SN 4 EP 4: Knowledge management and the future of african higher education with Dr. Felicia Kuagbedzi (AAU)

In this episode, host Joy Owango speaks with Dr. Felicia Kuagbedzi, the Acting Coordinator for ICT Communications and Knowledge Management at the Association of African Universities (AAU).They discuss the AAU’s pivotal role in reforming higher education in Africa through digital transformation, knowledge management, and capacity building. Dr. Felicia highlights how the AAU is bridging the gap between research and policy, fostering continental collaboration, and building the digital infrastructure necessary for African universities to thrive in the 21st century.

Here are the key things to look out for:

1. Digital Inclusion & Universal Acceptance (UA): Dr. Felicia explains the “Universal Acceptance” initiative, which ensures that digital systems (like emails and websites) can handle local African languages and scripts (e.g., Amharic, Arabic, Swahili), preventing digital exclusion.
2. Research Governance & The SGCI: Learn about the AAU’s work with the Science Granting Councils Initiative (SGCI) to digitize grant management systems, ensuring transparency, efficiency, and data-driven funding decisions across 10 African countries.
3. Breaking Silos in Higher Education: The conversation addresses the challenges of “silos” in African academia—such as the lack of credential recognition across borders—and solutions like the Addis Convention and the African Research Innovation and Development (AFRID) network.
4. The “AFRID” Platform: A key resource mentioned is the AFRID platform (African Research Innovation and Development), a digital hub connecting over 6 million research publications and promoting communities of practice.

EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

Intro:

Welcome to Mazungumzo – African scholarly conversations, a podcast that highlights the perspectives of various stakeholders in academia, and research fields across Africa through open dialogue on mazungumzo on scholarly communication in Africa.

Joy Owango:

Welcome to Mazungumzo – African Scholarly Conversations, where we are joined by an expansive list of African policymakers, science communication specialists, innovators, and tertiary institution leads who contribute to this realm of science communication.

I’m your host, Joy Owango, the Executive Director of the Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa), a capacity-building trust based at the University of Nairobi, Chiromo Campus, Kenya.

Today, I’m excited to be joined by Dr. Felicia Kuagbedzi whose work is vital to the reform of higher education and scholarly communication in Africa. Dr. Felicia is the Acting Coordinator for ICT communications and knowledge management at the Association of African Universities, AAU. Since 1967 the AAU has been the leading continental organization dedicated to fostering cooperation, building capacity and influencing higher education policy among universities, particularly African universities.

And in her capacity, she oversees programs to improve digital innovation, create effective communication and increase knowledge sharing platforms in African universities. Aside from building institutional capacity, she has been a major supporter of open science and scholarly communication, trying to guarantee that African research is accessible, visible and effective on a worldwide scale.

Felicia, it’s truly a pleasure to have you on Mazungumzo, welcome.

 Dr. Felicia Kuagbedzi

Thank you so much for having me. It’s also my real pleasure to be here and to share in this important conversation.

Joy Owango

Yeah, okay, so thank you for joining us all the way from Ghana, and as we begin, could you share your personal journey into higher education and knowledge management, and what early influences led you into this field?

Dr. Felicia Kuagbedzi

Okay, that’s a good one, yeah. In terms of my personal journey, I would say that my journey into this field hasn’t really been straightforward. It hasn’t been a straight line. But looking back, I think I can see a clear thread where it’s all well knitted together.

I actually began my career in the corporate world in communications for the mining industry, and then I moved into the development sector, where I was the country communication specialist for Plan International Ghana. But even before those, I would say I had always been fascinated by the transformative power of higher education. I mean, I saw how a university experience didn’t just give people a degree, but it fundamentally reshaped how they see the world, how they thought and the various opportunities available to people who had gone through higher education.

And this really amazed me. I do remember during my stay on the University of Ghana campus where I schooled, you know, where I undertook some of my studies, just knowing deep down that this was an ecosystem that I belong to and that I wanted to contribute to. So when I joined the Association of African Universities a decade ago, it really felt like a homecoming, and my work here at AAU, also for the research for my PhD, really allowed me to continue to engage deeply with several universities across the continent, solidifying my passion for this space.

As far as knowledge management is concerned, I would say it turned out to be a very natural fit, given my background in communications, which involves key aspects of first identifying what is newsworthy, identifying stories, creating meaningful content, and then ensuring it reaches the right people. So that’s the heart of knowledge management, really creating, storing and sharing knowledge to make it accessible in an actionable manner.

