BioinfoNet/Open-Science-Communities-Africa

A list of open science communities in Africa ## Open Science Communities in Africa This repository contains a list of Open Science communities in Africa. Organization| Goals | Lead| Location| Contact| Website| Social Media ---|---|---|---|---|---|--- OpenScienceKE | Sensitizing and promoting open, reproducible and collaborative Bioinformatics research among researchers, graduate students and highly motivated undergraduate students in local universities within Nairobi | Dr. Caleb Kibet | Nairobi, Kenya | Email: kenyabioinformaticsnetwork@gmail.com Twitter: @OpenKe | bioinfonet.github.io | Twitter: @OpenKe African Open Science Platform (AOSP)| To convene and coordinate the interests, ideas, people, institutions and resources needed to advocate and to advance Open Science in and for Africa. | The project is managed by the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf). Project team: Susan Veldsman (Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)) Ina Smith (Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)) Simon Hodson (CODATA) | South Africa | Contact Ina Smith (Project Manager): ina@assaf.org.za | africanopenscience.org.za | Facebook: AfricanOpenSciencePlatform Twitter: @aosp_africa Africa Open Science and Hardware (Africa OSH) | To create a conversation and set of actions on OSH, among African actors, and between them and the international community, in order to adopt OSH principles and practices appropriate to our context. | (_pending entry_) | Kumasi, Ghana | Email: organisers@africaosh.com Phone: (+233) 24 956 9580 | africaosh.com | Facebook: AfricaOSH Twitter: @AfricaOSH Instagram: africaosh SOHA project | Promotion of Open Science as a collective tool of empowerment and cognitive justice in Haiti and French-speaking Africa |SOHA project team. Principal co-researchers: Diéyi Diouf (Senegal) Florence Piron (Quebec) | | Email: equipe@projetsoha.org | projetsoha.org | Twitter: @ScienceBienComm Facebook: Open Science …