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KERG
COLLABORATIVE KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
IS THE FUTURE OF EQUITABLE PUBLISHING
Kamela Heyward-Rotimi. Ph.D.
Knowledge Exchange Research
Group (KERG)
Duke University
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ABOUT US
Knowledge Exchange Research Group (KERG).
An international research group that explores solutions to the growing crisis ofAfrican-descended communities, and racialized groups inequitable access to digital informationand knowledge production.
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KERG brings together international scholars, publishers, library specialists, policy experts, and data analysts to research and implement approaches to improve elibrary access, publishing, and digital archives for scholars at West African universities, and universities within the African Diaspora.
ABOUT OUR PILOT PROJECTWest African Elibrary Collaborative (WAELC) .
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KERG COLLABORATIONS
Western researchers and institutions collaborate with scholars and administration from the WAELC pilot site Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile Ife, Nigeria, to design a digital repository to make Nigerian scholarship more accessible to global scholars.
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ALL CONNECTIVITY IS NOT CREATED EQUAL, IN THE INTERNET AGE, WHICH
TECHNOLOGIES AND DEVICES YOU USE TO CONNECT INCREASINGLY DETERMINE YOUR ONLINE
OPPORTUNITIES — MEINRATH.
It is my conviction that my experience and aspirations
are those of my colleagues in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our
reliance on these technologies [eLearning, eLibraries] or
creative ways of disseminating the knowledge
we create become fundamentally important.
Paul Nkwi
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AFRICAN SCHOLARS CRITIQUE WESTERN
KNOWLEDGE PRACTICES
Current practice focuses on knowledge transfer from the developed world to the developing world, without…[promoting] transfer of information produced in Africa to the developed world.
Williams E. Nwagwu
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African Scholar’s Burden
Time expended to inform Western scholars about how knowledge is shared and transferred among scholars in Africa.
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COLONIAL MODELS AND THE DIGITAL DIVIDE SHAPE CURRENT KNOWLEDGE
PRODUCTION
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VESTIGES OF COLONIAL INFLUENCE
Models of information transfer that privilege established colonial canons while critical African models of knowledge are peripheralized.
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THE FUTURE
Equitable, new forms of scholarly publishing requires a move away from colonial models of research and publishing/dissemination that privilege extractive practices of knowledge.
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THANK YOU