INASP-funded workshop builds skills for Batwa graduate students
Guest post by Richard Ntakirutimana, Executive Director of the African Initiative for Mankind and Progress Organization (AIMPO).
Why are we struggling to get an editor for our journal?
Dr Haseeb Md. Irfanullah considers the journal publishing landscape in Bangladesh and why it is so difficult to attract editors to southern journals. He also shares his suggestions for how the situation might be improved.
Stand out from the crowd with an ORCID iD
Alice Meadows of ORCID explains how researchers can get unique identifiers and why they are important in helping research contributions to be attributed and discovered.
21 years of climate discussions
What sort of deal will the Paris meeting agree to? Will it be legally binding? Ultimately, these questions place great hopes in the Paris talks but it remains to be seen if these hopes will come to pass... Guest blog post by Winnie Khaemba of the African Center for the Technology Studies, which presented at COP21 about work funded by a VakaYiko grant to bring together researchers and policymakers to discuss the development of Kenya's climate-change bill.
Knowledge cafe in Zimbabwe discusses evidence-informed policy making with stakeholders
The task now is to harmonize these and establish a working national evidence infrastructure to support evidence informed policymaking in Zimbabwe.
Re-skilling librarians in an age of rapid technological development
Agnes Kanzira Namaganda is an Academic Librarian, Information Literacy Instructor, and Head of Book Bank/Acquisitions Section at Makerere University Library,...