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SUMMARY:Bridging the Gap and Strengthening Connections Between Academia and Policymaking
DESCRIPTION:Communicating research findings to policymakers is crucial for bridging the gap between academia and real-world impact. This webinar will explore effective strategies\, best practices\, and case studies to bridge the gap between research outcomes and policymaking processes. During the discussions\, we will explore the importance of effective communication strategies in conveying complex research insights to policymakers. Our focus will be on maximizing engagement\, relevance\, and actionable outcomes to influence policy agendas for meaningful societal impact. Participants are encouraged to come with successful strategies or case studies where research findings have directly influenced policymaking processes. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights and enhance your ability to effectively communicate research to policymakers. \nThe discussion will address the following questions: \n\nWhat are some common challenges researchers face when communicating their findings to policymakers?\nHow can researchers ensure that their research findings are effectively communicated to policymakers in a way that resonates with their needs and priorities?\nWhat role do interdisciplinary collaborations play in enhancing the communication of research findings to policymakers?\nHow can researchers leverage digital tools and platforms to enhance the reach and impact of their research on policymakers and the broader community?\n\nSpeaker \nProf. Rebecca Hanlin \nRebecca is a science\, technology\, and innovation policy expert with an emphasis on promoting innovation and business development opportunities for small and medium sized businesses in Africa at the DSI/NRF Trilateral Research Chair in Transformative Innovation\, the 4IR & Sustainable Development in the College of Business and Economics. She has a strong background in managerial positions overseeing personnel and budgets in the private sector in Africa prior to returning to academia. Rebecca has also managed a number of research related responsibilities at the Open University and is providing innovation and development advice to the AfricaLics network of innovation scholars in Africa. \nRebecca has over 20 years of experience working in developing countries from Cuba to Nigeria. In Africa she has predominately lived and worked in Tanzania and Kenya. \nHow to register \nIf you are interested in attending the alumni event\, please register via this link or get in touch with Ms. Yvonne Gitu at Y.Gitu@acts-net.org for more details. \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email from AfricaLics Zoom account containing information about joining the webinar. Please ensure you add the invitation to your calendar.
URL:https://africalics.org/event/bridging-the-gap-and-strengthening-connections-between-academia-and-policymaking/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom\, Kenya
CATEGORIES:Virtual Events,Webinar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Nairobi:20240606T160000
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SUMMARY:Sustainable Agrifood Systems Transformation in Africa – A Mission Orientated Agricultural Innovation System Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Smallholder dominated agrifood systems in sub-Sahara Africa\, like other developing regions are at a transformative crossroad shaped by multiple\, interacting social\, environmental\, and economic challenges. These include persisting food and nutrition insecurity coupled with food waste and loss\, effects of climate change induced extreme weather\, biodiversity loss\, global threats like conflict and economic crises that have exposed the vulnerability of these food systems. \nTo support agrifood system transformation to simultaneously addresses these challenges requires coupling technological\, social\, and institutional dimensions. While the agricultural innovation systems lens has been applied to interrogate and guide food systems innovation\, persistent and emerging challenges calls for a rethink.  Considering the urgency to transform food systems\, we reflect on how a mission orientation perspective orientation (Mazzucato\, 2018\, Klerkx and Begemann\, 2020) offers new insights to shape innovation processes. We apply this to the problem of food loss and waste in the Kenyan context\, anchoring it on the ongoing initiative under the African Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Cooling (ACES) to system innovate sustainable cooling and cold chain to smallholder farming system in a warming world. \nSpeaker \n\nDr. Catherine Kilelu\, Director\, Communication\, Outreach and Partnerships at the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS).  Dr. Kilelu received a PhD in Social Sciences from Wageningen University with her thesis focusing on the role of innovation support for inclusive smallholder commercialization. She has vast experience in Research for Development\, having worked at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)\, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and as a Consultant. \nHer research interests are in agri-food systems innovation and transitions mainly in sub-Saharan Africa linked to sustainability\, competitiveness\, employment creation and resilient livelihoods and on circular bio-economy. Dr. Kilelu has numerous publications in international peer reviewed journals and book chapters related to these themes. \n\n\nHow to register \n\n\n\n\nIf you are interested in attending the webinar\, please register via this link or get in touch with Ms. Yvonne Gitu at Y.Gitu@acts-net.org for more details. \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email from AfricaLics Zoom account containing information about joining the webinar. Please ensure you add the invitation to your calendar.
