TY - GEN
T1 - AFRICA BUILD portal
T2 - 2013 IST-Africa Conference and Exhibition, IST-Africa 2013
AU - Ramirez-Robles, Maximo
AU - Jimenez-Castellanos, Ana
AU - Khalifa, Aly
AU - Anne, Abdrahamane
AU - Kamga, Yannick N.
AU - Afagbedzi, Seth
AU - Maojo, Victor
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The AFRICA BUILD project aims to develop and support health care, education and research centres in Africa through Information and Communication Technologies. One of the main outputs of the project is a collaborative platform which integrates a myriad of research and learning resources. This article presents the first prototype of this platform: the AFRICA BUILD Portal (ABP 1.0). The ABP is a Web 2.0 platform which facilitates the access, in a collaborative manner, to these resources. Through a usable web interface, the ABP has been designed to avoid, as much as possible, the connectivity problems of African institutions. In this paper, we suggest that the access to complex systems does not imply slow response rates, and that their development model guides the project to a natural technological transfer, adaptation and user acceptance. Finally, this platform aims to motivate research attitudes during the learning process and stimulate user's collaborations.
AB - The AFRICA BUILD project aims to develop and support health care, education and research centres in Africa through Information and Communication Technologies. One of the main outputs of the project is a collaborative platform which integrates a myriad of research and learning resources. This article presents the first prototype of this platform: the AFRICA BUILD Portal (ABP 1.0). The ABP is a Web 2.0 platform which facilitates the access, in a collaborative manner, to these resources. Through a usable web interface, the ABP has been designed to avoid, as much as possible, the connectivity problems of African institutions. In this paper, we suggest that the access to complex systems does not imply slow response rates, and that their development model guides the project to a natural technological transfer, adaptation and user acceptance. Finally, this platform aims to motivate research attitudes during the learning process and stimulate user's collaborations.
KW - AFRICA BUILD
KW - Capacity Building
KW - Education
KW - Health Information
KW - Resource Integration
KW - Social Networks
KW - Sub-Sahara
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84893728630&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893728630
SN - 9781905824397
T3 - 2013 IST-Africa Conference and Exhibition, IST-Africa 2013
BT - 2013 IST-Africa Conference and Exhibition, IST-Africa 2013
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 29 May 2013 through 31 May 2013
ER -