Programme

09h00 to 13h00

LIBSENSE/AfREN Workshop

Omo Oaiya
REN facilitators, Nigeria

14h00 to 17h00

Message from the Vice Chancellor of UCT

Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng
Vice Chancellor: University of Cape Town

Welcome from UCT Libraries

Ms Ujala Satgoor
Executive Director: UCT Libraries

Welcome from SPARC

Dr Lorraine Haricombe
Vice Provost and Director of the University of Texas Libraries

Conference Keynote

Professor Thuli Madonsela
Chair in Social Justice at Stellenbosch University

09h00 to 10h50

Towards an Open and Equitable Future

Heather Joseph
Executive Director of SPARC

Open Access and Social Justice

Caroline Ncube
Professor in Commercial Law and South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI), UCT

Open Access in Latin America: a Social Justice Perspective (virtual presentation)

Carolina Botero Cabrera
Executive Director, Karisma Foundation

11h15 to 13h00

Transforming Research Landscape in Africa using Open Access: The Case of Ethiopia 

Solomon Mekonnen
Librarian, Addis Ababa University Library

Think Global, Act Local: Building a Sustainable and Inclusive System for Scholarly Communication

Kathleen Shearer 
Executive Director of COAR

Growth of African Research, Equity in Access and Dissemination of African content - the Catalysts

Dr Helena Asamoah-Hassan
Executive Director, AfLIA

Structural Power and Knowledge Inequity: What Roles for Open Access? (virtual presentation)

Associate Professor Leslie Chan
Associate Professor, Critical Development Studies, University of Toronto
Scarborough, Canada

14h00 to 15h45

Positioning Open Access in a Transformative Paradigm

Lena Nyahodza
PhD Candidate, Department of Knowledge and Information Stewardship, UCT

The Openness Movement and Development in Africa Within the Context of Inclusive Education

Dr Nkem Osuigwe
Human Capacity Development and Training, AfLIA

Open Scholarship: Four Cases

Osman Aldirdiri
Medical Student, University of Khartoum

Experiences in Open Research and Education for Sustainable Development in Africa

Professor Mary Abukutsa-Onyango
Deputy Vice Chancellor: Research, Production and Extension
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology

16h10 to 17h45

Negotiating Equitable Systems for Open Education

Associate Professor Maha Bali
Associate Professor of Practice, Center for Learning and Teaching
American University in Cairo

Access is Not Enough

Ahmed Ogunlaja

The Necessity of an Endogenous Action Based on Open Science: Towards an Equitable Research System in African Countries

Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou
APSOHA, AFRICAOSH, MboaLab

09h00 to 10h45

Ask Thyself C21st Questions

Associate Professor Dick Ng'ambi
School of Education, UCT

Farmers Access to Climate Information for SDG Goals in Climate Change and Food Security

Dr Daniel Murgor
University of Eldoret, Kenya

Open Access in Sudan

Dr Rania Baleela
Assistant Professor
University of Khartoum, Sudan

The Library as Enabler: Open Access and the SDGs

Jayshree Mamtora
Research Services Coordinator, Charles Darwin University

11h05 to 12h50

Different Objectives of Journal Indexing Services in Quality Control of Scholarly Publishing: Inclusiveness Versus Exclusiveness

Dr Tom Olijhoek
Editor in Chief, DOAJ

Reforming Education One Text Book at a Time

Roxanne Missingham
University Librarian, Australian National University

What Role Can Open Science Play in Enabling Global Knowledge Exchange?

Dr Johanna Havemann
Co-Founder of AfricArxiv

Library as Publisher: Who Takes the Lead? A Valued Disruption

Jill Claassen
Section Manager: Scholarly Communications, UCT Libraries

14:00 to 14h55

A Conversation

Joshua Neds-Fox
Coordinator for Digital Publishing, Wayne State University
Representative of Library Publishing Coalition
USA

Jason Nugent
Public Knowledge Project
Canada

15h10 to 16h55

Open Access Developments in India and Why India Skipped Plan S

Madhan Muthu
Azim Premji University, India

Plan S: Toward Full and Immediate Open Access, an Inclusive Approach

Nei Jacobs
Interim Programme Manager, cOAlitionS

Unbuckling the Subscription Model: a South African Perspective

Ellen Tise
Senior Director, Stellenbosch University Library

Glenn Truran
Director, SANLiC

That Value of the Scholarly-led, Non-profit Business Model to Achieve Open Access and Scholarly Publishing Beyond APC: the AmeliCA's Cooperative Approach

Dr Arianna Becerril-García
Executive Director at Redalyc.org
Professor at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico