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....
