3rd International Conference on African Digital_programme

7/30/2019 3rd International Conference on African Digital_programme

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3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AFRICAN DIGITAL

LIBRARIES & ARCHIVES (ICADLA-3)

DIGITAL LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES IN AFRICA: CHANGING

LIVES AND BUILDING COMMUNITIES, 30 -31 May 2013.

VENUE: AL AKHAWAYN UNIVERSITY, IFRANE, MOROCCOPRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

*Subject to change*

THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013Time Activity08:00 - 09:00 Registration

WELCOME AND OPENING 9:00 10:30

VENUE BoardroomFACILITATOR Abdelhamid Lotfi, Mohammed VI Library Director, Al Akhawayn University

Time Activity09:00 - 09:15 Welcome Address

Driss OUAOUICHA, President, Al Akhawayn University

09:15 - 09:45 Opening AddressMinistry of Higher Education, Morocco

09:45 - 10:30 Keynote AddressMisako Ito (UNESCO Office for Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia)

10:30 11:00 Refreshment Break/Networking/opening of Exhibitions

PANEL DISCUSSION CREATING A GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY 11:00 12:45

VENUE BoardroomFACILITATOR Martin Kalfatovic, Associate Director, Smithsonian Libraries/Program Director, Biodiversity

Heritage Library

Topics for discussion include strategies for creating and maintaining a multinational digital library programme;

digitisation platforms and services; creating value-added features for discipline-specific digital libraries; use of social

media and outreach to increase use and build new audiences; and migration of projects to sustainable programmes.

This session includes participation from BHL global partners from Africa, the USA and Australia.

Panelists: Ely Wallis (Museum Victoria/BHL Australia), Anne-Lise Fourie (South African National Biodiversity

Institute/BHL Africa), Nancy Gwinn (Smithsonian Libraries/BHL), William Ulate (Missouri Botanical Garden/BHL), and

Noha Adly (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Deputy Head, ICT Sector).


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12:45 - 14:00 LUNCH VIP University Restaurant

CONCURRENT SESSION 1 POLICY AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT 14:00 17:00

VENUE Building 4: Room 001FACILITATOR: Ms Lindi Nhlapo, IFLA Africa Section, Regional Manager, Regional Office for Africa

Time Activity14:00 14:30 Diso, Lukman,JSTOR Digitization Project in Nigerian University Libraries: Policy Issues In

Building and Sustaining Digital Collections

14:30 15:00 Bakhoum, Nafissatou, Challenges of building digital repositories in Africa: a case study of

best practice

15:00 15:30 Refreshment Break/Networking

15:30 15:50 Adeleke, Akinniyi A, Digitization capacity and skills of academic librarians in Nigeria

15:50 16:10 Kigongo-Bukenya, Isaac Professor, Digitisation capacity and skills: the case for optimum

curriculum to educate and train digital and archives managers in a developing country with

special reference to Uganda

16:10 16:30 Rossi, Pier Luigi, Creating Digital Workshops in African countries

16:30 17:00 Discussion

CONCURRENT SESSION 2 NATIONAL AND COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS 14:00 17:00

VENUE Building 4, Room 003

FACILITATOR Jamal BAIDA, Director, National Archives of Morocco, Rabat, Morocco

Time Activity14:00 14:20 Aakki, Hassan, Rle de la numrisation dans la conservation des fonds patrimoniaux et la

dmocratisation de linformation : Cas de la Bibliothque Numrique Marocaine

14:20 14:40 Bwamkuu, Africa J. and Wordofa, Teklemichael T., Collaborative Approaches to Building

Digital Repositories in Africa: A case study of Ethiopia; building national digital repository of

theses and dissertations produced by the Ethiopian Higher learning institutions

14:40 15:00 Ennahid, Said, Towards a Digital Library for Manuscript Collections in Morocco


15:30 15:50 Ahmed Samir, Bassem Elsayed, Noha Adly, and Magdy Nagi, Digitizing Egyptian NationalDocuments Archive: Challenges and Solutions

15:50 16:10 Owano, Ashah, Building an Online Indigenous Knowledge Library on Culture, Environment

and History: Case Study of Elimu Asilia

16:10 16:30 Verleyen, Julie. The work of theAfrican Digital Libraries Support Network (ADLSN).


