Welcome and framing

• Moderator

- Describing the purpose of the webinar and its connection to the International OA Week theme. - Housekeeping - Opening poll

Keynote and live demonstration of PIDsLink

• Omo Oaiya (WACREN)
• Donald Seanedzu (WACREN)

Nigeria as Pathfinder, with funder signal

• Chinwe Anunobi (National Library of Nigeria (NLN))

- The Nigeria PIDs model - The stakeholders - Steps so far and next steps

ARKs: open, low-cost identifiers for knowledge sovereignty

• John Kunze (ARK Alliance)

- How ARKs work - Owning your NAAN - Use cases beyond articles - ARKs alongside DOIs.ntative

Crossref DOIs through WACREN - Crossref Membership benefits - Sponsorship steps - Metadata quality - ROR for every institution

ORCID in the African PID ecosystem

• Owen Iyoha (Eko-Konnect)

- ORCID linked to DOIs, ARKs and ROR. - Nigerian consortium. - ORCID-WACA Community of Practice.

Panel: From invisible to discoverable

• Abigail Essel
• Baylor Odelami (FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES ILA ORANGUN)
• Amy Asimah (Regional Maritime University)

ECR Campus Champions give the human cost of invisibility: work that went uncited, the difference an ORCID iD or DOI made, and what they are doing as Campus Champions to build PID literacy (for example, the Ghana team’s CARLIGH 2026 pre-conference workshop at KNUST).

Open Q&A

Call to action and close

• Omo Oaiya (WACREN)