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Who counts? Ghanaian academic publishing and global science

David Mills, Patricia Kingori, Abigail Branford et al.

Cape Town: African Minds (2023), 227 pp.

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Digital Technology in Capacity Development: Enabling Learning and Supporting Change

Joanna Wild, Femi Nzegwu (eds.)

Cape Town; Oxford: African Minds; International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2022), viii, 171 pp.

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Reframing Africa? Reflections on Modernity and the Moving Image

Cynthia Kros, Reece Auguiste, Pervaiz Khan (eds.)

Cape Town; Bethlehem, PA: African Minds; Media Studies Press (2022), ix, 246 pp.

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Open Learning as a Means of Advancing Social Justice: Cases in Post-School Education and Training in South Africa

Tabisa Mayisela, Shanali C. Govender, Cheryl Ann Hodgkinson-Williams (eds.)

Cape Town: African Minds (2022), xi, 396 pp.

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Situating Open Data: Global Trends in Local Contexts

Danny Lämmerhirt, Ana Brandusescu, Natalia Domagala, Patrick Enaholo (eds.)

Cape Town: African Minds (2020), xiii, 243 pp.

"This book provides empirical accounts to understand the situatedness of open data along the following themes: 1) open data practices; 2) the local implementation of global trends; and 3) open data ecosystems. Many chapters in this volume simultaneously address several of these themes. The thematic ... more

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The State of Open Data: Histories and Horizons
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Tim Davies, Stephen B. Walker, Mor Rubinstein, Fernando Perini

Capetown; Ottawa: African Minds; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2019), xiii, 574 pp.

"A decade ago, open data was more or less just an idea, emerging as a rough point of consensus for action among pro-democracy practitioners, internet entrepreneurs, open source advocates, civic technology developers, and open knowledge campaigners. Calls for “open data now” offered a powerful cr ... itique of the way in which governments and other institutions were hoarding valuable data paid for by taxpayers – data that if made accessible, could be reused in a myriad of different ways to bring social and economic benefits and democratic change. Ten years on, open data is much more than just an idea. First, it was a movement, and then a label applied to vast quantities of data from genomics and geospatial data to land registers, contracting, and parliamentary voting. Today, it’s a term found on government portals, in global policy documents, and in job descriptions. Thousands of businesses around the world owe their existence or their growth to the release of open government data, and hundreds of civil society organisations have embraced open data as a key element of their social change toolkit. For a while, it may have been possible to identify a cohesive open data movement united by shared interests, working simply to gain access to more data and establishing the principle that government data should be open. However, as the movement has evolved, stakeholders have turned their focus to linking data use to specific needs and to questions of how to quantify the return on investment in advancing open data. Within this fast growing and organic open data movement, an ever-increasing number of networks and communities of practice have become more diverse, fluid, and cross-sectoral. So what is the open data movement today? What has it achieved over the last decade? Answering these questions is at the core of this publication. It is a collective effort to explore what we can learn from the past, to identify how to build on the investments made to date, and to look at how open data policy and practice have started to address challenges such as mainstreaming and sectorisation. Exploring these questions is not just important for historical purposes. It can yield important insights on how best to move forward. This publication is also an invitation to identify the issues that may sustain this broad coalition into the future." (Introduction) more

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Science Communication in South Africa: Reflections on Current Issues

Peter Weingart, Marina Joubert, Bankole Falade (eds.)

Cape Town: African Minds (2019), 236 pp.

"Once the persuasion took hold that science should open up to the public and these questions were raised, it became clear that coming up with satisfactory answers would be a complex challenge. The inaccessibility of scientific language and methods, due to ever increasing specialisation, is at the ba ... more

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Adoption and Impact of OER in the Global South

Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, Patricia B. Arinto (eds.)

Cape Town; Ottawa: African Minds; Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D); International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2017), xiii, 592 pp.

"Education in the Global South faces several key interrelated challenges, for which Open Educational Resources (OER) are seen to be part of the solution. These challenges include: unequal access to education; variable quality of educational resources, teaching, and student performance; and increasin ... more

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The African University Press

François van Schalkwyk, Thierry M. Luescher

Cape Town: African Minds (2017), 62 pp.

"A holistic way of approaching the question of how African university presses can reposition themselves in support of the broader shift of some African universities towards a greater focus on research, is to consider shifts in the dominant institutional logic in the academic publishing industry. Bas ... more

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Open Data in Developing Economies: Toward Building an Evidence Base on What Works and How

Stefaan G. Verhulst, Andrew Young

Cape Twon: African Minds (2017), v, 275 pp.

"Recent years have witnessed considerable speculation about the potential of open data to bring about wide-scale transformation. The bulk of existing evidence about the impact of open data, however, focuses on high-income countries. Much less is known about open data’s role and value in low- and m ... more

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The Future of Scholarly Publishing: Open Access and the Economics of Digitisation

Peter Weingart, Niels Taubert (eds.)

Cape Twon: African Minds (2017), ix, 277 pp.

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The State of Open Data: Histories and Horizons
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