Post Program Support for Mentorship: Insights from Open Life Science

This talk was given by Malvika Sharan on 15 April 2021. It was organised by ESCALATOR, a project of the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR). Representatives from eight existing mentorship programmes presented their initiatives with a specific focus on five core topics: - Programme content/mentee projects - Pairing mentors/mentees - Mentor recruitment/reward/support - Measuring impact - Post programme support

Participating programmes included: - Open Life Science - Zindi Mentorship Programme - CORE Africa Research Mentorship Scheme (CARMS) - She Code Africa Community Mentorship Project - WanaData - Deep Learning Indaba Mentorship Programme - Open Education for a Better World Online Mentoring Programme More information is available at escalator.sadilar.org.

All videos from this event are on YouTube: youtube.com