The (nasaconline.org) Network of African Science Academies (NASAC) in collaboration with and support from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) will jointly hold a Consultative Forum on Open Access: Towards high level interventions for research and development in Africa on January 28-29 in Nairobi, Kenya.

Rosemary Otando (EIFL Country and Open Access Coordinator in Kenya) and Paul Muneja (EIFL country and Open Access Coordinator in Tanzania), will attend and will present the results of the “Open Access: knowledge sharing and sustainable scholarly communication in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda” project. It was implemented by EIFL and our partner consortia: Kenya Library & Information Services Consortium (KLISC), Consortium for Tanzania Universities and Research Libraries (COTUL) and Consortium of Uganda University Libraries (CUUL) and funded by Spider, the Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions DSV, Department of Computer and System Sciences, Stockholm University.

See more information about the project here and a project spotlight here.