Africa PID Alliance@AfricaPid

Community of PIDs enthusiasts in and from Africa aiming to lead and realize a FAIR sharing of access to data using Persistent Identifiers . A @TCCafrica project

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Joined April 2023
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📣@africaPID in Scholarly Kitchen's article on PIDfest 2024! The article highlights our efforts in developing PIDs, crucial for uniquely identifying research related to indigenous knowledge, cultural heritage & patents. Check out the article to learn more:scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/…

A Successful Start to a New Festival of Identifiers: PIDfest 2024 - The Scholarly Kitchen

In this post by Todd Carpenter, Phill Jones, and Alice Meadows, you can read all about PIDfest, which brought together nearly 400 persistent identifier users and providers from around the world (in...

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This is why we must have community ownership of the sustainability of open infrastructure. @AfricaPID would not have survived without the co-ownership and support from @UbuntuNet , @AfLIACon , @kenet_ke and PID providers, to mention afew
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Open research infrastructure may be free to use, but it is not free to sustain. Rosalie Lack of @scossfunding highlighted the importance of long-term funding and strategic partnerships to support essential open science infrastructure, including African Journals OnLine (AJOL), #DSpace and Open Journal Systems (OJS). Sustaining these platforms helps make African research more visible, accessible and available for future generations. #OpenScience #DiamondOpenAccess #AfricanResearch
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Research impact goes beyond publications and citations. It also includes the knowledge, tools and solutions that reach communities and influence decisions, and according to Maurice Mutinda of @AfricaPid, we need to learn how repositories, persistent identifiers and indexing services can connect different research outputs, making their contributions easier to trace and assess. Making research visible, particularly indigenous knowledge, must go hand in hand with protecting community rights, consent and ownership. #DiamondOpenAccess #ResearchAssessment #AfricanScholarship
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📚 Day 3 of the Virtual Diamond Open Access Conference explores how African institutions can better recognise research, strengthen community-owned infrastructure and advance Diamond OA. Featuring experts from @realACDE, #AfriQAN, @AfricaPid, @UCT_news and @scossfunding. Also on today’s agenda: the African DOA Framework, Open Education MOOCs and AfRID. 🗓️ 4 Nov | 12:00 UTC | Zoom #DiamondOpenAccess #OpenScience
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🚨 LIVE NOW! Join Maurice Mutinda of Africa PID Alliance to explore how community-owned infrastructure can reshape research evaluation in Africa. 🔗 workshops.aau.org/Virtual-Di… #DiamondOpenAccess #OpenScience #DOCiD
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How can community-owned infrastructure drive alternative research evaluation across Africa? 🌍 Catch Maurice Mutinda (@africapid) on the #DiamondOpenAccess Virtual Conference panel! 📅 Nov 2–5, 2026 ⏰ 12:00 UTC Register: workshops.aau.org/Virtual-Di… #PiDs #ResearchImpact
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🚀 #DigiTOACs launches in Burkina Faso 🇧🇫🇰🇪🇳🇬 Digital transformation isn’t just about technology. It’s about the people and professions that shape how it’s used. Read more: africapidalliance.org/africa… #AfricaPIDAlliance
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Honored to have Amy P. A. Asimah (PhD) from the Regional Maritime University, Ghana talk about Africa PID Alliance's activities and DOCiD in the ongoing PIDfest, on the state of Open Infrastructure and PID adoption in Africa.
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Frequently Asked Questions Everything you need to know about DOCiD™ and the Africa PID Alliance- docid.africapidalliance.org/…
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📍 Live from Lilongwe at #UbuntuNetConnect2026! @africapid & DOCiD™ are on the ground. Today Harrison Weda presents on connecting Africa’s fragmented repositories into trusted research infrastructure. Find us at the DOCiD™ banner! FAQs - docid.africapidalliance.org/…
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𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐎𝐂𝐢𝐃 How does literature challenge colonial ideas of the divine? 🧵 "The Myth of a Black God In Chukuezi's Poetry" explores how A.B. Chukuezi's verse reclaims indigenous Igbo cosmology and reframes the concept of a Black God.
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📖 Read the full study here: docid.africapidalliance.org/… Frequently Asked Questions Everything you need to know about DOCiD™ and the Africa PID Alliance- docid.africapidalliance.org/…

The Myth of a Black God In Chukuezi's Poetry

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Showcasing DOCiD™ Food security is about social dynamics, not just numbers 🌾 Mary Omosa examines food supply gaps in rural Kenya & why policy must center community realities. 📖DOCiD™: docid.africapidalliance.org/… Repository: erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/item…
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At #PIDfest in Leiden, Africa PID Alliance presented DOCiD™: African-led infrastructure connecting research and valuing Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Heritage through FAIR & CARE principles. FAQs about @AfricapID and DOCiD docid.africapidalliance.org/…
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🚀 Africa PID Alliance (APA) & DOCiD docid.africapidalliance.org/… are heading to #UbuntuNetConnect2026! Join us in Malawi (Oct 29–30) under "Shaping Digital Horizons." Let’s discuss persistent identifiers, research visibility & open science infrastructure for Africa. Come connect! 🤝
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We're heading to PIDfest 2026 in Leiden! 🇳🇱 Join APA & DOCiD™ 27–29 Oct as we champion open science infrastructure for Africa under this year's theme, "Keeping Knowledge Connected." Attending #PIDfest26? Let's connect! 👋 📅 27–29 October 2026 AfricaPIDAlliance #DOCiD
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CELEBRATING #OPENACCESSWEEK 🌍✨ Open Access needs open infrastructure to thrive. 🔗📊 Africa PID Alliance and DOCiD build digital highways for African scholarship: 🔹 Discoverable: Boost global visibility 🔹 Equitable: Ensure author credit 🔹 Interoperable: Link data, grants
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& papers 🔹 FAIR: Sustain reusable research 🔗 africapidalliance.org/ #OAWeek #AfricaPIDAlliance #DOCiD #PIDs #OpenAccess
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We are currently hosting a live DOCiD Integration Session with Acting Library Director Adele and the team from the University of St Joseph Ki-Zerbo (Burkina Faso)! Co-project lead Nabil Ksibi is leading the French-language demonstration, walking participants through:
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🔹 Institutional account setup & collection mapping. 🔹 Real-time persistent identifier integration (ORCID, ROR, DOIs, APA Handles, CSTR). 🔹 Data preservation & registering indigenous knowledge and cultural heritage using Local Contexts / Biocultural labels.
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Empowering African institutions with open persistent identifier infrastructure in real time! #Live #OpenScience #DOCiD #AfricanResearch #PersistentIdentifiers #TCCAfrica #HigherEducation
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