From 6 to 8
September 2006, the Council for the Development of Social
Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and
the African Studies Centre (ASC)
co-organised
a conference on Electronic Publishing and Dissemination in
Leiden,
The Netherlands.
The conference was attended by over sixty
participants from
Africa as well as Europe, America and Asia.
Those who attended were among
others
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Information and
communication professionals (archivists, librarians,
documentalists etc.)
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Information and
communication technologists
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Electronic publishing
professionals
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Researchers, experts,
publishers, distributors, consultants
The conference sessions were
organized around the following sessions:
The Executive Secretary of
CODESRIA, Professor Adebayo Olukoshi made the opening speech and
a total of 25 papers were presented in both English and French,
with a follow up of a 4 session reports.