{"id":518,"date":"2015-02-05T19:43:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T18:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/?p=518"},"modified":"2015-02-05T19:43:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T18:43:41","slug":"ict-program-for-african-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/2015\/02\/05\/ict-program-for-african-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"ICT program for African universities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Enhancing librarians\u2019 ICT skills for research enablement in African universities: a Carnegie-funded CPD programme<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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Applications for the fourth intake of the Carnegie-funded Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme, which is aimed at enhancing ICT skills for research enablement in African universities opened on 1 February 2015<\/b> and closes on 13 March 2015<\/b>.\u00a0The The programme will begin on 23 May<\/b> 2015<\/b> and ends on 20 June 2015.<\/b> Academic librarians and LIS faculty in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda are eligible to apply for admission to this programme. Eight four-week training sessions will take place over a period of three years. 32 participants will be selected for each intake.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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This four-week residential training programme with both practical (70%) and theoretical (30%) components will cover the following <\/span><\/p>\n

topics:<\/span><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Setting the context: Libraries, ICTs and research\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Leadership and innovation <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Information literacy<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Social media for research discoverability in an academic environment <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Mobile technology and mobility <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Managing and organising information <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Personal Information Management <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

8.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Open Scholarship and Open Science \u2013 Publishing <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

9.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Open Scholarship and Open Science \u2013 Institutional Repositories <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

10. <\/span>Open Scholarship and Open Science \u2013 Understanding and using research data management<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

11. <\/span>Digitisation<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

12. <\/span>Evaluating website architecture<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

13. <\/span>Cloud services and storage<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

14. <\/span>Virtual research environments<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

15. <\/span>The next generation librarian <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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This is a fully funded programme which will take place in Pretoria, South Africa. The funding covers books and other academic expenditures, flights, accommodation, and a daily stipend while in Pretoria. All participants are expected to reside in the accommodation provided in Pretoria for the duration of the programme.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Grant exclusions:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Visa applications, personal expenses (for example medicine, laundry, phone calls, etc.) <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ICT equipment such as laptops, modems, internet access top-ups etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Travel to and from the airport in your home country<\/span><\/p>\n

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Application for the third intake closes on 13 March 2015. <\/b>No late applications will be considered. (There will be a fifth intake in November 2015, as well as three further intakes in 2016.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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For additional information on the programme content, eligibility and selection criteria, application procedures, important dates, etc., please see <\/span>http:\/\/www.up.ac.za\/en\/information-science\/article\/21563\/carnegie-cpd-programme<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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All correspondence or enquiries: Joan de la Haye at <\/span>Carnegie-cpd@up.ac.za<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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