‘Meet the Speakers’ Articles
Mr Gary Rosenberg is an Independent Consultant, contracted as Research Leader for the Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). From 2002 to 2009 he served as Director of the HSRC Press, the publishing arm of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) of South Africa. Under his leadership the HSRC Press has come to be regarded as a highly reputable publisher, distinguished itself globally as a pioneer of scholarly Open Access publishing and has won international publishing awards. He has contributed to debates on scholarly publishing in forums such as the World Social Science Forum, local and international conferences, regional workshops and has run local capacity-building initiatives. He has worked in the publishing industry for over 15 years.
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Ph. D. in history of Science (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1974) and Professor at the University of Montreal, Jean-Claude Guédon must have been among the very first users of the Net in the humanities as he began to explore the Internet ca. 1988. Through his understanding of the power of the Net, he designed and launched an electronic scholarly journal in the humanities in 1991, Surfaces, which was the first e-journal in Canada.
He was involved with the Internet Society as a member or co-chair of the program committee for the worldwide Inet meetings between 1995 and 2002 (co-chair in 1996, 1998, and 2000). In 1996, he also published a minor best-seller on the Internet in France (La planète cyber (Gallimard, 1996); 2nd edition under the title: Internet. Le monde en réseau in 2000.)
He acted as chair of the Advisory Board of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) until 2001, and also worked with NDLTD, an organization promoting the publication of theses and dissertations on-line
He has been involved in the growing debates surrounding the issue of open access to the world’s scientific literature. One of the drafters and initial signatories of the Budapest Initiative, he was a member of the Information Program Sub-Board of the Open Society Institute from 2002 until 2006. This membership also led him to be a member of the Board of eIFL, an organization committed to supporting libraries in developing and transition countries.
In 2006 until 2008, he was vice-president of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
He was also one of the founding members of AFUL, an organization for users of free software in French-speaking countries.
Beside teaching and publishing, he is regularly invited to lecture all over the world. He was guest professor at the University of Sao Paulo in 2008 and scholar in residence at the Institute for Information Law (University of Amsterdam in 2010.)
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Colin Steele is Emeritus Fellow of the Australian National University. Previously, he was Director of Scholarly Information Strategies (2002-2003); University Librarian ANU (1980-2002); Deputy Librarian ANU (1976-1980); and Assistant Librarian at the Bodleian Library, Oxford (1967-1976).
He is the Convenor of the National Scholarly Communications Forum and in September 2009 was the Convenor of the National Academies Forum on Excellence in Research Evaluation, Impacts on Scholarship, Research Funding and Publications. He is the author/editor of 7 books, as well as over three hundred articles and reviews. He is a regular reviewer for several journals as well as the Canberra Times. He is on the board of several international journals, including The Journal of Librarianship and Information Science. He has been an invited keynote speaker in 7 countries, most recently in South Africa in June 2009.
In 1984 he was awarded the Knight Cross of Queen Isabella La Catolica of Spain for services to Hispanic culture. In 1998 he was awarded a Fellowship by both the British and Australian Library Associations, only the sixth double Fellowship in history. In 2001 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and in 2002 received the Australian Centenary Medal for Scholarly Communication services.
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Has been involved in the world of ICTs and development from 1995, when she worked in the Gauteng Provincial Government with oversight over IT matters in the GPG administration. In 1996, she led a GPG study tour to Malaysia and Singapore with participation from various GPG departments to explore the ways in which ICTs could be used to develop an “intelligent province”.
During her term of office she led a research study to design an Information and Communications Strategy for the National Assembly, NCOP and provincial legislatures under the EU Parliamentary Support Programme.
She was instrumental in the establishment of the precursor of the LINK Centre in September 1996, including early stage curriculum design and training delivery. She was also Chairperson of the National Information Technology Forum from 1996 to 1998.
She initiated a major e-government project at the Department of Social Development in October 1998, publishing a Request for Information for a service that could address the major obstacles to providing effective access and delivery of grant payments to citizens with the support of ICTs.
While pursuing a variety of interests over the past three years, she has done significant preparatory research in the field of ICTs and development and e-government for developing and presenting the LINK courses: Certificate in Information and Knowledge Management for the Public Sector and the Certificate in E-Government.
She serves as a member of the National Advisory Council on Innovation (NACI), the advisory body to the Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology on innovation matters. She recently participated in a South African delegation to Finland to study the Finnish National System of Innovation.
She was appointed to the Board of Directors of the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) in June 2002.
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Francis B. Nyamnjoh joined the University of Cape Town in August 2009 from the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), where he served as Head of Publications from July 2003 to July 2009.
He has taught sociology, anthropology and communication studies at universities in Cameroon and Botswana, and has researched and written extensively on Cameroon and Botswana, where he was awarded the “Senior Arts Researcher of the Year” prize for 2003.
His most recent books include Negotiating an Anglophone Identity (Brill, 2003), Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Africa (Zed Books, 2004), Africa’s Media, Democracy and the Politics of Belonging (Zed Books, 2005), Insiders and Outsiders: Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa (CODESRIA/ZED Books, 2006), Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa (Langaa/African Studies Centre Leiden, 2009).
Dr Nyamnjoh has published widely on globalisation, citizenship, media and the politics of identity in Africa. He has also published seven ethnographic novels, Mind Searching (1991), The Disillusioned African (1995), A Nose for Money (2006), Souls Forgotten (2008), The Travail of Dieudonné (2008), Married but Available (2009), and Intimate Strangers (2010), a play, The Convert (2003), and a collection of short stories, Stories from Abakwa (2007).
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Tags: academic textbook publishing, africa, african scholarly publishing, citizenshp, CODESRIA, globalisation, identity, media, open access, politics of identity, research, UCT
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Heather Joseph serves as the Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), a library-based organization that support open access to the results of scholarly and scientific research through enabling open access publishing and archiving channels, programs, and advocacy for local, national and international open access policies.
Ms. Joseph is also the convener of the Alliance for Taxpayer Access, a coalition of libraries, universities, patients advocacy groups, consumer groups, and student organizations who work to ensure that results of publicly funded research are openly accessible to the public. The group has been a leading voice on U.S. public access legislation, including landmark policy issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Ms. Joseph spent 15 years as a scientific journal publisher. While at the American Society for Cell Biology, she managed Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBC) the first journal to commit its full content to the NIH’s openly accessible PubMed Central repository, and was pleased to be appointed to serve on the National Advisory Committee for this initiative.
Ms. Joseph is a frequent speaker on scholarly communications issues, and serves on the Board of Directors of numerous not-for-profit organizations. She recently completely a term as the elected President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing.
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Brian Wafawarowa is the founder and managing director of New Africa Books, a general and educational publishing house in Cape Town, South Africa. He is also the chairman of the African Publishers’ Network (APNET), based in Accra.
APNET represents 46 African countries with an observer status on the African Union. He is the national chair of the transformation committee established by the ministry of Arts and Culture to develop a national book policy in South Africa. He also works closely with the International Publishers Association, where he has served on the Copyright Committee for a number of years.
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Eve Gray’s is in university press and academic textbook publishing. She also runs a publishing strategy consultancy, Eve Gray & Associates, based in Cape Town. Eve has a particular interest in the potential of electronic media and new copyright models to open up the volume and increase the impact of African scholarly publishing. She is affiliated as an Honorary Research Associate, to the Centre for Educational Technology at the University of Cape Town, a unit that enables, promotes and investigates the integration of technology in teaching and learning in higher education.
Watch a video of Eve’s presentation at the event ➤
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