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CONCURRENT SESSION 3 INSTUTIONAL EXPERIENCES 14:00 17:00

VENUE Building 4, Room 004

FACILITATOR Alexio Motsi, Head of Preservation, National Archives and Records Service, SouthAfrica

Time Activity14:00 14:30 Sitaki, Eustache, Les pays en dveloppement et larchivage lectronique. Le thme traitera l'

avance de larchivage lectronique dans les pays en dveloppement notamment au

Burundi en particulier et dans la rgion des grands lacs. Burundi, Rwanda et en Rpublique

Dmocratique du Congo en gnral

14:30 15:00 Somers, Nellie,An investigation into the digital scanning of photographs in archival

collections


15:30 16:00 Majawa, Felix P. Digital Library Implementation and usage: A case study of Bunda CollegeGreenstone Digital Library in Malawi

16:00 16:30 Diouf, Antonin, Gestion dune bibliothque numrique institutionnelle avec le logiciel

Invenio : exemple du serveur de documents de lIDEP


18:00 - 20:00 Gala Dinner & Entertainment: Faculty Club_______________________________________________________________________

FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013Time Activity08.00 - 08:30 REGISTRATION

PLENARY 08:30 09:30

VENUE BoardroomFACILITATOR Felix Ubogu , University Librarian, Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa

Time Keynote Addresses08:30 09:00 Driss Khrouz, Director, National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco

09:00 09:30 William Kanaan, Head of New Business Development for MENA and Turkey, Google


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PLENARY A ROADMAP FOR DIGITSATION PROJECTS IN AFRICA 09:30 10:15

VENUE BoardroomFACILITATORS Abraham Azubuike and Felix Ubogu (ICADLA Standing Committee representatives)

Time Activity09:30 10:00 ICADLA Steering Committee Vision, Recommendations for the Way Forward forDigitisation Project in Africa and the Need for the Roadmap

10:00 10:15 Division of conference participants into Breakaway Groups


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BREAK-AWAY SESSIONS A ROADMAP FOR DIGITSATION PROJECTS IN AFRICA 10:45 13:30

VENUESen Building 4, Rooms: 001, 002 &003

Time Activity10:45 12:30 Break-away Sessions

12:30 13:30 Break-away groups report back to plenary with action proposals for Roadmap and

Discussion.

13:30 - 14:30 LUNCH AND NETWORKING (University VIP Restaurant)

FINAL PLENARY 14:30 15:30

VENUE BoardroomFACILITATORS Abraham Azubuike and Felix Ubogu (ICADLA Standing Committee representatives)Time Activity14:30 15:30 Presentation of Conference Outcome, Recommendations, Way Forward and Closure

TOUR OF FS

16:00 - Guided Tour of Fs (The Medina - Old City), includes transportation (75 minute bus trip) and

dinner (drinks not included in price) at the Palais De Fs Dar Tazi Restaurant

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ICADLA Standing Committee

ICADLA3 Advisory Committee

ICADLA3 AUI Organizing Committee

ICADLA3 Sponsors

ICADLA3 Wits Organizing Committee

Adly, Noha Dr. Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt

Aina, Lenrie Professor University of Ilorin, Nigeria

Azubuike, Abraham Dag Hammarskjold Library, United Nations

Bakhoum, Nafissatou Institut Fondamental dAfrique Noire, Sngal

Benbouida, Mohamed Dr . Ministry of Scientific Research, Morocco

Hillebrecht, Werner National Archives of NamibiaKalule, Ezra National Library of Uganda

Lotfi, Abdelhamid Professor Al Akhawayn University, Morocco

Morgos, Rafaa Dr. Ministry of Science and Technology, Sudan

Motsi, Alexio National Archives of South Africa

Nhlapo, Lindy IFLA Regional Manager for Africa

Okojie, Victoria IFLA Africa Section Chair

Pickover, Michele University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Salanje, Geoffrey Bunda College of Agriculture, University of Malawi

Selematsela, Daisy Dr. National Research Foundation, South Africa

Ubogu, Felix (Chair) University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Wordofa, Teklemichael Addis Ababa University Library, Ethiopia

Eric Howard Northeastern University - Boston

Dr Jill Cousins Europeana Foundation

Kristine Hanna Internet Archive

Martin Kalfatovic Smithsonian, USASimon Tanner Kings College London, UK

Vigdis Moe Skarstein National Librarian, Norway

Felix Ubogu (Chair), Abraham Azubuike, Gabriele Mohale, Tshidi Mwandla, Michele Pickover, Charles Roberts

Dr. Lotfi Abdelhamid ( Chair), Hanane Karkour (Coordinator), Mustapha Azaou , Rajaa Belaydi , Amal Al Omari,

Khadija Elbaaj, Sanaa Elfata, Aziz El Hassani , Fatima Hadre, Abdelouhab Taoufiq, Rachid Zegrane.