Institute of Technology)
03/11/2017, 09:20
Technical support required for intra-African collaboration
Reviewed Presentation
Normally, the process of applying to universities in Zimbabwe is a generally redundant activity which involves filling in application forms to the multiple local universities using the exact same information on all forms. This paper proposes a platform that not only does away with this redundancy but also reaps great benefits as by-products of its implementation.
The solution will streamline...
Prof.
Joseph M. Kavulya
(The Catholic University of Eastern Africa)
03/11/2017, 09:40
Technical support required for intra-African collaboration
Reviewed Presentation
Review of literature reveals that Africa’s contribution to global knowledge and innovations is still rated at low. Scholarly communication in the region is bedeviled by among others, poor discovery and access to local scientific information, low publishing levels, and low funding and collaboration in research enterprise. Scientists in the region are at pains on to remedy situation. One...
Mr
George Kinyera-Apuke
(Kyambogo University (Uganda)), Prof.
Wilson OKAKA
(Kyambogo University (Uganda))
03/11/2017, 10:00
Stimulating intra-African collaboration
Reviewed Presentation
We explain developing effective public awareness communication strategy will help to stimulate the role of NRENs s well as the regional RENs to spur the current and projected intra- African collaboration strategies for enhanced research and education outputs. The main objectives are to: review the role or benefits of public awareness communication strategy in promoting intra-regional...
