Dear All
I have been a participant in the discussion forum for almost a year now. I
am currently a PHD researcher and web development consultant at City
University's Department of Information Science. I am also a moderator for an
online discussion forum - Africa Web Content. One of the initiatives that
has arisen from the discussion is the need to build one stop web based
information resources in number of areas for the academic and research
community in Africa to be supported by the United Nations Economic
Commission for Africa (UNECA) and other participating organisations such the
Association of African Universities (AAU) and various university and
professional libraries not just in Africa, but in Europe and other developed
countries. The first part of the initiative is to build an information
resource in the social sciences.
Is there anyone who is willing to offer a hand in the development of this
subject based or anyone with the experience of building such a resource. The
resource will more or less be based on the concepts used to build such
gateways as SOSIG, EEVL, Biz/ed etc. We are still in the formulation of the
project and if anyone has an information that can help shape this document
e.g. on technical issues, training requirements, budget and time frames that
would be really great.
If your library wants to be involved in this resource building please let me
know as well i.e. may have a catalogue of web sites in various social
science subjects related to Africa. The various subject areas that will be
focusing on are listed on the web site. Check the URL below!
Please direct all queries directly to me.
Regards,
Batsirai Mike Chivhanga
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BM Chivhanga
PHD Researcher and Web Development Consultant
The Internet Studies Research Group
Department of Information Science
City University
London EV1V OHB
Telephone: (44) 0171 477 8000 Ext. 3906
Mobile: 0788 077 3928
Fax: (44) 0171 477 8564
Web: http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~ck521/africa.htm
If anyone has been involved in a similar initiative and would like to give a
hand in this project please let me know.
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