[okfn-za] Cameron Neylon in Cape Town

Thu Jul 26 10:58:31 UTC 2012

Hi everyone,

UCT has organised a discussion with Cameron Neylon and others if you are
interested. See invitation below.

That does not by any means mean you can't arrange another meetup though.
Jump right in Carolina.

Karien

*Global participation in e-research and scholarly communication: Open
access strategies for African institutions*

What are the emerging trends in e-research, scholarly communication and
open access?
What do these trends mean for institutions?
What is the role of open access in the context of development?**
What does the university need to do to align itself as a global research
partner?

The Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme (SCAP), OpenUCT and
Berlin10 invite you to a seminar and discussion on the key trends in
addressing impact, development and policy in new forms of e-research and
open access dissemination. Featuring presentations by international experts
Alma Swan, Cameron Neylon and Leslie Chan, the seminar provides an
opportunity to discuss the issues with global thought leaders in the area
of open access and scholarly communication.

*Date:* Friday 10 August 2012*
Venue:* African Studies Gallery*
Time:* 1–4pm

The event will be opened by UCT Vice Chancellor Dr Max Price.
Please join us for a light lunch at 12h00.

RSVP to Thomas King <thomas.king at uct.ac.za> by Monday 6 August.

*This is an official pre-event to the international Berlin10 open access
conference ‘**Networked scholarship in a networked world: Participation in
Open Access’, Stellenbosch, 6–8 November 2012.*

http://www.scaprogramme.org.za/

http://openuct.uct.ac.za/

http://www.berlin10.org/programme.html

On 26 July 2012 12:43, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:

> Carolina,
>
> Very exciting.
>
> By the way I think you could jump in and boot this meetup directly
> (you don't need to be the existing organizer). Just go to the meetup
> page and boot a new meetup:
>
> http://www.meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeFoundation/Cape-Town/
>
> Rufus
>
> On 26 July 2012 11:26, Carolina Ödman <carolina.odman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear OFN-za community,
> >
> > Cameron Neylon, a good friend and open science advocate is visiting
> > Cape Town in August. I thought this might be the perfect opportunity
> > to organise another meetup. Mark told me someone else had taken over
> > the organisation of meetups - please get in touch :) I look forward to
> > hearing form you.
> >
> > More info about Cameron: http://cameronneylon.net/
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Carolina
> >
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