Africa: Open Access Week 2012

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.

'''This is not an exhaustive list of countries. If you want to add your event and your country is not listed here feel free to add it in alphabetical order. '''

Botswana

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Egypt

 * Contact: Mandy Taha
 * Location: Faculty of Science, Faculty of Engineerig and the Library of Alexandria
 * Link for more details, if available: Open Access Week in Egypt, 2012 - October 22, 2012 at 3pm to October 28, 2012 at 7pm. In honor of the sixth annual global Open Access Week, from October 22-28 organized by Mandy Taha. A series of lectures and seminars, and a forum are going to be launched with the aim of raising awareness of open access for Egyptian students, faculty, and librarians. It also aim to provide scholars with the widest possible access to their research.


 * Contact: Mandy Taha
 * Location: Science Faculty, Chatby St., Alexandria
 * Link for more details, if available: Open Access? Get more citations! - October 19, 2010 all day. Inroducing OA movement to researchers and faculty staff. Alexandria University


 * Contact: Mandy Taha
 * Location: Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Miamy St., Alexandria
 * Link for more details, if available: Open Access for Students and Young Researchers - October 20, 2010 from 6pm to 8pm. Introducing open access to students and young researchers. Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport


 * Contact: Mandy Taha
 * Location: Library of Alexandria
 * Link for more details, if available: Open Access: Learn, Share and Build on - October 17, 2010 from 4pm to 6pm. The objective of open access week in Egypt is to create awareness and promote understanding and adoption of the open access movement. A series of activities and lectures. Organized by Mandy A. Taha The New Library of Alexandria


 * Contact: Mandy Taha and Hala Essalmawi
 * Location: University of Alexandria, Chatby St., Alexandria, Egypt
 * Link for more details, if available: Introduction to Open Access and Author Copyright in the Digital Ea. - October 18, 2010 to October 19, 2010. The objective of open access week in Egypt is to create awareness and promote understanding and adoption of the open access movement and author rights among researchers and staff faculty. A series of activities and lectures Organized by Mandy A. Taha "Author rights" by Hala Essalmawi. Alexandria University

Ethiopia

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Ghana

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Kenya

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Mali

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Mozambique

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Nigeria

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South Africa
Creative Commons licences are arguably the most widely used open licences available for literary and musical works. Through a series of different licences, Creative Commons licences allow content creators to keep or give away a variety of rights under copyright law.
 * Contact: Elsabe Olivier
 * Location: Conference Hall 100, Hatfield Campus, University of Pretoria
 * Link for more details, if available: Open up your research with the Creative Commons license (copyright option)! - October 21, 2010 from 12:30pm to 3pm. The University of Pretoria has invited Dr Tobias Schonwetter, legal head of Creative Commons South Africa, to give a presentation on the impact of the Creative Commons licenses on Open Access and what Creative Commons is doing to build an ecosystem of openness.

Dr Tobias Schonwetter is a postdoctoral research fellow. Tobias studied and practised law in Germany and San Francisco, USA and holds PhD and LLM (with distinction) degrees from UCT. He specialises in copyright-related issues and is a country lead researcher and one of the Principal Investigators for the African Copyright and Access to Knowledge (ACA2K) project.


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