Enabling and Improving Research Output : e-Infrastructure and services for African research communities

Africa/Lagos
Seminar Room 104 (Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC))

Seminar Room 104

Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC)

University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Charles Uwadia (Chair, Board of Trustees, Eko-Konnect)
Description

The event is open to all researchers, and will have contributions from both sides of the e-Infrastructure equation.

An overview of the e-Infrastructure model would be given, explaining how NRENs and other institutes provide services to research communities and how researchers could typically benefit from these services.

Examples of services are

  • Identity Federations : Improving access to services and researcher mobility
  • Computing and Data Infrastructures: Enabling digital research and teaching
  • Collaboration tools : enabling research communities in conducting the day-to-day execution of their research
  • Open Access data and document repositories : improving the visibility and impact of research, and access to research output.
  • Interoperable infrastructures : removing barriers to regional and international collaboration

This is the outline of the "offer", to start the conversation.  In reply, we will showcase a few outlines of the "demand" - presentations by researchers which have need of some or all of these services.   They will outline their research agenda and explain the typical workflow.

The seminar will end with a round-table discussion