SPIDER (the Swedish Programme for ICT in Developing Regions) has invited Rima Kupryte, EIFL Director, and Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, to take part in SPIDER DINE (Digital Impact and Networking Event). 

On 24 March Kuchma will give a short presentation on the topic, Building and sustaining regional collaboration. On 25 March, during a panel on Partnerships and Networks for Impact: Regional Collaboration, Kuchma will share experiences from EIFL partner library consortia that have been engaging in open access work. An EIFL project in East Africa funded by SPIDER ended in 2019. 

SPIDER DINE is a digital conference on the impact of digital transformation on global development in the past 10 years while looking ahead to 2030.  SPIDER is based at DSV, Department of Computer and System Sciences, which is part of Stockholm University.