1. Under construction: Connecting-Africa Community portal for experts on Development and African Studies June 2006 Ursula Oberst African Studies Centre Leiden, NL

5. Connecting Africa Harvester IR IMPLEMENTATION MODEL CONNECTING-AFRICA Analyzer (Filter) Account facility Moderator Experts Publications Experts/Org. Publications OAI-PMH Protocol

6. Core community 180 community members (total number of Africanists in the Netherlands: 350) 110 Dutch university units and research schools Content metadata records ( approx. 3100) with links to full-text publications (approx. 1900) digitised publications of the ASC (approx.200) 44 Repositories harvested and filtered Connecting-Africa is updated twice a month.

7. Funding: SURF Foundation 1 st Tender 2003:€ 46.800 2 nd Tender 2004: € 140.000 Partners: African Studies Centre Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences University of Amsterdam University of Groningen University of Leiden University of Wageningen

8. Approach: By developing jointly a service to the benefit of all participants Based on existing building blocs Database of Africanists in the Netherlands Embedded in national infrastructures DAREDARE (Digital Academic Repositories) NODNOD (Dutch Research Database)

9. FUTURE of CONNECTING-AFRICA Content harvest more OAI repositories containing African Studies material (OAI = Open Archives Initiative) encourage colleagues in Europe to deposit material in OAI compliant repositories encourage African colleague research institutions to set up OAI compliant repositories (harvest content from Africa)

10. FUTURE of CONNECTING-AFRICA Community enlarge the community with specialists on Africa from NGO’s, the media, governments, etc. enlarge the community with academia in Africa and Europe

11. PROJECT GLOBAL CONNECTIONS Funding: DPRN (Development Policy Review Network) Project period: july 2006 – december 2007 Partners: African Studies Centre Development Policy Review Network Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences Royal Tropical Institute

12. PROJECT GLOBAL CONNECTIONS Activities: set up Global-Connections: web portal for development expertise in the Netherlands and Belgium.Global-Connections duplicate the Connecting-Africa model for other area studies

13. GLOBAL-CONNECTIONS http://www.global-connections.nl/ Development experts in NL and B IMPLEMENTATION MODEL GLOBAL CONNECTIONS Account facility Moderator ??? Moderator ASC Account facility Connecting Africa Connecting Asia Connecting LatinAmerica

14. PROJECT PROPOSAL: INTERNATIONALISING CONNECTING- AFRICA Funding: NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research ) Subsidy period: september 2006 – sept. 2009 Subsidy requested: € 55.000 Partners: African Studies Centre CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa ) AEGIS (Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies)

15. PROJECT PROPOSAL: INTERNATIONALISING CONNECTING- AFRICA Activities: to extend Connecting-Africa with research information from Africa and Europe to enlarge Connecting-Africa with the Africanist communities in Africa and Europe

16. Connecting Africa Harvester IR EXTENDED IMPLEMENTATION MODEL CONNECTING-AFRICA Analyzer (Filter) Account facility Moderator ASC Experts/Org. Publications Moderator NAIMod. CODESRIA Account facilityContact database

17. Connecting African Studies Globally ! www.connecting-africa.net