<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">This last call for papers for the UbuntuNet Conference may be of interest to members of the CODATA International Community in Africa or working on issues related to the theme of the conference and the sub-themes as described below.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The deadline is 31 August. Further information is below.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">With very best wishes,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Simon.</div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">
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text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">___________________________<br class=""></div><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><b class="">Register for CODATA 2017 International Conference, ‘Global Challenges and Data-Driven Research’, Saint-Petersburg, 8-13 October: <a href="http://codata2017.gcras.ru/" class="">http://codata2017.gcras.ru/</a><br class=""></b><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Apply for CODATA-RDA School of Research Data Science, São Paulo, 4-15 December 2017, <a href="http://www.codata.org/news/193/62/Apply-for-CODATA-RDA-School-of-Research-Data-Science-Sao-Paolo-4-15-December-2017-Deadline-22-September" class="">Deadline 22 September</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="http://africanopenscience.org.za/?page_id=286" class="">International Workshop on Open Data for Sustainable Development Goals in Developing Countries</a>, Antananarivo, Madagascar: a collaboration between the Madagascar Ministry of Ecology, Environment and Forestry, the <a href="http://africanopenscience.org.za/" class="">African Open Science Platform</a> project and the <a href="http://www.codata.org/task-groups/preservation-of-and-access-to-scientific-and-technical-data-in-for-with-developing-countries-pastd" class="">CODATA PASTD Task Group</a>:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>see the excellent <a href="http://africanopenscience.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/workshop_program_5-6sept.pdf" class="">programme for the main workshop</a>.</div><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div>What has CODATA delivered recently? See the CODATA Prospectus: Strategy and Achievement, 2015-2016 <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.165830" class="">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.165830</a><br class="">___________________________</div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dr Simon Hodson | Executive Director CODATA | <a href="http://www.codata.org" class="">http://www.codata.org</a><br class=""><br class="">E-Mail: <a href="mailto:simon@codata.org" class="">simon@codata.org</a> | Twitter: @simonhodson99 | Skype: simonhodson99<br class="">Tel (Office): +33 1 45 25 04 96 | Tel (Cell): +33 6 86 30 42 59<br class=""><br class="">CODATA (Committee on Data of the International Council for Science), 5 rue Auguste Vacquerie, 75016 Paris, FRANCE<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Ina Smith <<a href="mailto:Ina@assaf.org.za" class="">Ina@assaf.org.za</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">UbuntuNet Connect 2017 Call for Abstracts</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">13 August 2017 at 14:58:23 BST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"<a href="mailto:african-open-science-platform@googlegroups.com" class="">african-open-science-platform@googlegroups.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:african-open-science-platform@googlegroups.com" class="">african-open-science-platform@googlegroups.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: GillSans; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://events.ubuntunet.net/indico/event/10/call-for-abstracts/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://events.ubuntunet.net/indico/event/10/call-for-abstracts/</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td style="padding: 0.75pt;" class=""><p align="center" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: orange;" class="">Enabling Intra-African Collaboration in Research and Education</span></b><b class=""><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 140, 0);" class="">2<sup class="">nd</sup> - 3<sup class="">rd</sup> November 2017, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia</span></b><b class=""><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">Call for Papers</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">Authors are invited to submit abstracts for presentation at UbuntuNet-Connect 2017, the 10<sup class="">th</sup>Annual Conference of the UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networking. The UbuntuNet-Connect series of conferences has been held for the past nine years and is regarded as one of the premier conferences in Africa. UbuntuNet-Connect 2017 will take place from 2 to 3 November 2017 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and will be hosted by the NREN of Ethiopia, <a href="http://www.ethernet.edu.et/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(11, 99, 165);" class="">EthERNet</span></a>.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">The theme of UbuntuNet-Connect 2017 is:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><em class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">“Enabling Intra-African Collaboration in Research and Education”</span></b></em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">Purposeful collaboration between independent persons or entities is interesting and important at any level. Collaboration occurs at grass roots level, as it were, between individuals as educators and/or researchers. It occurs between institutions, within countries and also across national borders. Research collaborations range from the mere sharing of ideas and authorship of scholarly papers to the joint planning, investment in and participation in complex investigations and experiments.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">Most NRENs are founded as non-profit making entities to give structure and legal persona to the systematic efforts of their nations’ universities and research institutions to interconnect with each other and collaboratively provide and share REN services. Library consortia attempt, through sharing, to gain access to scholarly publications for their reader communities. The well-known Wi-Fi roaming service called eduroam is an impressive example of purposeful, well managed collaboration between the universities of many countries on several continents. Identity federations are dramatically facilitating the access of researchers to remote resources.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">Of course, the Internet itself is a stunning example of a massive global infrastructure that is collaboratively operated by thousands of independent network operators.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">The NRENs and the three regional RENs of Africa (<a href="http://www.asrenorg.net/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(11, 99, 165);" class="">ASREN</span></a>, <a href="http://www.ubuntunet.net/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(11, 99, 165);" class="">UbuntuNet Alliance</span></a> and <a href="http://www.wacren.net/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(11, 99, 165);" class="">WACREN</span></a>) have crucial roles to play, individually and collaboratively, in enabling collaboration between individual educators and researchers and between education and research institutions in Africa. UbuntuNet Alliance hopes that UbuntuNet-Connect 2017 will elucidate the complexities, clarify the requirements and inspire all players to invest effort in and<a name="_GoBack" class=""></a> realise the benefits of collaboration.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">Abstracts</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">Papers should preferably address the sub-themes described below. However, prospective authors are encouraged to submit any contribution that is interesting and relevant to research and education networking.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">Sub-Theme 1: How collaboration works</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""><br class=""><em class=""><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;" class="">Papers could present surveys, theoretical contributions and/or case studies of purposeful collaboration in research and/or education in Africa. Authors should preferably focus on the practice of collaboration as such rather than on details of the subject matter or outputs of the collaboration. Relevant aspects of collaboration include rationales, approaches, techniques, enablers and hindrances, roles of NRENs and regional RENs, outcomes and lessons learned from successes as well as from failures.</span></em><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">Sub-Theme 2: Stimulating intra-African collaboration </span></strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""><br class=""><em class=""><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;" class="">Papers could present surveys, theoretical contributions, innovative new proposals, and/or case studies of governmental interventions, bottom-up innovations, systems and/or services that stimulate the launch of new collaborations and support ongoing collaborative activities. Relevant aspects include the governance of shared infrastructure services; how to set up and manage expensive shared resources; pricing and charging for shared service; the roles of NRENs; the roles of the regional RENs.</span></em><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">Sub-Theme 3:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""> <strong class=""><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;" class="">Technical support required for intra-African collaboration</span></strong><br class=""><em class=""><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;" class="">Papers could present surveys, theoretical contributions, technical analyses, innovative new proposals, and/or case studies of infrastructure deployments, systems and/or services that enable the launch of new collaborations and support ongoing collaborative activities. Relevant aspects include the technical management of shared infrastructure services; connectivity and associated value-added services that support intra-African collaboration; analyses of usage patterns, network data flows and other indicators of intra-African REN activity; interconnecting the regional RENs.</span></em><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">Invitation to submit Abstracts</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">Prospective authors are invited to submit abstracts of at most 500 words that clearly indicate the key messages to be shared. Abstracts should be <a href="https://events.ubuntunet.net/indico/event/10/call-for-abstracts/submit" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(11, 99, 165);" class="">submitted online</span></a>, to arrive no later than Thursday 31st August 2017.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">Collaboratively authored contributions are encouraged and welcome. All abstracts will be double-blind-peer-reviewed by an international panel. 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