Second International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives (ICADLA-2) ICADLA-2 Bio notes - 1 ICADLA-2 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON PRESENTERS DANIELLE ALOIA Email: daloia@nyam.org Currently, Danielle manages the Grey Literature Report, produced by the New York Academy of Medicine. She received her MSLS from the Catholic University of America, in Washington, DC, in 2005 while working on the AgeLine Database at AARP. She has over 20 years of experience in all varieties of libraries and has been involved with collecting, evaluating, and cataloguing grey literature since 2006 at both AARP and the United States Dept. of Transportation. BEATRICE ADERA AMOLLO Email: beatrice@ausied.com Head of Library and Resources, Australian Studies Institute, Nairobi, Kenya Postal address: P.O. Box 25520, 00603 Nairobi, Kenya. Telephone numbers: Mobile - + 254 722 606717 Office +254 020 4441110- switch board. Beatrice holds a BSc Information Science from Moi University, Kenya and has had 14 years experience working in the information service industry, as a Documentalist, Research Scientist II, Project team leader and Information specialist. She currently heads the library at the Australian Studies Institute (AUSI), where she is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the library. Beatrice is also the lead person in ensuring that AUSI’s teaching and learning processes conform to the regulatory framework in which they are delivered – including Australia Quality Training Framework (AQTF) and the Commission for Higher education (CHE) of Kenya. She was ‘Employee of the year’ in 2010 and is a member of several professional associations including the Kenya Association of Library and Information Professionals (KLA), the Kenya Libraries and Information Services Consortium (KLISC), the Kenya Association of Records Managers and Archivists (KARMA) and the Kenya Bureau of Standards’ Information Science Services Technical Committee responsible for ISO TC46/SC11 – Archives/Records Management. PROFESSOR JOHN CHUKWUDI ANYANWU John Chukwudi Anyanwu holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria; he has had training courses at London School of Economics (UK) & Harvard University (USA) and has been a Visiting Scholar at Cornell University (USA). He is Lead Research Economist in the Development Research Department, Chief Economist Complex. Prior to joining the African Development Bank, Anyanwu was full Professor of Economics, Department of Economics & Statistics, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria; Health Economist/Economic Adviser to Second International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives (ICADLA-2) ICADLA-2 Bio notes - 2 Resident Representative, World Health Organization, Lagos, Nigeria; and Consultant to the African Development Bank, where he had also been Chief Planning Officer in the former Strategic Planning Division. He has delivered over 90 major paper presentations and authored/co-authored over 100 published papers and a number of books. He has conducted studies and published widely in the areas of macroeconomics and growth, economics of poverty, public finance, money and banking, regional/monetary integration, strategy/development effectiveness, and socio-economics, especially health economics and economics of education. He is a life member of the Nigerian Economic Society, member of the International Health Economics Association (iHEA) and the National Economic Association (USA). Some of the networks he belongs to include the AERC and GDN. PHINDILE BEKWA Email: phindile.bekwa@wits.ac.za Phindile has a BLIS degree from University of the North (now Limpopo University), and is currently enrolled for a BA Hons (InfoSci) at UNISA. She was Librarian at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) from 2005 and joined the Witwatersrand Health Sciences Library (WHSL) in 2011, where she is currently responsible for, inter alia, the management of the digitization project at WHSL. RICHARD BENNETT Email: richard.bennett@springer.com Richard has, for the last three years, been the Vice-President of Sales for Springer with responsibility for all published products in North, West and Eastern European regions. He recently took over the responsibility for the sub-Saharan Africa region with a focus on investment and development of Springer’s presence in this area. Previous to this he was based in Springer’s New York office managing the library business in the Americas after moving from a six-year period with Elsevier, where he held various sales positions. He started his career with Abbott Laboratories as a formulation chemist before moving away from research to develop a career first in B2B publishing then specializing in the STM publishing sector. MATTHEW BUYS Email: mbuys@ebscohost.com Matthew Buys studied for his undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of Witwatersrand. He then moved on to Wits Business School where he completed the Post Graduate Diploma in Management. Whilst