Pub Date : 2014-05-07DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880603
M. Santally, D. Cooshna-Naik, N. Conruyt
A Living Lab is an environment for user-centered innovation, based on the observation of every-day user practice and experience for solving problems, but also based on their active participation, with an approach that facilitates their influence in the open and distributed innovation process (participatory design). According to the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) a Living Lab is driven by four major elements namely Co-Creation, Exploration, Experimentation and Evaluation. Co-Creation is mainly about user involvement in the elaboration of innovative products and services. The Virtual Centre for Innovative Learning Technologies is a specialized unit in Education Technology at the University of Mauritius, focusing mainly on Innovative Teacher Training Systems targeting mainly in-service educators. The VCILT adheres to the concept of open innovation systems and aims to become part of the Living Lab network. In this paper we describe the theoretical foundations of Living Lab from our own local practices and operational framework and discuss the components that make up a preliminary framework or model for the establishment of a Living Lab focusing mainly on the classroom education of the future for Mauritius. There are three major components that would form the backbone of our Living Lab namely the Research and Development, Teacher Education and finally The Classroom Environment and Teaching Practices. Our proposed Living Lab model is inspired from the University of Reunion Island Living Lab for Teaching and Learning, the FunEcole Living Lab, the Classroom of the Future Living Lab and the Ways of Learning for the Future Living Lab which are all established members of the ENoLL network.
Living Lab是一个以用户为中心的创新环境，它基于对用户日常实践和解决问题的经验的观察，同时也基于用户的积极参与，通过一种促进他们在开放和分布式创新过程中的影响的方法(参与式设计)。根据欧洲生活实验室网络(ENoLL)，生活实验室由四个主要要素驱动，即共同创造、探索、实验和评估。共同创造主要是用户参与创新产品和服务的阐述。创新学习技术虚拟中心是毛里求斯大学教育技术的一个专门单位，主要侧重于主要针对在职教育工作者的创新教师培训系统。VCILT坚持开放式创新系统的概念，旨在成为生活实验室网络的一部分。在本文中，我们从我们自己的本地实践和操作框架中描述了生活实验室的理论基础，并讨论了构成建立生活实验室的初步框架或模型的组成部分，主要关注毛里求斯未来的课堂教育。我们的生活实验室有三个主要组成部分，即研发、教师教育和课堂环境与教学实践。我们提出的生活实验室模式的灵感来自留尼旺岛大学的教学生活实验室，FunEcole生活实验室，未来生活实验室的教室和未来生活实验室的学习方式，这些都是ENoLL网络的既定成员。
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Pub Date : 2014-05-07DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880591
Thato E. Foko, Acheson Charles Phiri, N. Mahwai
Most South African citizens are confronted daily with problems of accessing basic public services. With the mandate of carrying out research and development intended to improve lives of ordinary South Africans the role of research institutions such as the CSIR's Meraka is important. This allows these research and development organisations to be reliable partners to Governments in their endeavour to provide quality service delivery as proposed by the Batho Pele (People First) principle. The aim of this paper is to use Meraka Institute as a case study to portray potential benefits Government can derive by partnering with R&D institutions in the delivery of services. These R&D institutions can provide solutions on the different service delivery challenges. The methods section describes the overall evaluation design and data collection strategies employed in this study, which are based on the design-based-research as a set of analytical techniques intended to bridge theory and practice. The study is based on personal feedback from Meraka's researchers and by carrying out desktop study on the contribution and potential contribution to e-service delivery. The results show that it is the focal point of Meraka's ICT R&D agenda to contribute to delivery of services by government and its agencies for the benefit of all citizens.
{"title":"The e-service delivery in South Africa and the contribution of research institutions such as the CSIR-Meraka Institute","authors":"Thato E. Foko, Acheson Charles Phiri, N. Mahwai","doi":"10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880591","url":null,"abstract":"Most South African citizens are confronted daily with problems of accessing basic public services. With the mandate of carrying out research and development intended to improve lives of ordinary South Africans the role of research institutions such as the CSIR's Meraka is important. This allows these research and development organisations to be reliable partners to Governments in their endeavour to provide quality service delivery as proposed by the Batho Pele (People First) principle. The aim of this paper is to use Meraka Institute as a case study to portray potential benefits Government can derive by partnering with R&D institutions in the delivery of services. These R&D institutions can provide solutions on the different service delivery challenges. The methods section describes the overall evaluation design and data collection strategies employed in this study, which are based on the design-based-research as a set of analytical techniques intended to bridge theory and practice. The study is based on personal feedback from Meraka's researchers and by carrying out desktop study on the contribution and potential contribution to e-service delivery. The results show that it is the focal point of Meraka's ICT R&D agenda to contribute to delivery of services by government and its agencies for the benefit of all citizens.","PeriodicalId":248893,"journal":{"name":"2014 IST-Africa Conference Proceedings","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133868859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-05-07DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880671
Ravi Foogooa, K. Dookhitram
In an attempt to reduce the effect of global warming, tremendous research works are now focusing on greening ICT and greening by ICT. As such several maturity models have been designed to track the progress of an organisation. However, these models are not easily accessible by Small Medium Enterprises due to the high cost involves in consulting. Thus, based upon existing maturity framework, this paper presents a self green ICT maturity assessment tool which has the properties of being simple, efficient and accessible. Some business benefits with respects to the proposed green ICT maturity self-assessment tool are also illustrated.