URL:https://africalics.org/event/sustainable-agrifood-systems-transformation-in-africa/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom\, Kenya
CATEGORIES:Virtual Events,Webinar Series
ORGANIZER;CN="AfricaLics Secretariat":MAILTO:secretariat@africalics.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240530T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240530T173000
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SUMMARY:The Making of a Nobel Laureate in the Interdisciplinary Field of Transformative Innovation System(TIS)
DESCRIPTION:The Nobel prizes that are awarded annually are in  peace\, economics\, literature \, physiology\, chemistry\, physics and medicine.  Mathematics \, environmental science\, astronomy and Transformative innovation systems(TIS) are not included in the annual nobel laureate award.\nThe  transformative innovation system must be included as a field of research and learning  by making sure the Nobel laureate can recognise it. I was invited by the Swedish Nobel committee team\, and I recommended that the Transformative  Innovation System(TIS) should be included in the Nobel laureate winner  list. I also strongly recommended that the peace nobel winners are not always  those that deserve it. There should be thorough research of their contribution before the Nobel Laureate  awards them the prize.  Another very important recommendation is that the  indigenous knowledge\, especially linked both to medicine and astronomy\, must also be included in the  Nobel laureate list. The binary logic mathematics that is now running the entire internet world was created in Ethiopia in Africa. The  prediction of planets  in Astronomy was published by the book Abu Shaker and this astronomical  knowledge from indigenous origin  in Africa   must be recognised and appreciated. The first university was created in Africa \, but this is not  known by all including Africans. The Nobel laureate must be open to award not just those with Phds but also those who have invented\, innovated and created novel and original knowledge. The research output from the Globelics\, Africalics and all other Lics must be evaluated\, monitored and investigated and nobel prize winners  in this interdisciplinary\, science\, technology\, innovation and sustainable development should also  be permitted by including in the list this interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary  transformative innovation system. We have created the African journal  of Science\, Technology\, Innovation and Development and it is earning royalty. The journal with Research Policy and Innovation and Development and others   can reinforce the recognition of the TIS in the nobel award winning list.\nThe lecture will highlight how the not currently included  disciplinary\, interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary fields  must no longer  be excluded. How and why they must be included will highlight the principal  presentation.\n\nSpeaker\n\n\nProf. Mammo Muchie \n\nProf. Mammo Muchie is currently a DST/NRF research chair of innovation studies at Tshwane University of Technology\, a fellow at the South African Academy of Sciences and the African Academy of Sciences\, and an adjunct professor at the Adama Science and Technology University\, Ethiopia. Muchie has been Senior Research Associate at the SLPMTD program and is currently the Senior Research Associate at the TMCD Centre at Oxford University collaborating with researchers on diffusion of innovation in low income countries and the potential new research area of Africa-China industrial high-technology sectors. In 2009\, Mammo Muchie founded the African Journal on Science\, Technology\, Innovation and Development of which he is also the Chief Editor. Also\, Prof. Mammo helped found the first African Globelics Doctoral Academy in 2009\, and AfricaLics. He is one of the founding scientific board members of the network that connects North Africa with the Middle East and Southern Europe. Professor Mammo has produced numerous publications\, some of which are internationally accredited and entries in institutional publications.\n\n\nHow to register \n\n\n\nIf you are interested in attending the webinar\, please register via this link or get in touch with Yvonne Gitu at Y.Gitu@acts-net.org for more details. \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email from AfricaLics Zoom account containing information about joining the webinar. Please ensure you add the invitation to your calendar.