studying at Wits Business School, Matthew worked as the Marketing Manager for Technogym. In 2011, an opportunity arose to work at EBSCO Publishing and he is currently the Account Executive for sub-Saharan Africa. Matthew likes to keep up to date with advancements in technology and its application in day-to-day activities. AFRICA JUMANNE BWAMKUU Email: a.bwamkuu@kit.nl Second International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives (ICADLA-2) ICADLA-2 Bio notes - 3 Africa holds an MSc in ICT Entrepreneurship from the Royal Institute of Technology ( KIT), Stockholm, Sweden and a BSc in Computer Science from University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) Tanzania. He currently works as ICT advisor at KIT on the Open Access-Repositories Capacity Strengthening Programme ( OA-RCSP) in Africa, where he is Programme Manager. With his strong views on ICT as a business enabler and a developmental tool, Africa has, for over 10 years, acquired extensive skills and experience in ICT project implementation in the developing world, as a technical person as well as a manager. He has participated in several national and international projects in ICT for development (ICT4D) and information management fields such as ICT for rural development in Tanzania, and ICT for good governance in Tanzanian districts. He is actively involved in the implementation of digital repositories based on open access principles and provides training on setup and management of repositories for intellectual output within academic and research institutions in Africa. He is an active advocate/ promoter of repositories and library management systems based on Open Source Software and has general skills in DSpace, Greenstone, EPrints, ABCD and Koha. JILL COUSINS Jill Cousins is Executive Director of the Europeana Foundation, responsible for the running and management of Europeana.eu, the flagship portal of the European Union that brings together the content of the Archives, Audio visual collections, Libraries and Museums of Europe. She is also Director of The European Library, a vertical content aggregator for national and research libraries in Europe for the researcher. She has many years experience in web publishing and in the commercial publishing world as European Business Development Director of VNU New Media and scholarly publishing with Blackwell Publishing. REPKE DE VRIES Email: repkeamsterdam@gmail.com Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Repke de Vries is a Digital Library consultant and practitioner who started his own company four years ago after years of different positions in social sciences data archiving followed by developing new, web-based services in the library world. Presently he is involved with the International Institute for Social History and large- scale web access to social history collections. He has been with the Southern African Greenstone Support Network, now the African Digital Library Support Network (SAGSN – ADLSN) since 2007, and in 2009 – 2010 as eIFL-FOSS - SAGSN project manager and liaison. Further information at http://www.linkedin.com/in/repke SARAH KADDU Email: sarkaddu@yahoo.com Sarah Kaddu holds a BLIS and a Masters degree and is a PhD candidate at the East African School of Library & Information Science, Makerere University, Uganda. She is the Project Coordinator for the World Digital Library (Uganda), (WDL (U), at the National Library of Uganda and Coordinator, BLIS Program at Uganda Christian University. Her special areas of interest are information storage & retrieval and management. Her professional activities include the position of Secretary General, Uganda Library & Information Association and Deputy Secretary General, Uganda - US Alumni Association. SARAH KAGODA-BATUWA Email: sbatuwa@eachq.org Sarah Kagoda-Batuwa holds an Executive Masters Degree in e-Governance, from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland; has a Masters in Information Science from Second International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives (ICADLA-2) ICADLA-2 Bio notes - 4 the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, U.K; and a BA in Economics and Social Administration from Makerere University, Kampala. She is a Principal Librarian and has been Head of the Information Resource Centre at the East African Community Secretariat, Arusha Tanzania since 1997. She has long experience in information management and e-government and coordinated the development the East African Community Regional e-Government Framework and the Regional Framework on Cyber law. She is currently coordinating projects that include the development of the EAC Regional Framework on e-Immigration, information sharing and networking with EAC partner States, and the EAC Library Digital project. She is an active member of library professional associations. BREWSTER KAHLE A passionate advocate for public Internet access and a successful entrepreneur, Brewster Kahle has spent his career intent on a singular focus: making information free and accessible