This strategic collaboration aims to develop and implement open, reliable, and accessible research infrastructure services that support the digitization and sharing of research outputs including local knowledge and patent metadata from Burkina Faso and the broader French-speaking sub-Saharan African region.
Speaking on the partnership, Joy Owango, the Africa PID Alliance project lead remarked;
“This partnership is about representation. Assigning persistent identifiers to African knowledge systems ensures they’re not only preserved but also acknowledged as critical contributions. This work creates space for Francophone Africa to lead in shaping open research infrastructure that reflects its linguistic, cultural, and intellectual diversity, ensuring that no region or language community is left behind in the digital knowledge economy.”
For Mr. Sabari Christian DAO, Director General of the National Museum of Burkina Faso (MNBF),
“This partnership represents a significant opportunity for our institution to contribute to the development of open research infrastructure services, as well as the digitization and dissemination of research results across Africa. It also marks an important milestone for the MNBF, which has been working for some time to embrace a modernization process aimed at improving the conservation and exhibition practices of its collections.
About the National Museum of Burkina Faso (MNBF)
The MNBF is a public state institution with scientific, technical, and cultural responsibilities. Its primary mission is to ensure the protection, preservation, and promotion of Burkina Faso’s tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Since its establishment in 1962, and with over a hundred exhibitions held, the MNBF currently houses more than 14,000 objects across archaeological, contemporary, and ethnographic collections. As the country’s leading heritage institution, it serves as a major platform contributing to the development of other museums and various cultural initiatives
About Joseph KI-ZERBO UNIVERSITY (UJKZ)
The Joseph KI-ZERBO UNIVERSITY (UJKZ), created in April 1974, is a public institution of the State of a scientific, cultural and technical nature whose two (02) main missions are training and scientific research. It affirms the place of fundamental research as a generator of knowledge for human development. It also intends to contribute to the development of Burkina Faso and Africa, thanks to the results of its applied research and the many services to the populations of its teacher-researchers. Its headquarters are in Ouagadougou (website: https://www.ujkz.bf. It is the dean and largest public university in the country with one hundred and forty-one (141) training courses (2023-2024) divided between five (05) Training and Research Units (UFR), six (06) Institutes, two (02) University Centers (CU), four (04) Doctoral Schools and four (04) Centers of Excellence.
About Africa PID Alliance
The Africa PID Alliance is dedicated to securing the future of African innovation, indigenous knowledge, and cultural heritage. Through the provision of reliable open research infrastructure services, the alliance enables access to knowledge and metadata about digital objects, with a strong emphasis on Africa’s unique contributions to global research.The Africa PID Alliance is the Open Infrastructure program of the Training Centre in Communication. For more information, visit: https://www.doi.org/
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