Eve Gray, Honorary Research Associate, Centre for Educational Technology, Associate, Intellectual Property Law and Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town and Michelle Willmers, Programme Manager, Scholarly Communications in Africa Programme speaking at Open Access Africa 2010
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How open access to research can strategically benefit African universities
1. How Open Access can
strategically benefit
African Universities
Paper presented at the Biomed Central
Open Access in Africa Conference
Kenyatta University, Nairobi
10-11 November 2010
2. How Open Access can
strategically benefit
African Universities
Eve Gray
Centre for Educational
Technology
University of Cape
Town
6. In essence, what is being defined as ‘knowledge society’
means two different things to the developed world and
the African continent.The former are the producers
and the latter are the consumers of knowledge, which
seriously undermines the fostering of the multicultural
nature of Higher Education, as virtually all partnerships
are one-sided.This is not only negative for the African
continent, but it also deprives global higher education
of access to the indigenous knowledge of Africa, and it
deprives Africans of the opportunity to develop their
indigenous knowledge system and strengthen their
relationship to western and eastern knowledge
systems.
Blade Nzimande, Minister of Higher Education and Training, South Africa
7. ʻHow could the application of knowledge end
poverty and hunger in Africa? How could higher
education empower women and promote gender
equity? How can knowledge be considered in the
African context to address child mortality and
improve maternal health?ʼ
Nahas Angula, Namibian Prime Minister, UNESCO 29th Conference on
Higher Education, 2009
9. Is the problem what is being
produced, or what is being
measured?
10.
11. We measure impact factors
and citations in a highly
competitive and exclusionary
system
12. ..and pay less attention to
the publications that
emerge from development-
focused research
13.
14. It is not that our policy-
makers do not see the
problem...
15. Blade Nzimande, UNESCO World
Conference on Higher Education 2009
Our universities, in
particular, should be
directing their research
focus to address the
development and social
needs of our communities.
The impact of their research
should be measured by how
much difference it makes to
the needs of our
communities, rather than by
just how many international
citations researchers receive
in their publications.
25. Text
• Builds on collaboration and a
tradition of collegiality
• Depends upon sharing rather than
proprietorship, access rather than
protection
• Efficiencies and economies of
collaborative development
• Networked rather than hierarchical
structures
The ethos of OA
41. The question is how to build a
scholarly communication policy
environment that addresses
the whole ecosystem.
42.
43. Eve Gray
Honorary Research Associate
Centre for Educational Technology
University of Cape Town
http://www.gray-area.co.za
http://www.http://www.sca2kafrica.org/
http://www.cet.uct.ac.za