Dear Anelda Many thanks for the introductions. And just to share a few things with the community and by way of introductions We at the department of Computer Science University of Botswana are keen on joining this network and engaging in the capacity building initiatives around software and data carpentry.
We are embarking on projects and collaborative frameworks in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region in relation to develping Cyberinfrastructure (HPC, NREns, Data Sharing, People) to provide a platform for addressing National and Regional Challenges – this involves Infrastructure Development, promoting R&D, Human Capital Development, Strategic partnerships and governance of such Regional framework say through regional bodies like http://www.sadc.int/ on STI. We have had some traction with HPC capacity building, and had good collaborations with international partners and we are constantly looking to expand our linkages , see some initiatiatives involving collaborators in US http://www.stem-trek.org/2015/11/04/sadc-sc15/ and the upcoming, http://www.stem-trek.org/news-events/hpconcommonground/ We are also engaged in the ACM Chpater SIGHPC-RCE – promoting HPC in Resource Constrained Environments https://sighpc-rce.acm.org/ We are also keen on programmes for implementing our capacity building around Datascience to train and support our researchers around University of Botswana faculties http://www.ub.bw/ Botswana like other Southern African countries will host sites for The Square Kilometer Project https://www.ska.ac.za/about/the-project/, and there is great need to create a pipeline of researchers in all relevant areas and cross cutting areas We at the Computer Science department are engaging to create a basis for training our students and stakeholders and are currently also going through a curricullum review process to incorporate appropriate aspect for Multidisciplinary degree. We have also recently held High Performance Computing and Data Cyber infrastructure and OpenData Workshop - http://www.cs.ub.bw/icicis/node/129. This was at the ICICIS Conference the epartment of Computer Science organised this year with National and international Stakekolders. We wish to grow this event to become one of the platforms in Africa for these discussions in promoting trustworthy open data sharing and open science We are also keen on developing Industry-University-Student co-creation platforms to help upskill our graduates in industry related skills, so we are participating in the SAP University Allince - http://scn.sap.com/community/uac SAP SE has announced “Plans for First Big Data Innovation Center and Innovation Lab With Universities” - https://news.sap.com/sap-big-data-innovation-center-lab/ I will be in Berlin and Potsdam for the annual SAP University Alliance EMEA conference http://events.sap.com/sap-academic-conference-emea-2016/en/home to engage. We are always keen to engage and wish to engage the Sofware and Data Carpentry network to look forward and host training events at the University for the benefit of our large Botswana stakeholders, I will also be in Dresden visiting TU Dresden and Biotec So if anyone is in Berlin, Potsdam, Dresden I will be happy to meet and find synergies Many thanks Regards Tshiamo -------------------------------------- Dr Tshiamo Motshegwa, HPC project Coordinator Dept of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Botswana, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [cid:[email protected]] University of Botswana Private Bag UB 00704 4775 Notwane Rd Gaborone Botswana ------------------------------------- From: Anelda van der Walt [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 2, 2016 4:31 PM To: [email protected]; Motshegwa, Tshiamo(Dr) Subject: Introducing Tshiamo from Botswana Dear Carpenters, I'd like to introduce Tshiamo Motshegwa, HPC Project Coordinator in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Botswana. He's also now getting involved in H3Africa bioinformatics projects with colleagues at his university. Tshiamo was recently introduced to SWC/DC at the CODATA/RDA Research Data Science Summer School at ICTP and participated in the SWC/DC workshop we ran in South Africa this week. He will be traveling to Germany this coming week and will be in Berlin & Potsdam from 4 - 9 September and in Dresden thereafter. He's quite interested to become more involved in the community and I was wondering if anyone may be in those areas and keen to meet up with him for dinner or a drink. Tshiamo is copied on the email - please get in touch with him directly. Thanks! Anelda
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