{"title":"A self green ICT maturity assessment tool for SMEs","authors":"Ravi Foogooa, K. Dookhitram","doi":"10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880671","url":null,"abstract":"In an attempt to reduce the effect of global warming, tremendous research works are now focusing on greening ICT and greening by ICT. As such several maturity models have been designed to track the progress of an organisation. However, these models are not easily accessible by Small Medium Enterprises due to the high cost involves in consulting. Thus, based upon existing maturity framework, this paper presents a self green ICT maturity assessment tool which has the properties of being simple, efficient and accessible. Some business benefits with respects to the proposed green ICT maturity self-assessment tool are also illustrated.","PeriodicalId":248893,"journal":{"name":"2014 IST-Africa Conference Proceedings","volume":"173 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131678910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-05-07DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880624
Jecinta Kamau, Andrew Reberio-Hargrave, Hiroaki Saito, E. Abdullah, Hiroshi Okajima, Ashir Ahmed
Unreached communities require access to fundamental social services such as healthcare, education, learning and purchasing opportunities to improve their economic sustainability. Unreached communities are characterized by informal and unsafe transport. Villagers have to travel long distances to urban centres to attain social services. In this article, we introduce an Information Communication Technology (ICT) concept called Social Services on Wheels (SSW) to provide quality transit and overcome access problems by bringing e-services directly to the community. SSW is based on a community vehicle that is as a college bus service and mobile ICT platform. SSW takes a healthcare worker, an ICT assistant and their equipment to a service point allowing villagers to access telemedicine and Internet services. SSW was tested on a rural community in Bangladesh in 2012 and 2013. A cost analysis shows that 52% of the total operating cost was covered using the existing business model. The research contributes to the discussion on sustainable ICT for Development (ICT4D).
{"title":"Social services on wheels: A sustainable model to improve access in unreached communities","authors":"Jecinta Kamau, Andrew Reberio-Hargrave, Hiroaki Saito, E. Abdullah, Hiroshi Okajima, Ashir Ahmed","doi":"10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880624","url":null,"abstract":"Unreached communities require access to fundamental social services such as healthcare, education, learning and purchasing opportunities to improve their economic sustainability. Unreached communities are characterized by informal and unsafe transport. Villagers have to travel long distances to urban centres to attain social services. In this article, we introduce an Information Communication Technology (ICT) concept called Social Services on Wheels (SSW) to provide quality transit and overcome access problems by bringing e-services directly to the community. SSW is based on a community vehicle that is as a college bus service and mobile ICT platform. SSW takes a healthcare worker, an ICT assistant and their equipment to a service point allowing villagers to access telemedicine and Internet services. SSW was tested on a rural community in Bangladesh in 2012 and 2013. A cost analysis shows that 52% of the total operating cost was covered using the existing business model. The research contributes to the discussion on sustainable ICT for Development (ICT4D).","PeriodicalId":248893,"journal":{"name":"2014 IST-Africa Conference Proceedings","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123685424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-05-07DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880606
Rhoda Gitonga, Maina Muuro, D. Nzuki
Wiki spaces are simply web pages that allow users to create, edit and share each other's work. This paper shares experiences from a group of students who were using the Wiki spaces in their course work. It attempts to use collaborative knowledge building theory to evaluate the existing Wiki spaces practices in order to inform stakeholders on the power of Wiki spaces in setting students on a knowledge building trajectory. The respondents were 150 university students from Kenyatta and KCA universities in Kenya whose lecturers had created Wiki spaces for collaborative group tasks as part of their coursework during the September to December 2013 semester. More than 50% of the students found the Wiki spaces promoting the various aspects of knowledge building such as reflective learning and propagating idea diversity to be useful. This paper underscores the importance of Wiki spaces as environments for positioning today's students on a knowledge building track which is a skill set requirement for the 21st century graduate.
