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Mozilla Festival proposals for 2017
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Open research in Africa: barriers and potential solutions #386

Open mozfest-bot opened 7 years ago

mozfest-bot commented 7 years ago

[ UUID ] b1441819-8343-4de6-84e7-575a8033e983

[ Session Name ] Open research in Africa: barriers and potential solutions [ Primary Space ] Open Innovation

[ Submitter's Name ] Amel Ghouila [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Institut Pasteur de Tunis [ Submitter's Github ] @amelgh

[ Additional facilitators ] Peter Van Heusden,Jean-Baka Domelevo-Entfellner,Richard Smith-Unna,Azza Ahmed,Fatma Guerfali

What will happen in your session?

The aim of this session is to gather African folks and folks working on African projects or having an experience working in scientific research in Africa to present some of the initiatives that have been done so far, to discuss the issues faced and think about a new strategy to improve the working open culture.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

We would ideally come up together with a strategy that would promote the working open culture to foster innovative solutions that would help preventing different diseases and improve health outcomes among African populations for example.

Start a working open African interest group to keep the discussion going after the meeting to boost each other.

Time needed

60 mins

KirstieJane commented 7 years ago

[ Facilitator 1 Name ] Amel Ghouila [ Facilitator 1 Github ] @amelgh [ Facilitator 1 Twitter ] @AmelGhouila

Requirements

kaodro commented 7 years ago

Hi @amelgh , my name is Kasia and I work on Mozilla’s Internet Health Report. At Mozfest we will be present with an “Internet Research Hub” #618 (last comment) - an easy-going, cozy space for discussions and networking both with us about Internet Health and among researchers themselves.

We also invite anyone who does work in an Internet research field to sign up and present their work at a couple of open display tables we will have in the hub. If you would like to present something in the Hub in addition to your official session, let me know! We will promote these sessions throughout the festival. You can sign up spontaneously with pen and paper on site or if you would like to save a spot beforehand, drop me an email at kasia@mozillafoundation.org with a short description of the session.

In any case, I would like to invite you to pass by the hub and say hi. We will start with an informal "Research and coffee grinder” get-together at the beginning of the festival where people can get to know each other. Space and exact schedule for the Hub are still being decided and I will update you once we know the details. Hope to see you there!