Feature on the Darakht-e-Danesh online library in Afghanistan Co-ordination of Open Research training efforts R4D PI Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams participated in a Skype call on 2 Feb with Beck Pitt (Co-author on the
HabariTek January review Global Survey on the Quality of MOOCs Year of Open perspective for February is Open Source Software OE Global – one month to go Webinar on Growing Open Data in Africa starts 6 Jan All the best for this week Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams and the ROER4D Network Hub team.
The January 2017 issue of HabariTek is available. HabariTek is monthly knowledge sharing and resource blog for the grantees and staff of IDRC’s Networked Economies (NE) Program. Interesting articles, links and resources cover topics such as algorithms, big data, Open Data and ICT4D.
This Global Survey aims at improving the Quality of MOOCs and is facilitated by the
The Year of Open perspective for February is Open Source Software (OSS). The perspective features examples of OSS, with personal interviews with the founders, co-founders, or designers. The Year of Open to celebrate the positive impacts that open practices have brought to education, government, research and business.
The
A reminder that ROER4D’s Data Administrator and Curation Specialist Thomas King will share ROER4D’s experiences of publishing open data and provide advice for researchers who are just getting started with curating and sharing their data as part of an e/Merge Africa network. The event runs 6-10 February 2017 and sign-up is currently open.