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• Introductory Statement
• The context:  Foundational projects

Introductory Statement

One of the key drivers of this project has been an understanding which has evolved over the last two years, that donors need to work together across projects. This has resulted in the projects – termed the Foundational Projects – that we’ve been doing over the past two years have meshed with one another: the outcomes of one project have fed into another; the perceptions of a project will influence the implementation process of another.

This is an informal relationship which is more a network of understanding and the sharing of findings.

The goal of this workshop is help formulate a project plan for the proposed Scholarly Communication and Access to Knowledge in Africa Project. The plan will cover multiple perspectives on scholarly publishing in Africa, and to devise a way forward.

The formal statement of the workshop is thus to:

develop an action research proposal directed at studying the ways and means for organisations and institutions to work in new ways to further scholarly communication and the generating and sharing of research.

Related workshop video:

Eve Gray: Valuing Scholarship: Scholarly Publishing and the Knowledge Divide