URL:https://africalics.org/event/the-making-of-a-nobel-laureate-in-the-interdciplinary-field-of-transformative-innovation-systemtis/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom\, Kenya
CATEGORIES:Virtual Events,Webinar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240523T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240523T173000
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SUMMARY:Developing Technology Policy in Africa
DESCRIPTION:This seminar proposes a revised perspective for Science\, Technology and Innovation (STI) policies in Africa\, one that focuses more on the direct facilitation of economic production at domestic levels. It suggests the creation of institutional frameworks designed to embed new knowledge directly into economic production itself. This argument supports the growth of the small-scale and informal sectors\, which requires a wider engagement by of local and national governments\, and other development partners. This seminar intends to generate a conversation towards a scenario in which the gross financial inequalities that have beset Africa for so long will begin to be modified to the ultimate benefit of all.\nAfter the seminar\, there will be a brief introduction to an upcoming opportunity to publish policy and practice oriented perspectives and case study articles on Africa through the international journal of technology development and sustainable development (IJTMSD).\n\nSpeaker \n\n\nProf. Norman Clark is an expert in innovation systems and development and Emeritus Professor at The Open University and the University of Strathclyde\, UK. His research interests include science and technology development in Africa and South Asia\, a field in which he has acted also as an adviser to relevant agencies including the World Bank\, UNCTAD\, UNDP\, DFID\, NEPAD and the CGIAR. He continues to serve on the Governing Council of the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS)\, Nairobi\, Kenya.\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to register \n\n\n\n\nIf you are interested in attending the webinar\, please register via this link or get in touch with Yvonne Gitu at Y.Gitu@acts-net.org for more details. \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email from AfricaLics Zoom account containing information about joining the webinar. Please ensure you add the invitation to your calendar.
URL:https://africalics.org/event/developing-technology-policy-in-africa/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom\, Kenya
CATEGORIES:Virtual Events,Webinar Series
ORGANIZER;CN="AfricaLics Secretariat":MAILTO:secretariat@africalics.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240314T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240314T173000
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SUMMARY:Are we using the right metrics? Towards a research and theoretical agenda for innovation measurement in Africa
DESCRIPTION:Abstract \nIncreasingly\, African states recognise the use of science\, technology and innovation (STI) measurement for assessing progress towards the SDGs and STI Strategy for Africa (STISA) targets\, as well as monitoring STI policy achievements at a national level. A concern is that STI measurement is heavily reliant on concepts and theories transposed from the literature on high-income countries\, begging the question of relevance. Few of the alternative perspectives on innovation and new critical approaches to indicator development emerging from the global South come from or are based on research in Africa. Drawing on a systematic review of the literature\, including a bibliometric analysis\, this paper lays the foundation for future research on STI measurement in Africa\, towards the goal of creating contextually-relevant STI indicators. The main question that the paper addresses is: How does the available literature on STI measurement in Africa provide an empirical and conceptual research base to inform shifting policy and measurement objectives? The review points to key and emerging analytical trends\, and potential research gaps. Also highlighted are trends showing who is playing a role in shaping the agenda\, which point to the need to build a research community of practice. Based on this review\, we elaborate a research agenda for developing conceptual and empirical frameworks to measure what we should be measuring for innovation and development policy in African country contexts. \nLearn more about the research and access the report: https://shorturl.at/tzQY0 \nHow to register \n\nIf you are interested in attending the webinar\, please register via this link or get in touch with Yvonne Gitu at Y.Gitu@acts-net.org for more details. \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email from AfricaLics Zoom account containing information about joining the webinar. Please ensure you add the invitation to your calendar. \nProgramme \n\n\n\n\nChair: Lukovi Seke\, AUDA-NEPAD\n\n\n16:00 – 16:10 PM\n\nWelcome \nIntroduction to the thematic chair\nChair: Lukovi Seke \nDr. David Adeyeye. NACETEM\n\n\n16:10 – 16:40 PM\nPresentation:  \nAre we using the right metrics? Towards a research and theoretical agenda for innovation measurement in Africa\nPresentations: \n\nDr. Maruf Sanni\, NACETEM\nDr. Il-haam Petersen\, CeSTII\, HSRC\nDr. Glenda Kruss\, CeSTII\, HSRC\n\n\n\n\n16:40 – 17:00 PM\n\nDiscussants \n\n\nDr. Bitrina Diyamett\nProf. Diran Soumonni\n\n\n\n\n17:00 – 17:25 PM\n\nDiscussion\nOpen discussion\n\n\n17:25 – 17:30 PM\n\nIn closing\, comments based on experience in Latin America\nProf. Isabel Bortagaray\, University of Uruguay (TBC)\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://africalics.org/event/are-we-using-the-right-metrics-towards-a-research-and-theoretical-agenda-for-innovation-measurement-in-africa/
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