{"title":"Students experiences of using Wiki spaces to support collaborative learning in a blended classroom: A case of Kenyatta and KCA universities in Kenya","authors":"Rhoda Gitonga, Maina Muuro, D. Nzuki","doi":"10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880606","url":null,"abstract":"Wiki spaces are simply web pages that allow users to create, edit and share each other's work. This paper shares experiences from a group of students who were using the Wiki spaces in their course work. It attempts to use collaborative knowledge building theory to evaluate the existing Wiki spaces practices in order to inform stakeholders on the power of Wiki spaces in setting students on a knowledge building trajectory. The respondents were 150 university students from Kenyatta and KCA universities in Kenya whose lecturers had created Wiki spaces for collaborative group tasks as part of their coursework during the September to December 2013 semester. More than 50% of the students found the Wiki spaces promoting the various aspects of knowledge building such as reflective learning and propagating idea diversity to be useful. This paper underscores the importance of Wiki spaces as environments for positioning today's students on a knowledge building track which is a skill set requirement for the 21st century graduate.","PeriodicalId":248893,"journal":{"name":"2014 IST-Africa Conference Proceedings","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125752460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-05-07DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880635
A. Sukhoo, P. Bhattacharyya, M. Soobron
Translation between one language and another is extensively carried out by students, tourists and business persons. The importance of translation cannot be underestimated, especially with the number of translation devices in use by travellers. Google Translate has set up a multilingual translation system and it is regularly used by people all over the world. In Mauritius, translation of the Mauritian Creole language is not available from Google Translate as the available size of the parallel corpora is quite small. The objective of this study is, therefore, to develop a web-based system for the translation between English language and the Mauritian Creole language for learning the two languages. This project on machine translation for the Mauritian Creole language is a starting point that will benefit the Mauritian population at large as well as the Tourism and Business sectors. Statistical Machine Translation, which is the state of-the-art technique, has been adopted for translation between English and Mauritian Creole language. In this paper, the translation between English and Mauritian Creole language is explored.
{"title":"Translation between English and Mauritian Creole: A statistical machine translation approach","authors":"A. Sukhoo, P. Bhattacharyya, M. Soobron","doi":"10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880635","url":null,"abstract":"Translation between one language and another is extensively carried out by students, tourists and business persons. The importance of translation cannot be underestimated, especially with the number of translation devices in use by travellers. Google Translate has set up a multilingual translation system and it is regularly used by people all over the world. In Mauritius, translation of the Mauritian Creole language is not available from Google Translate as the available size of the parallel corpora is quite small. The objective of this study is, therefore, to develop a web-based system for the translation between English language and the Mauritian Creole language for learning the two languages. This project on machine translation for the Mauritian Creole language is a starting point that will benefit the Mauritian population at large as well as the Tourism and Business sectors. Statistical Machine Translation, which is the state of-the-art technique, has been adopted for translation between English and Mauritian Creole language. In this paper, the translation between English and Mauritian Creole language is explored.","PeriodicalId":248893,"journal":{"name":"2014 IST-Africa Conference Proceedings","volume":"113 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129383454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-05-07DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880662
P. Mvelase, Z. Dlamini, D. Macleod, N. Dlodlo, H. Sithole
Advances in Information Technology have brought about cloud computing, an evolutionary computing practice that facilitates the provisioning of computing services as a utility. Cloud computing has brought about change in the economics and sustainability of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) enabled service provision. In South Africa, major aspects of public cloud computing or cloud in general have not yet been developed and realised and in some cases not even researched, hence the struggle to reach the full promises of public cloud computing locally. Whilst a lot of development and progress worldwide has already been made in the public cloud space, there still remains a wide range of concerns that still need to be addressed in order for it to reach its full potential, more specifically in the South African context. A study identifying fundamental services needed by the community and possibilities for and potential impacts of delivering public services in line with the concept of a cloud of public services is conducted. This paper designs a cloud business model that suits South Africa's perspective. The idea is to model a government public cloud which does not interfere with the secured business functions of the government but find a suitable mechanism to extend government services to the citizens. In adopting this vision, the government must ensure that the cloud service still provides an acceptable level of security risk mitigation and allows government organizations to demonstrate their procedures of meeting legal and statutory obligations as far as information is concerned.