through digital means. While a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he obtained a B.S. in computer science and engineering, Mr Kahle studied artificial intelligence. Soon after graduating, he helped found the company Thinking Machines, a supercomputer maker. In 1989, Mr Kahle created the Internet’s first publishing system, Wide Area Information Server (WAIS) and established WAIS, Inc. In 1996, he founded the Internet Archive, the largest digital archive in the world. With a staff of nearly 300, and 100 partnering libraries, the organization is working to create an online catalogue of every book ever created. He and his wife, Mary Austin started The Kahle/Austin Foundation, which supports the Internet Archive along with other non-profit organizations with similar goals. In 1996 Mr Kahle also co-founded Alexa Internet, a service that collects data on web browsing behaviour for future analysis, which was sold to Amazon.com in 1999. He is also the founder of Open Content Alliance, a group of organizations contributing to a permanent, publicly accessible archive of digitized texts. Mr Kahle is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He serves on the boards of numerous organizations and is the recipient of many awards, most recently, in 2009, the Free Software Foundation Award and the Paul Evan Peters Award, offered jointly from the Coalition of Networked Information, the Association of Research Libraries, and EDUCAUSE. In 2009 he was named by Utne Reader as one of the “50 Visionaries Changing Your World.” AMOS KUJENGA Email: akujenga@gmail.com Amos Kujenga is a Library Systems Analyst at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST), located in the city of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. He has previously worked as a lecturer and also has IT administration and support experience in the manufacturing industry. Since he joined NUST in 2005 he has been largely involved in the promotion of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and is also the EIFL-FOSS National Coordinator on behalf of the Zimbabwe University Libraries Consortium (ZULC). His area of specialisation is digital library advocacy and development. Besides coordinating national and regional activities in his capacity as the Regional Coordinator for the African Digital Library Support Network (ADLSN) (formerly known as the Southern African Greenstone Support Network (SAGSN)), he has conducted numerous training workshops around Africa both for the Network and also in collaboration with UNESCO. PROFESSOR ANTHONY MAEDER Anthony Maeder is Professor in Health Informatics at the University of Western Sydney, Australia, and was previously Research Director of the CSIRO eHealth Research Centre in Brisbane from 2004. Prior to that, he Second International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives (ICADLA-2) ICADLA-2 Bio notes - 5 followed an academic career as Head of School in Engineering at University of Ballarat and subsequently at Queensland University of Technology Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering. His earlier appointments were at Monash University in the Department of Computer Science, where he undertook his PhD in Software Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia and was the founding President of the Australian Pattern Recognition Society. He is currently chair of the Standards Australia IT-14-12 Telehealth Subcommittee and a member of the IT-14 Health Informatics Committee Australian delegation to ISO/CEN meetings. He was a Board Member of the Health Informatics Society of Australia and their representative on IMIA WG1 (Education) until 2011. His areas of research and teaching expertise include: health informatics, digital image processing/analysis, medical imaging, human visual factors and pattern recognition. PIERRE MALAN After five years experience as support manager in the computer industry, Pierre Malan started his career in the library and information field at SABINET in the beginning of 1992, as Network Manager, and is now Executive Director. Sabinet was formed 27 years ago and evolved from a not-for-profit organization to a private company in which academic institutions have the majority ownership. Sabinet today serves over 1200 clients in more than 50 countries. As Information Technology Manager from 1994, Pierre took over full responsibility for all computerization and networking infrastructure at SABINET, which allowed him to experience the deployment of the internet at academic libraries and witness the changes that came with it. He then became responsible for various further functions at Sabinet including that of systems development and later product development, and currently oversees various departments including Sales, Client Services, Metadata and the African Journal Archive project and serves on the Sabinet Board. CHEDZA MOLEFE Email Address: molefec@africa-union.org or cmolefe2002@yahoo.com Chedza Molefe has a BA (Humanities) and a post Graduate Diploma in Library and Information