SARUA 2007 : OPEN ACCESS LEADERSHIP SUMMIT
20 and 21 November 2007, Gaborone, Botswana
Day 1, Conference
ASSAf Report: A Strategic Approach to Research Publishing in South Africa
Prof Wieland Gevers
Executive Office
Academy of Science
South Africa
Session 1 - Open Access & Developing Country Research
Research Publication Policy in Africa and the Global Knowledge Divide
Ms Eve Gray
Honorary Research Associate
Centre for Educational Technology
University of Cape Town
If Only African Science Were Out There! Why Open Access Is The Answer
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Human Rights Implications of Open Access Models
Ms Amanda Barratt
Law Librarian
University of Cape Town
Session 2 - Open Access Initiatives
ASSAf Report: A Strategic Approach to Research Publishing in South Africa
Prof. Wieland Gevers
Executive Officer
Academy of Science of South Africa
Ms Allison Fullard
Research Librarian
Centre for the Study of Higher Education
University of Western Cape
Centering the Knowledge Peripheries through Open Access
Mr Leslie Chan
Associate Director of Bioline International
Toronto University
Canada
Mr Samuel Smith Esseh
University of British Columbia
The Public Knowledge Project
Canada
Session 3 - Intellectual Property & Open Access
Mr Wend Wendland
Head, Traditional Creativity
Cultural Expressions and Cultural Heritage Section
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Geneva, Switzerland
Open Access and the Public Interest in Copyright
Prof Enyinna Nwauche
African Legal Studies
River States University
Port Harcourt
Nigeria
Social Justice and Open Access : An African Perspective
Prof Johannes Britz
Professor & Dean
School of Information Studies
University of Wisconsin
Milwaukee
USA
Day 2 : Conference
Dr Christina Lloyd
Head of Teaching and Learner Support
The Open University
UK
Session 1 : Institutional Repositories
Institutional Repositories: Why they are important for African Research
Dr Hussein Suleman
Senior Lecturer in Computer Sciences
University of Cape Town
Institutional Repositories: a new platform in Higher Education and Research
Dr Leo Waaijers
Manager of SURFshare
The Netherlands
Getting buy-in from faculty and management : the UP success story
Ms Monica Hammes
Asst Director
Scholarship Issues and Quality Assurance
Academic Information Service
University of Pretoria
SA
AFRICA: Setting up Institutional Repositories
Ms Susan Veldsman
Electronic Information for Libraries Network (eIFL.net)
Session 2 : Regional Overview
Open Access Initiatives and Success Stories in Zimbabwe
Mr Jasper Maenzanise
Library and Information Services
Zimbabwe Open university
Open Access means no walls : Moving towards Education 3.0
Prof Derek Keats
UWC
SA
Open Access in the Balance: the future of scholarly online content
Dr Dale Peters
UKZN
DISA
Publishing a Nutrition Journal in Africa : The case of AJFAND in Kenya
Ms Laura Agaba Byaruhanga
Rural Outreach Programme
Nairobi
Kenya
Mr Dick Kawooya
School of Information Studies
University of Wisconsin
Milwaukee
USA
Session 3 : Access to Knowledge Movement
Introducing the African Access to Knowledge Alliance (AAKA)
Ms Denise Nicholson
University of Witwatersrand
SA
Mr Thutolaganyo Thutoetsile
Botswana College of Distance Learning
Charles Batambuze
National Book Trust of Uganda and AAKA
Session 4 : Mapping the way forward
Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town