{"title":"A business model for a South African government public cloud platform","authors":"P. Mvelase, Z. Dlamini, D. Macleod, N. Dlodlo, H. Sithole","doi":"10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880662","url":null,"abstract":"Advances in Information Technology have brought about cloud computing, an evolutionary computing practice that facilitates the provisioning of computing services as a utility. Cloud computing has brought about change in the economics and sustainability of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) enabled service provision. In South Africa, major aspects of public cloud computing or cloud in general have not yet been developed and realised and in some cases not even researched, hence the struggle to reach the full promises of public cloud computing locally. Whilst a lot of development and progress worldwide has already been made in the public cloud space, there still remains a wide range of concerns that still need to be addressed in order for it to reach its full potential, more specifically in the South African context. A study identifying fundamental services needed by the community and possibilities for and potential impacts of delivering public services in line with the concept of a cloud of public services is conducted. This paper designs a cloud business model that suits South Africa's perspective. The idea is to model a government public cloud which does not interfere with the secured business functions of the government but find a suitable mechanism to extend government services to the citizens. In adopting this vision, the government must ensure that the cloud service still provides an acceptable level of security risk mitigation and allows government organizations to demonstrate their procedures of meeting legal and statutory obligations as far as information is concerned.","PeriodicalId":248893,"journal":{"name":"2014 IST-Africa Conference Proceedings","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122472880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-05-07DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880630
O. Moonian, K. Khedo, S. Baichoo, Razvi Doomun, Sudha Cheerkoot-Jalim, S. Nagowah, Zarine Cadersaib, Anuja Meetoo-Appavoo, Bibi Rubeena Doomun
The volume of the data involved in healthcare systems and the sensitivity of the data call for strict, non-obtrusive and efficient access control. This paper presents the design and implementation of a software prototype to demonstrate how Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), supported by context-awareness, can be applied in the Mauritian healthcare service for providing efficient and effective access control to patient's data. The work has consisted of studying different models of Role-Based and Context-Based access control used elsewhere and applying it to the Mauritian healthcare sector. The software prototype is based on information flow in a collaborator healthcare institution. The prototype has been implemented as a distributed system based on the client-server model, with the location of users and time of access being forms of context considered. The prototype has been successfully implemented and tested under different scenarios of data access.
{"title":"A secure data access model for the Mauritian healthcare service","authors":"O. Moonian, K. Khedo, S. Baichoo, Razvi Doomun, Sudha Cheerkoot-Jalim, S. Nagowah, Zarine Cadersaib, Anuja Meetoo-Appavoo, Bibi Rubeena Doomun","doi":"10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880630","url":null,"abstract":"The volume of the data involved in healthcare systems and the sensitivity of the data call for strict, non-obtrusive and efficient access control. This paper presents the design and implementation of a software prototype to demonstrate how Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), supported by context-awareness, can be applied in the Mauritian healthcare service for providing efficient and effective access control to patient's data. The work has consisted of studying different models of Role-Based and Context-Based access control used elsewhere and applying it to the Mauritian healthcare sector. The software prototype is based on information flow in a collaborator healthcare institution. The prototype has been implemented as a distributed system based on the client-server model, with the location of users and time of access being forms of context considered. The prototype has been successfully implemented and tested under different scenarios of data access.","PeriodicalId":248893,"journal":{"name":"2014 IST-Africa Conference Proceedings","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131876787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-05-07DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880602
A. Bukenya, J. Kasse, Annette K. Nansubuga
This paper presents the role of science, technology and innovation in the informal sector (Jua Kalis) in Uganda. Due to a lack of capital, increased taxes, lack of or insufficient skills, low or no education and training, limited access to technology and poor infrastructure among others have led to the influx of Jua Kalis. There is therefore a need to encourage and promote Jua Kalis (informal Sector) works using different models of technology promotion in Uganda. The paper also highlights the benefits and opportunities in the informal sector that should be appreciated by the Government.
{"title":"The impact of science, technology and innovation to the informal sector in Uganda","authors":"A. Bukenya, J. Kasse, Annette K. Nansubuga","doi":"10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880602","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the role of science, technology and innovation in the informal sector (Jua Kalis) in Uganda. Due to a lack of capital, increased taxes, lack of or insufficient skills, low or no education and training, limited access to technology and poor infrastructure among others have led to the influx of Jua Kalis. There is therefore a need to encourage and promote Jua Kalis (informal Sector) works using different models of technology promotion in Uganda. The paper also highlights the benefits and opportunities in the informal sector that should be appreciated by the Government.","PeriodicalId":248893,"journal":{"name":"2014 IST-Africa Conference Proceedings","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131167929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-05-07DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880621
C-M. Zwolf, M. Dubernet, Y. Ba, N. Moreau
VAMDC is a worldwide E-infrastructure, built on a European FP7 project, which federates interoperable Atomic and Molecular databases. The contained data are of the highest scientific quality and are crucial for many applications: astrophysics, atmospheric physics, fusion, plasma and lighting technologies, health, etc. In this paper we discuss the actions we are performing for sustaining this E-infrastructure. At first we will detail the political aspects we had to agree within the VAMDC consortium before we could effectively establish an external strategy. Then we will explain how these agreements are implemented in order to built a sustainable plan based on academic, industrial, education and citizen-outreach partnerships. As these actions are related to human and organisational aspects, our experience can be fruitfully transposed to other scientific E-infrastructures.
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