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A diverse group of researchers, experts and DRE curators came together in Nairobi, Kenya, in the second week of April for a three-day workshop to jointly draft the DRE proposal for the next Cluster phase.

Text: Dr. Anke Schürer-Ries

The workshop included an introductory presentation of Africa PID Alliance by Joy Owango. The alliance constitutes a collaboration of numerous national institutions in Kenya with the goal to create a reliable research infrastructure for digitized data in Africa via a DOCID (Digital Object Container Identifier).

Joy Owango explained that the Africa PID Alliance innovative projects provide reliable open research infrastructure services giving access to knowledge and metadata about digital objects closer to the wider communities, including indigenous knowledge and patent metadata, starting from Africa. Africa PID Alliance is part of the Open Infrastructure Program of the Training Centre in Communication (TCC-AFRICA). Owango's expertise was much appreciated and greatly complemented the DRE's goal to write a proposal that incorporated future endeavors that were initiated on the continent.