Studies from the University of Botswana, Gaborone and a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She has been the Archivist for the African Union Commission since January 2007 and prior to that was Chief Librarian at the Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA), from August 1995 to December 2006. RAFAA GHOBRIAL MORGOS Dr Rafaa Ashamallah Ghobrial Morgos has a PhD in Information Technology). She holds the position of Associate Professor in Informatics Research at the Sudan National Centre for Research, Ministry of Science and Technology. She is Director of Documentation and Information and supervises and carries out the activities of national scientific documentation and information. Previously she has worked as part- time lecturer in some universities and as resource person in building capacity and human resource development. She also contributes to the advisory and consultative planning of information committees inside/outside the country. Her current areas of interest and her research programme are related to informatics and digital activities, and she is active in professional societies related to information/science/technology. She has published widely (more than 40 papers) including scientific journal articles, chapters of books, conference proceedings and country reports. Second International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives (ICADLA-2) ICADLA-2 Bio notes - 6 ALEXIO MOTSI Alexio Motsi is the Head of Preservation at the National Archives and Records, Department of Arts and Culture, South Africa, a post which he has held since 2002, and he is currently studying for an MSc in Archives and Records Management with the University of Dundee Scotland. He has worked at the National Library of South Africa (NLSA) as the Conservator from 1993 – 1999 and temporarily as the Acting Programme Manager for Preservation from 1999-2001. Mr Motsi has also served on the DISA committee from 1999 to date. He has been involved in the Presidential Project to preserve the ancient manuscripts of Timbuktu since 2003 and has played a crucial in the development of the National Policy on Digitization of Heritage. GLENDA MYERS Glenda has a doctorate in evidence-based electronic information retrieval and has just completed a second Masters degree in the field of educational technology. She is currently the Witwatersrand Health Sciences Librarian at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and also lectures to medical students in the Faculty of Health Sciences. She has worked at various science, technical and medical (STM) libraries in South Africa since 1974, as well as in the fields of law and Africana during the course of her career. AGNES NAMAGANDA email: agnama@mulib.mak.ac.ug / namaganda.agnes@gmail.com Makerere University Library P.O.Box 7062, Tel. 0772367275/0704367275 Kampala, Uganda Ms Namaganda obtained her Bachelor’s and her Master’s degrees in Library and Information Science from Makerere University and holds the position of Music Librarian/Head of Africana and Special Collections, at the University. She also serves as the Publicity Secretary of the Consortium of Uganda University Libraries (CUUL). BEN WEKALAO NAMANDE Ben Wekalao Namande holds a BA (Languages and Linguistics), Kiswahili (Egerton University) and Master of Education (Library and Information Science) Kenyatta University. He is currently a PhD candidate, Kenyatta University, Department of Library and Information Science. Mr Namande is the Principal Librarian at the Kenya National Archives and Documentation Service. He is also the Ag. Deputy Director of the recently created Department of Government Library Services in the Ministry of National Heritage and Culture. He is a trainer in information related issues in Government Training Institutes and a part-time lecture, Kenyatta University. CATHRINE TAMBUDZAI NENGOMASHA E-mail: cnengomasha@unam.n Address: P .O. Box 99522, Windhoek Telephone: 264-61-2063641; fax: 264-61-2063806 Dr Nengomasha holds degrees from the University of Zimbabwe, an MLS degree from Syracuse University, New York and a PhD in Information Science from the University of Namibia. Since 2008 she has held the position of Lecturer and Head, Department of Second International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives (ICADLA-2) ICADLA-2 Bio notes - 7 Information and Communication Studies, University of Namibia. Previous positions include Principal Archivist at the National Archives of Botswana and Deputy Director at the National Archives of Zimbabwe. Her research and consultancy experience includes designing and setting up a records management system for six divisions of Art Corporation in Zimbabwe in 1995; a records survey and a records management system for Ministry of Health and Social Services in Namibia in 2002; and in 2002 socio-cultural research base-line survey training for UNAM/UNFPA. She has published and presented widely since the 1980s and serves on many committees including, since 2009, the Namibia Memory of the World