Programme

SPARC Africa Open Access Symposium Provisional Programme: 2 – 6 December 2019

Theme: Open Access and social justice driving African development

Workshops (Day 1 & 2)

1. Developing curricula for Library as Publisher (2 days)
2. Publishing platform development (1 day)
   Libsense ( workshop (1 day)
3. Editors’ workshop (2 days)

Symposium (Day 3 & 4)

Day 3: Open access and social justice

Session 1: Opening session and keynote

Session 2: Open access and social justice

Session 3: Access versus participation

Day 4: Open access, social justice and African development

Session 4: Open access and African development: a conceptual interrogation

Session 5: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within an open access paradigm

1. Good health
2. Food security
3. Quality higher education

Session 6: Towards developing an African open access publishing model

Session 7: Open publishing advancing African development

1. Launch of African publishing platform

Business meetings (Day 5)

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