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Sunday, October 14, 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS: Conference on knowledge for poverty reduction in Tanzania: towards access to information resources

The “Open Knowledge for Poverty Reduction in Tanzania” conference will promote opportunities for learning, information sharing and policy analysis for researchers and civil society working to reduce poverty. Below is a description of the event.

Where: Bagamoyo, Tanzania December 12 -14 2012

Format: papers and poster must respond to following themes:

 -Knowledge for poverty reduction
-Gender and knowledge access
-Marginalization and knowledge access
-ICT and knowledge access
-Communication and media and knowledge access
-Knowledge access for influencing policy

Posters should present the following:
- case studies of information access for poverty reduction
- case studies of innovative mechanisms for information diffusion to socially marginalized groups

CALL and DEADLINES 2012
-Deadline for submission of abstracts: October 30, 2012.
-Acceptance notifications will be sent by: November 5th, 2012.
-Deadline for submission of full paper and poster content: 30th November, 2012

We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts at your earliest opportunity.

Organizers: Dr. Benedict Mongula, Institute of Development Studies, University of Dar es Salaam; Dr. Alice Nkhoma-Wamumza, Dr. W. Chagula Library, University of Dar es Salaam

Email: knowledgeconference@yahoo.com

Monday, October 8, 2012

Free electronic books for download

Students, teachers, tutors, lecturers, researchers and many others are able to download the full electronic books free. Click here to access the database

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

MUHAS Institutional Repository

The institutional repository of the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Health Sciences (MUHAS) in Tanzania is mapped at the Directory of Academic Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) service that provides a quality-assured listing of open access repositories around the world Only two institutions from Tanzania are mapped in the OpenDIAr including MUHAS and Ifakara Health Institute. Let us congratulate these two institutions for increasing visibility of research outputs produced in the country.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Call for Papers for IST-Africa 2013

Hosted by the Government of Kenya through the Ministry of Higher Education Science and Technology, and Supported by the European Commission and African Union Commission, IST-Africa 2013 will take place in Nairobi, Kenya from 15 - 17 May 2013.

IST-Africa 2013 is focused on applied ICT and the core thematic areas include:
- Cloud Computing - Applications and Case Studies
- Cyber Security
- Digital Libraries and Cultural Heritage
- eGovernment - Services to Citizens & Business
- eHealth, mHealth & Health Information Systems
- eInfrastructures and NRENs
- ICT for eInclusion and eAccessibility
- ICT for Environmental Sustainability
- ICT Regulatory Frameworks
- IPv6
- Living Labs (Adaptation for Developing Countries)
- Mobile Applications (including mServices, mEducation, Social Networking)
- Open Source Software - Applications
- RFID and Networked Enterprise
- Technology Enhanced Learning and ICT Skills
- Transformation of Research Results into Local Innovation

Interested presenters are encouraged to prepare an 8 page paper (4,000 - 5,000 words) using the IST-Africa 2013 paper guidelines and paper template provided on the IST-Africa Conference Portal, for submission online by 07 December.

http://www.ist-africa.org/conference2013/files/ISTAfrica2013_CallForPapers.pdf

The First International Conference on Pesticidal Plants

The conference will be held at the International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology, ICIPE, Nairobi from 21st - 24th January 2013. 

The theme of the conference is: Harnessing Pe
sticidal Plant Technologies for Improved Livelihoods

Subthemes:
1) Bio-prospecting: Product development, Bio-safety, Standardization and Commercialization
2) Environmental conservation and climate change: synthetic biology and biotechnology
3) Access and benefit sharing: Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation, Advocacy and Policy
4) Culture and indigenous knowledge

Subject areas
1) Stored product protection
2) Field crop pests
3) Livestock and human disease vectors
4) Plant disease control
5) Weed management
6) Bio-fertilizers and biopesticide technologies
7) Propagation and conservation
8) other pesticidal plant research

Important Deadlines
Abstract submission: 30th September, 2012
Early registration: 31st October, 2012
Exhibitors’ registration: 30st November, 2012
Full Papers submission: 30st November, 2012
Late registration:  31st December, 2012

Sponsorship: There will be opportunities to apply for travel grants for delegates and students

For more information, click here

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

New technical reports from the Institute of Traditional Medicine at MUHAS have been added into the MUHAS institutional repository


These are the new titles of technical reports that have been added into the MUHAS institutional repository:
  • Promotion of community based commercial cultivation of herbal medicines and packaging of herbal nutritional supplements
  •  Promotion of community based cultivation of Hibiscus sabdariffa, Moringa oleifera, Adansonia digitata and Aloe vera for use as herbal nutritional supplements for people living with HIV/AIDS 
Click here to access these technical reports in full text





Call for Applications for doctoral candidates to participate in the 1st SA-YSSP, scheduled for 1 December 2012 to 28 February 2013.

The National Research Foundation (NRF) as the National Member Organisation (NMO), in collaboration with the Department of Science and Technology (DST), has developed a novel and innovative initiative with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) to establish the Southern African Young Scientists Summer Program (SA-YSSP).
 
As an SA-YSSP participant, you will be associated with an SA-YSSP research project. Therefore, you are invited to indicate your preference for one to three projects that you are interested in working on before, during, and after the SA-YSSP core period of three months.