<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="">Members of the CODATA International Community may be interested in the information below about a workshop 'Towards a Data Infrastructure Framework’, convened by the African Open Science Platform project at the UbuntuNetConnect 2017, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1 November 2017.<br class=""><br class="">With very best wishes,<br class=""><br class="">Simon.<br class=""><div class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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; 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; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; 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="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="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="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="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="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="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><div class=""><b class="">Announcing <a href="http://www.codata.org/events/conferences/international-data-week-2018" class="">International Data Week 2018</a> 22-26 October, Gaborone, Botswana</b></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;" class=""><br class=""></div></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="">Papers from SciDataCon 2016, part of International Data Week, Denver, Colorado now available in the <a href="https://datascience.codata.org/collections/special/scidatacon/" class=""><b class="">CODATA Data Science Journal</b></a><br 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="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="">Film about <a href="https://vimeo.com/232209813" class="">CODATA-RDA School of Research Data Science 2017, ICTP, Trieste: #DataTrieste</a> from Studio Cosico</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>What has CODATA delivered recently? See the CODATA Prospectus: Strategy and Achievement, 2015-2017 (Second Edition) <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1034217" class="">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1034217</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></div></div></div></div></div></div>
</div>
<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="">African Science <<a href="mailto:africaopenscience@gmail.com" class="">africaopenscience@gmail.com</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="">Towards a Data Infrastructure Framework, UbuntuNetConnect 2017, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1 November 2017</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="">1 November 2017 at 16:37:40 GMT+3<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><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.25in;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;" class="">Dear all</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.25in;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;" class="">Presentations available at: <a href="http://africanopenscience.org.za/?p=594" target="_blank" class="">http://africanopenscience.org.<wbr class="">za/?p=594</a></span></p><div style="font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;" class="">The African Open Science Platform partnered with the organisers of the</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)" class=""> <a href="https://events.ubuntunet.net/" target="_blank" style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:0px;word-wrap:break-word" class=""><span style="color:rgb(30,115,190);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;text-decoration-line:none" class="">UbuntuNetConnect 2017 conference</span></a> </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;" class="">and hosted a workshop – focusing on data infrastructure and capacity building – to 65 participants from all over Africa. From previous workshops presented, it was evident that Ethiopia faces the same needs in terms of open science policy, infrastructure to exchange and make data openly available, and capacity building.</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;" class="">Prof. Afework Kassu (State Minister for Science and Technology, Ethiopia) welcomed all, and during his opening made the comment that openness should be embraced towards global peace. He further said that we need to lay the foundation for future citizens. We also need universities and industries to work together to promote further innovations. The important role of digital library systems to benefit students and staff was highlighted. A Science Cloud, and Science Cafes in the city for citizens to benefit from, are just two of the very successful initiatives. He ended by saying that Africa needs a continental strategy for Science and Technology towards addressing the objectives of the</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)" class=""> <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiNttPqqp3XAhXFBBoKHWEuAnoQFggsMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.un.org%2Fen%2Fafrica%2Fosaa%2Fpdf%2Fau%2Fagenda2063.pdf&usg=AOvVaw22hlvdvvBHu1AIe0JXB-d8" target="_blank" style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:0px;word-wrap:break-word" class=""><span style="color:rgb(30,115,190);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;text-decoration-line:none" class="">United Nations 2036 agenda</span></a>.</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;" class="">View the </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)" class=""><a href="https://events.ubuntunet.net/indico/event/15/" target="_blank" style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:0px;word-wrap:break-word" class=""><span style="color:rgb(30,115,190);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;text-decoration-line:none" class="">workshop programme by clicking here</span></a>.</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif" class=""><font class="">Kind regards</font></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif" class=""><font class="">Ina (on behalf of AOSP Team)</font></span></div></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
-- <br class="">
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "African Open Science Platform" group.<br class="">
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to <a href="mailto:african-open-science-platform+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com" class="">african-open-science-platform+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a>.<br class="">
To post to this group, send email to <a href="mailto:african-open-science-platform@googlegroups.com" class="">african-open-science-platform@googlegroups.com</a>.<br class="">
To view this discussion on the web visit <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/african-open-science-platform/CAFM7MjHJq_CynaZq6zCjg9Cj6Ci82Ha_h4AVv3iW06ogZwDrkA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer" class="">https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/african-open-science-platform/CAFM7MjHJq_CynaZq6zCjg9Cj6Ci82Ha_h4AVv3iW06ogZwDrkA%40mail.gmail.com</a>.<br class="">
For more options, visit <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/optout" class="">https://groups.google.com/d/optout</a>.<br class="">
</div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>