Type one or more search terms into the search box and click on the search button.
The search engine does not distinguish between lowercase and uppercase letters.
A results page will be produced: a list of web pages related to your search terms, with the most relevant page appearing first, then the next, and so on.
Boolean operators
The operator AND is set as default between words. You can combine several words or phrases by using the logical operators ‘OR’ and ‘AND’.
You can also use plus or minus marks for including or excluding words (see below).
Ranking
The more of the words that are present in the page, the higher is the score.
If words appear in the same order as in your query, and close to each other, the score of the document gets high.
Phrase Search
Use quotation marks to compound phrases. If you wish to search for a phrase, you write text inside “…”quotation marks.
Eg. "African studies"
Truncation
Use * for truncation of search terms. A search term does not always have to be entered in its complete form. Search terms may be truncated from left or right.
Eg. Tanza* or even *anza*
Prioritizing Words
Plus marks a word as necessary. By preceding a word or a phrase with a plus sign, you tell the search engine that you are only looking for documents that contain that word/phrase.
Eg. +policy +activities
Word Exclusion
Minus marks a word as not wanted. By preceding a word or phrase with a minus sign, you tell the search engine to exclude that word/phrase and only to look for documents that match the rest of the query.
Eg. nordic -africa –institute
Contact: conteh-morgan.2@osu.edu
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The proliferation and widespread use of ICTs is transforming how people live, work, learn and play, creating new synergies and possibilities, and engendering new rules of sociocultural, political, civic and academic engagement unimaginable even a decade ago. By shrinking the time/space and technology divides, ICTs also facilitate transborder flows of information and knowledge. However, except for the much described mobile revolution, Africa is still perceived as peripheral to these trends that characterise the global information society. Obviously, Africa does participate in it, but it is not always evident that the world is listening to the conversations or to what extent Africa itself is actively engaging the rest of the world in dialogue. By trying to map the global impact of content and perspectives from Africa, this panel seeks to situate Africa within the global information society, not by rehashing the dominant discourses of deficits and divides, but by unpacking these narratives to discover the modes and practices through which African information, knowledge and perspectives enter the global space and interface with global communities. Proposals not limited to the following topics are sought:
-- Transnational scholarly networks and partnerships: formal and informal between individuals and institutions;
-- African scholarly communication initiatives;
-- The South-North and/or Diaspora-Homeland information and knowledge flows;
-- Social media and Africa: looking at and beyond YouTube, Twitter and Facebook in search of African services, communities of practice, and technologies (blogs and other content sharing tools like Mokocharlie or Zoopys; tools like the geotagging Ushahidi);
-- Creating local content for a global audience.
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Accepted Abstracts
Use of Online Collaboration Tools amongst Academics in Zambia: A Case Study of the University of Zambia
Providing Content, Access, and Service to an African Audience: The Library of Congress
Scanning The Landscape and Mapping New Knowledge Flows
Technology as an Unmediated Cultural Broker: Reflections on the Production and Performance of the Humanities and the Arts in the Lusophone African Diaspora
The African Science Indexation Projects and the Characteristics of African Scholarship and Scholarly Communication
