Delegates from Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Cote D'Ivoire, Senegal, Ethiopia, Uganda, Togo, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Canada, Rwanda, Mali, Benin, Sudan, Tanzania, Malawi, Sweden, France and the US are attending the conference, which was preceded by a preliminary meeting, which focussed on Regional Research Education Networks (RRENs).
By bringing together key players in West and Central African Universities and other participants who may share their experience in forming RRENs it is expected that the meeting would also lead to the formation of the West and Central African Research Education Network.
The Open Access Conference series began in Sweden, in 2003 with the focus on regional prerequisites, communication needs, choice of technology and business model among other things. In Africa the conference was organised in Mozambique since 2005, Tanzania in 2007 and in Malawi in 2008.
References:
- Reports on NREN Establishment Processes in West and Central Africa: Benin ; Burkina Faso ; Cameroon ; Côte d'Ivoire ; Ghana ; Mali ; Niger ; Nigeria ngNREN, Ibadan ; Senegal ; Togo
- Establishing a Regional REN: Opportunities and Challenges - Experiences from the UbuntuNet Alliance ; Francis Tusubira (slides)
- FEAST, the Feasibility Study for AfricaConnect ; Bjorn Pehrson (paper, slides)
