L’Université Virtuelle de Côte d’Ivoire (UVCI), créée en 2015 (décret N° 2015-775 du 09 décembre 2015), a pour mission de développer et de vulgariser le numérique dans la formation et l’employabilité des diplômés, la recherche et la science ouverte. A proximité d'un quartier précaire appelé "village Allakro" à la périphérie du quartier des II Plateaux dans la commune de Cocody, l'UVCI s'est...
This presentation reports on an ongoing collaboration between LIBSENSE partners and RUFORUM to provide support for contemporary platform development to enable agricultural research data sharing and management."
La Déclaration pour le partage et l'ouverture des données de la recherche pour le développement durable qui a été élaborée à la suite du colloque « Science Ouverte au Sud : enjeux et perspectives pour une nouvelle dynamique » organisé à Dakar du 23-25 octobre 2019, mentionne le développement des compétences dans la collecte, la gestion, la valorisation et la réutilisation des données comme un...
Open Science paves a way for Open scholarship which in turn improves the quality of research, and encourages global research competitiveness. Various institutions of learning have identified with these open initiatives which include: open access, open data, open Institutional repository. Librarians as information custodians are in charge of the activities towards Open Science. The role of...
The Africa Digital Campus (ADC) project was launched on March 24, 2022, at the Virtual University of Burkina Faso. Conducted in partnership with the French Development Agency (AFD), the Institute of Research for Development (IRD), and the West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN), with the support of the European Union, the project will strengthen cooperation in distance...
Après avoir fait un état des lieux des relations universités-société civile, nous avons constatés un manque de collaboration entre les universités et la société civile, entre les chercheurs et les citoyens, une population vulnérable confrontée à des problèmes socio-économiques, une méconnaissance des potentialités et compétences existantes au sein des universités par la société civile, une...
An update on the LIBSENSE shared repository infrastructure implementation in AfricaConnect3
Sharing and disseminating research, especially African research, is crucial for building global knowledge commons. Through access to African scholarly content, participation occurs, which will build a publishing landscape that is relevant. This regional research productivity affords growth and development in African society, yet this is one component of the scholarly communication ecosystem....
Associated with a relative lack of research capacity in the Global South is lack of research with local relevance to populations in the South. This is compounded by difficulty in publishing high quality research in an open access format so that it is readily available and the results can be applied where they are needed. Recent data indicate that Open Access papers have drastically fewer lead...
The Research and Education FEDerations group (REFEDS) Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Profile defines a standard signal Service Providers (SPs) may send to Identity Providers (IdPs) requesting the use of MFA during federated authentication flows. The IdP includes the corresponding signal in its response to indicate that MFA has occurred. The Profile also defines the minimum criteria a second...
Many rural and remote areas throughout the world lack appropriate connectivity, resulting in a rising digital divide (particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa). For several years, prominent laboratories and institutions have prioritized research on rural broadband. Several solutions are being tested around the world. Our interest in network slicing as an approach has been concentrated in this paper....