Committee VICTORIA OKOJIE Email: vicokojie@yahoo.com Registrar/ Chief Executive Officer, Librarians’ Registration Council of Nigeria, 4th Floor, Veterinary Council of Nigeria Building, 8 Zambezi Crescent, Maitama Abuja, Nigeria. Tel.: +234-803-334-8817 Victoria Okojie obtained her Bachelors Degree from the University of Benin, followed by a MLS and an M.Sc (Geog) from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She started her professional career as Librarian II at the University of Ibadan and was appointed Area Director, British Council Ibadan in 1992. In 2002, she jointly established a library and information service consultancy firm with two other colleagues. She was President of the Nigerian Library Association; member of the Advisory Committee of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award. She is a member of the Governing Board, National Library of Nigeria and of the Standing Committee, IFLA Public Libraries Section. She has received many awards, including Fellowship of the Nigerian Library Association. She is currently the Chair, IFLA Africa Section and Secretary, West African Library Association. She has over 25 publications. In 2009, she was appointed the pioneer Registrar/Chief Executive Officer of the Librarians’ Registration Council of Nigeria, a parastatal of the Federal Government of Nigeria. GEOFFREY SALANJE College Librarian, Bunda College of Agriculture, University of Malawi P.O. Box 219, Lilongwe, Malawi Tel: +265 1 277348; fax: +265 1 277251 Email: gsalanje@bunda.unima.mw or salanje@yahoo.com Geoffrey Salanje holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Science from University of Malawi, a Postgraduate Diploma in Library Studies from the University of Botswana, and an MLS from, University of Wales Aberystwyth. He has held the position of College Librarian at Bunda College of Agriculture, University of Malawi since 2000, but has been in the profession since 1986, initially working in University of Malawi College Libraries. He has been a National Coordinator of the African Digital Library Support Network (ADSLN) since 2007, a member of International Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centres (IAMSLIC) since 2004, and a member of IAALD since 2002. He is involved in creating digital library collections for local content, and in training in the same field of interest. He was President of the Malawi Library Association (MALA), 2004 – 2008. Second International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives (ICADLA-2) ICADLA-2 Bio notes - 8 DR DAISY SELEMATSELA Dr Daisy Selematsela has been the Executive Director, Knowledge Management and Evaluation, at the National Research Foundation (NRF) in South Africa since 2008, having served as Manager Information Services and Strategy within the Knowledge Management and Evaluation Directorate from 2006 – 2008. Previous to joining the NRF she was the Senior Director, Client Development, at the University of South Africa (Unisa) Library Services and served as the Skills Development Facilitator (SDF) within the Department of Organisational Development at Unisa for 17 years, contributing towards the UNISA 2015 VISION: Transformation Agenda in her capacity as Deputy Chairperson of the Unisa Institutional Forum. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (Social Science), University of Limpopo, a Postgraduate Diploma in Information Science, a Master of Information Science (M. Inf.) and a D Litt et Phil degree in Information Science from the University of Johannesburg. She also holds a Fellowship of the Higher Education Resource Service for Women in Higher Education (HERS) South Africa: University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business Leadership and Bryn Mawr College: Philadelphia, USA (31st Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education). Daisy has published and has co-ordinated workshops, chaired conference sessions and made numerous local and international presentations on fields such as leadership, transformation and change management, data management, records and document, information and knowledge management. She is actively involved in data management, digital preservation and digitization activities and serves on numerous forums and committees, nationally and internationally. These include Chair: International Council for Science – Committee on Data for Science and Technology (ICSU – CODATA); Task Group on Data Sources for Sustainable Development in SADC; Founding member: International Data Forum; Former Executive member: International Council for Science Union (ICSU SCID) ad hoc Committee on Information and Data; Vice Chair: UN Global Alliance for Enhancing Access to and Application of Scientific Data in Developing Countries (UN GAID e-SDDC);Project Leader: ICSU World Data System for Biodiversity and Human Health; Convener: Network of Data and Information Curation Centre (NeDICC); and Project Leader: Carnegie Corporation of New York – South African National Digitization and Data Preservation Center.) DELIGHT TAWANDA