Fellows

Fellows Report by Mr. Bisi Ajibola – Nigeria

By Bisi Ajibola

March 2, 2021

The IASSIST Africa Chapter Workshop held from 11th to 13th of January 2021 at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda was attended physically and virtually by participants from all over the world. The President of IASSIST, Prof. Sandra Cannon and the President of Association of Parliamentary Librarians of Eastern and Southern Africa were among the international personalities that graced the conference. This justified the universality nature of the workshop by attendance, participation, coverage and delivery.

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Fellows Report by Joy Judith Nyangoma – Uganda

By Joy Judith Nyangoma

March 2, 2021

This workshop was held at the College of Computing and Information Sciences within Makerere University with participants attending either physically and virtually. Remember, IASSIST has been in existence for 40 years and still growing higher and higher. Several themes were discussed and each participant, according to their presentations, had put in much effort to share at the Africa Regional Workshop. A presentation by Kofi Dokli took my attention because, as they planted maize and backyard farming of, they also did family backyard farming in cucumber and okra, they also found out variances in the weather between northern and southern Ghana.

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IASSIST Fellows Program 2015-16

By StuartM

December 14, 2015

The IASSIST Fellows Program is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for financial support to attend the IASSIST 2016 conference in Bergen [http://iassist2016.org/] from data professionals who are developing, supporting and managing data infrastructures at their home institutions. Please be aware that funding is not intended to cover the entire cost of attending the conference. The applicant’s home institution must provide some level of financial support to supplement an IASSIST Fellow award.

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IASSIST Fellows Program 2014-15

By StuartIQ

November 12, 2014

The IASSIST Fellows Program is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for financial support to attend the IASSIST 2015 conference in Minneapolis [https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/iassist-2015/], from data professionals who are developing, supporting and managing data infrastructures at their home institutions. Please be aware that funding is not intended to cover the entire cost of attending the conference. The applicant’s home institution must provide some level of financial support to supplement an IASSIST Fellow award.

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IASSIST Fellows 2014

By l.martinez-uribe

April 10, 2014

The IASSIST Fellows Committee is glad to announce through this post the four recipients of the 2014 IASSIST Fellowship award. We are extremely excited to have such a diverse and interesting group with different backgrounds and experience and encourage IASSISTers to welcome them at our conference in Toronto, Canada. Please find below their names, countries and brief bios: Antonin Benoit, Head Librarian at the African Institute for Economic Development and Planning.

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IASSIST Fellows Program 2013-14

By StuartM

November 19, 2013

The IASSIST Fellows Program is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for financial support to attend the IASSIST 2014 conference in Toronto [http://www.library.yorku.ca/cms/iassist/], from data professionals who are developing, supporting and managing data infrastructures at their home institutions. Please be aware that funding is not intended to cover the entire cost of attending the conference. The applicant’s home institution must provide some level of financial support to supplement an IASSIST Fellow award.

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IASSIST Fellows 2013

By l.martinez-uribe

May 6, 2013

The IASSIST Fellows Committee is glad to announce through this post the six recipients of the 2013 IASSIST Fellowship award. We are extremely excited to have such a diverse and interesting group with different backgrounds and experience and encourage IASSISTers to welcome them at our conference in Cologne, Germany. Please find below their names, countries and brief bios: **Chifundo Kanjala (Tanzania) ** Chifundo currently works as a Data Manager and data documentalist for an HIV research group called ALPHA network based at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s department of Population Health, Chifundo spends most of his time in Mwanza, Tanzania but do travel from time around Southern and Eastern Africa to work with colleagues in the ALPHA network.

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IASSIST 2013 Fellows update

By l.martinez-uribe

March 20, 2013

This year the IASSIST Fellows Committee received a grand total of 44 Fellows applications from a strong range of candidates from 28 countries around the globe: 18 Asia 13 Africa 7 Europe 3 North America 2 Latin America 1 Australia Applications have been evaluated by the IASSIST Fellows Committee and offers have been made to a number of prospective Fellows to attend the annual conference in Cologne, Germany. We shall announce the names of those who have accepted the Fellows awards shortly.

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IASSIST Fellows Application Form 2013

By StuartM

December 4, 2012

The IASSIST Fellows Program is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for financial support to attend the IASSIST 2013 conference in Cologne [http://www.iassist2013.org/], from data professionals who are developing, supporting and managing data infrastructures at their home institutions. It should be noted that funding is not intended to cover the entire cost of attending the conference and that the applicant’s home institution must provide some level of financial support to supplement an IASSIST Fellow award.

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IASSIST Fellows application now closed

By l.martinez-uribe

March 3, 2012

The application for IASSIST Fellows is now closed. Over 40 applications from 23 different countries have been received with the following number of applications by region: 23 Latin America 12 Africa 6 Asia The Fellows Committee is now working to evaluate the applications and will make the decisions in the following weeks. Good luck to all participants.

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