- Create a virtual observatory on trends and current evolution of e-Infrastructures in Africa with the perspective of gathering concrete requirements to boost Academic and Industrial research;
- Develop a foresight study identifying qualitative as well as quantitative benefits in adopting African Research Infrastructures as basic building blocks for other key IST areas via the ERINA study methodology;
- Provide a series of virtual conferences and local meetings to both promote and validate the project results.
What ERINA4Africa is doing:
- Mapping the demand side of Africa e-Infrastructure potential to understand what projects are being run, with which technology, how it these are financed, who are the partners and what geographical scope. The project will map the services and the scientific data being used & generated.
- Mapping the supply side of African e-Infrastructure research to evaluate innovation potential of e-Infrastructures in Africa, in the areas of e-Health, e-Government and e-Learning.
- Creating a virtual observatory of case studies and best practices related to the adoption of e-Infrastructures in the fields of e-Health, e-Government, and e-Learning. Case studies will be stored on the website and made accessible and searchable via a series of parameters.
- Drawing on the ERINA study methodology:
- Performing quantitative analysis to measure the benefits of e-Infrastructure and Global Virtual Research Communities in Africa.
- Performing qualitative analysis to focus on the key processes in e-Infrastructures in Africa. In particular, this will analyze the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of their adoption.
- Creating a website to promote the Erina4Africa project and its distinct phases and supporting the virtual observatory and data collection.
- Organising three events (one workshop in Malawi, one workshop in Rwanda, and a final conference) as well as working side by side with eIAfrica and IST-Africa initiatives.