SIGAUKE e-mail: delightsigauke@gmail.com Mr Sigauke holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) Degree in Records & Archives Management from the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) in Second International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives (ICADLA-2) ICADLA-2 Bio notes - 9 Zimbabwe. He also has an Education Certificate in Web Design Technologies. Mr Sigauke has been a Staff Development Fellow in the Department of Records and Archives Management at NUST since 2009. His professional activities include facilitator and presenter. His research interests and activities include a Masters of Philosophy research study at the data collection stage, on Management of electronic mail as electronic records in state universities in Zimbabwe. His broader interests lie in the areas of electronic records management, digitization, digital preservation and access to records and archives. VIGDIS MOE SKARSTEIN Vigdis Moe Skarstein has been the National Librarian of Norway since 2004. She has an academic degree in comparative literature and is also trained as a librarian. Before being appointed National Librarian she was the University Director of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim and is Chair of the Board at the University of Nordland. She has also been Director of Church and Cultural affairs as well as Library Director in the City Administration of Trondheim. Moe Skarstein has chaired and been a member of different governmental committees, such as the Committee on Freedom of Expression and another on which she wrote a report about ownership in media. She has also been Chair of the Norwegian Cultural Council. She has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Conference of European Librarians. JOHN VAN OUDENAREN John Van Oudenaren is Director of the World Digital Library (www.wdl.org), a collaborative initiative of the Library of Congress, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and libraries, archives, museums, and educational institutions from around the world. Previously he served as chief of the European Division at the Library of Congress and was the director of the Library’s Global Gateway international digital library collaborations. Prior to joining the Library in 1996, he was a senior researcher at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, and director of RAND's European office in Delft, the Netherlands. He received his PhD in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his A.B. in Germanic Languages and Literature from Princeton University. Dr Van Oudenaren is the author of several books and numerous articles on European politics, international relations, and U.S. foreign policy. DEBORAH WILSON Deborah Wilson is the Digital Archivist, Special Projects at Historical Papers (HP) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits), South Africa. She is responsible for the digitization of archival collections and the development of the HP research website and digital repository. She also provides project management and technical support for Library digitisation projects and is involved in the development of the Library’s digitization Second International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives (ICADLA-2) ICADLA-2 Bio notes - 10 capacity. She has an MA (Heritage Studies) from Wits, including research into encoded standards, specifically the Encoded Archival Description (EAD), and a Project Management certificate. Her previous experience was as a systems developer, information and business analyst, building production and business intelligence systems in the commercial sector. TEKLEMICHAEL T. WORDOFA Teklemichael T. Wordofa has been a member of staff of Addis Ababa University (AAU) 1994 -2003 and again from May 2011. He coordinates digitization activities and access to digital information within the AAU. He is responsible for developing and managing collaboration between academic and research institutions in Ethiopia to enhance access to digital information under the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERII), a programme initiated by the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP). He also teaches at the School of Information Studies of the AAU. Before joining the AAU again in May 2011, he worked for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), based in Austria for seven years, as project manager for development and maintenance of information resources in the field of nuclear science and technology. MASSIMO ZACCARIA Email: zaccaria@unipv.it Massimo Zaccaria is researcher at the Department of Studi Politici e Sociali, University of Pavia in Italy. He specializes in the history of the Horn of Africa during the colonial period. Dr. Zaccaria’s principal areas of research cover the social and economic history of Eritrea during the colonial period; Islam and Italian colonialism; photography as a source for African studies. He is working on the history of book in Eritrea and is the author of a number of recent publications.