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| Publication Date: 07/31/2025 Greetings from UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networking. Please receive our NUANCE Newsletter, detailing our activites and annoucements for the past month. Feel free to share the newsletter with your colleagues who may find it useful but are not on our mailing list.  Final Month to Take Advantage of Early Bird Registration for UbuntuNet-Connect 2025!By Harold Bowa on Jul 28, 2025 05:11 pm  The countdown has begun! With just one month remaining until early bird registration closes, now is the time to secure your spot for UbuntuNet-Connect 2025, the premier annual gathering of research and education networking stakeholders in Eastern and Southern Africa. This year’s conference will take place from 30–31 October 2025 in Harare, Zimbabwe, under the …Final Month to Take Advantage of Early Bird Registration for UbuntuNet-Connect 2025! Read More »Upcoming Webinar: Crossref Services for Librarians and Journal EditorsBy Harold Bowa on Jul 22, 2025 12:07 pm  UbuntuNet Alliance is pleased to invite librarians and journal editors across Eastern and Southern Africa to an insightful webinar titled “Crossref Services for Librarians and Journal Editors.” This session is part of the Alliance’s strategic partnership with Crossref under its growing Partnership Programme, aimed at empowering the research and education community with cutting-edge tools and …Upcoming Webinar: Crossref Services for Librarians and Journal Editors Read More » Onboarding Participants to Phase I of the Third Women Hackathon 2025By Harold Bowa on Jul 22, 2025 11:38 am  The Women Hackathon 2025 Phase One (virtual) is here with us! This follows a competitive selection of 63 young women in STEM, organised in 21 teams, from a pool of 93 concept submissions that were received. The hackathon 2025, themed “Innovations for climate change, adaptation and mitigation,” seeks to address the gap in innovations supporting …Onboarding Participants to Phase I of the Third Women Hackathon 2025 Read More »Welcoming New Leadership: Board Induction Training Held at UbuntuNet AllianceBy Harold Bowa on Jul 22, 2025 11:09 am  UbuntuNet Alliance was pleased to host a two-day orientation training for its newly appointed Board of Trustees from 17th to 18th July 2025 at its Secretariat in Lilongwe, Malawi. The induction, facilitated by E Square Consultancy Services, marked a significant step in equipping the Board with essential tools to effectively steer the Alliance’s strategic and …Welcoming New Leadership: Board Induction Training Held at UbuntuNet Alliance Read More »Crossref Joins the UbuntuNet Alliance Partnership Programme!By Harold Bowa on Jul 16, 2025 12:26 pm  UbuntuNet Alliance is excited to announce a year-long strategic partnership with Crossref, a global leader in scholarly metadata and digital identifiers. This collaboration is part of the recently launched UbuntuNet Alliance Partnership Programme, which was recently launched to create beneficial opportunities between the Alliance community and organizations invested in strengthening research and education across Africa. …Crossref Joins the UbuntuNet Alliance Partnership Programme! Read More » HAL: The French National Open Archive Within the Global Open Science Ecosystem, an African Perspective.By Harold Bowa on Jul 14, 2025 06:14 pm  HAL is the French national open archive managed by the Centre for Direct Scientific Communication at CNRS, providing researchers and institutions with tools for submitting, discovering, and sharing academic publications across disciplines and languages. On April 10, 2025, HAL was featured in the AfricArXiv Open Science Webinar series, hosted by UbuntuNet Alliance and Access2perspectives with …HAL: The French National Open Archive Within the Global Open Science Ecosystem, an African Perspective. Read More » Spotlight on APOS Democratizing African ResearchBy Harold Bowa on Jul 14, 2025 05:30 pm  On July 3rd, 2025 the AfricArXiv Open Science Webinar series welcomed attendees to a session on the African Platform for Open Scholarship (APOS). This webinar series is organized by UbuntuNet Alliance and Access2perspectives with support from the African Open Science Platform. This webinar series aims to showcase initiatives that advance open knowledge sharing across the …Spotlight on APOS Democratizing African Research Read More » |
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