In recognition of the need for the community to acquire the necessary skills to support the promotion of open and reproducible scientific research, WACREN will host a 10-day e-research hackfest in Lagos, Nigeria.
The event is supported by the European Commission through WACREN participation in the Horizon 2020 Sci-GaIA and AfricaConnect2 projects.
Background
The main objective of the hackfest is to integrate scientific use cases through a pervasive adoption of web technologies and standards and make them available to their end users through Science Gateways (entities connected to distributed computing, data and services of interest to the Community of Practice the end users belong to).
Institutions and applicants from the region who couldn’t participate in the Sci-GaIA e-Research Summer Hackfest which took place at the University of Catania, Italy in July 2016 now have the opportunity to do so closer to home and are invited to apply.
Venue and dates
The hackfest will take place on 21-30 November 2016 at the Lagos State University (Department of Computer Science), Ojo, Lagos.
Selected candidates' checklists
In order to ensure that the selected candidates are ready at the start of the hackfest, we've prepared a series of checklists for the hackfest. These should be done before coming to Lagos.
