Announcement for the Call of Abstracts for the 4th IASSIST Africa Regional Workshop:
Date: 23rd – 26th October 2024
Host: Parliament of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
Main theme: “Transforming Africa Through Data: Innovations, Governance, and Sustainable Development”
The IASSIST Fellows Program is pleased to announce that it will be accepting applications for financial support to attend the 4thIASSIST Africa Regional Workshop 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya from data professionals who are developing, supporting and managing data infrastructures at their home institutions.
Fellows Program is pleased to announce that it will be accepting applications for financial support to attend the 4thIASSIST Africa Regional Workshop 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya from data professionals who are developing, supporting and managing data infrastructures at their home institutions.
Sub Themes
- Data Management and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s)
- AI and Machine Learning in African Development
- Data Management, Legislation and Governance
- Data-driven Public Service Delivery
- Data Management, Climate Change, and Food Security
- Data Privacy, Protection and Management in Research
- Open Data and Transparency
- Libraries, Indigenous, Knowledge, and Open Science
- Innovative practices in research data management – new methods, technologies, and approaches
- Collaborative Data Platforms
- Data archiving, discovery, access, and metadata
Submission of Abstracts:
Abstracts related to the workshop theme and sub-themes are invited to be submitted for this workshop. An extended abstract of 1000 words should be submitted online on this: >> click here
Selected full papers will be invited for publication in the IASSIST IQ Journal, more information can be found on this https://iassistquarterly.com/index.php/iassist
Important Dates:
Workshop : 23rd – 26th October 2024
Abstract Submission Deadline : 1st August 2024
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection : 10th August 2024
Further enquiries:
Programme co-chairs :
- Harrison Owino
- Andrew Mankone
- Robert Buwule