A presentation made at the UNESCO workshop on Open Access in Africa, Pretoria, 22-23 November 2010, co-sponsored by the Academy of Science of South Africa and EiFL
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Publishing Development Research and Adding Value
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Access to Africa’s
knowledge
Publishing development research and
measuring value
2. Eve Gray (2010):Access to Africa’s Knowledge:
Publishing Development Research and MeasuringValue.
The African Journal of Information and Communication
Thematic Issue on A2K in Africa, Issue 10 2009/ 2010
http://link.wits.ac.za/journal/journal.html
4. 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
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10. but we are still caught
up with old paradigms...
11. “Over the last few decades, some things
have not changed.There’s been no
significant break in relations of knowledge
production between the colonial and
post-colonial eras.African universities are
essentially consumers of knowledge
produced in developed countries.”
Blade Nzimande, UNESCO World
Conference on Higher Education 2009
13. 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
14. National policies tend to
favour what Sir John Daniel at
the UNESCO conference
called ‘poles of superior quality’
rather than ‘the public good’
15. We measure impact factors
and citations in a highly
competitive and exclusionary
system
25. Is the problem what is being
produced, or what is being
measured?
26.
27. It is not that our policy-
makers do not see the
problem...
28. 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.
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• 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
53. How do we develop
value systems, rewards
and recognition to
support development
54. 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