Maybe let me also throw in the fact that my first degree was actually in Information Studies, library and archival studies. Again, my background in ICT, I would say, has also been critical to helping me thrive in this space, because you need to apply and leverage various knowledge management tools in the process of knowledge management.

Perhaps before we go on, let me acknowledge some key individuals who had contributed to solidifying my contribution in this space, because all of that didn’t happen in a vacuum. I would say I was profoundly influenced by my incredible mentors, such as my late boss, Madam Rahmatoulaye, and then my colleague, Mr. Abednego Corletey, who used to work here at the AAU, and who was handling our ICT and aspect of our knowledge management function.

Yes, they really helped in terms of demonstrating how strategic knowledge management, you know, can be in amplifying the impact of higher education. Yes, across Africa. Also, perhaps I would say I’ve been blessed through the incredible support of the Secretary General and the management team, you know, generally, for the confidence in tasking me to act and to oversee these critical roles here at the AAU.

Joy Owango:

Fantastic. So as the coordinator for ICT communications and knowledge management at AAU, what does your role entail on a day-to-day basis, and how does it connect to the broader mission of the Association of African Universities?

 Dr. Felicia Kuagbedzi:

 Okay, so this role really is a fusion of three critical areas, with the focus on the technology which powers our work, and then also, so that’s for the IT component, and then the stories we tell about our work related to the communications, as well as the knowledge that is the very product of the aspect of the knowledge management.

And therefore, on any given day, I’m essentially working with a strong team and knowledgeable team at the Directorate of ICT communications and Knowledge Management here at the AAU to make sure that these three pillars are working in perfect harmony as we serve African higher education.

So maybe let’s walk through each of these three pillars. So I have been responsible for overseeing our ICT infrastructure, and this relates to everything from our cloud systems, from cyber security to digital platforms that connect, you know, over 450 member universities across the continent. It’s also just not about keeping the lights on, but it’s really been about leading digital transformation, working closely with the masters in the game, I would say, the IT team. We have been looking at how to use technology, be it virtual collaboration tools or data systems, to help African universities collaborate on research, to share courses and to build on their institutional capacity in this digital world.

So this has led us to, for instance, the rollout of a MOOC program focused on digital skills, among others. Again, in terms of the communication angle, focused on amplifying the African University voice. My team and I have been responsible for telling the powerful stories emerging from our member universities, and then also from the secretariat. What exactly are we doing? What are the key areas that we are focusing on, based on our strategic plan and the various key initiatives that we are implementing? We are responsible for managing our digital presence. This is from our website, our social media to our unique asset, which is the AAU television station.

So stakeholders out there, I just want to remind you, we have the AAU television station, which you can leverage in terms of promoting the various activities happening at your own institutional level. We also ensure that research innovation and successes of African academia are visible on the global stage, and we manage our high-level events, media relations among others. So that is for the communication aspect. And then we are also in charge of curating and connecting knowledge in terms of the knowledge management aspect. So perhaps most fundamentally, we are in the business of knowledge management. Africa Universities, as we know, are powerhouses of research and insight, and my role has been to ensure that knowledge doesn’t just sit on the shelves. So we work with partners with program implementing units to capture it, to package it into accessible formats, like policy briefs, research reports. And we’ve also focused on creating platforms, both digital and through our network. Some of these are even just knowledge exchanges, you know, through various ways, webinars, through various ways to ensure that the knowledge that we have is shared, is discussed and is applied to solve African challenges.

So it’s a three-pronged role, and now maybe to focus on how it’s advancing AAU’s broader mission, I would say that connects directly. Our mission as AAU really is to raise the quality and impact of higher education in Africa. If universities are working in isolation… So the ICT component of our work directly is connecting universities, breaking down those geographical and logistical barriers and making sure we are working as a team. Our communications work is celebrating and advocating for them, including compelling narratives you know, that would attract investment and that would promote partnerships. And then our knowledge management, which is leveraging and multiplying intellectual output, ensuring that the breakthrough at one university somewhere in North Africa or somewhere in East Africa can really inform policy and practice across the continent.

Joy Owango:

So the AAU has been a continental voice for higher education since 1967. From your perspective, how is the association helping African universities adapt to today’s rapidly changing digital and knowledge-driven landscape?

Dr. Felicia Kuagbedzi:

So that’s right, for over five decades… we are inching towards our anniversary.

Joy Owango:

 Congratulations and thanks.

Dr. Felicia Kuagbedzi:

 And by the way, 12th of November is when we celebrate Africa University’s day, which is the birthday. So we are inviting all stakeholders to join us.

So for over five decades, the AAU voice has really been constant, you know, in terms of being the advocate, being the voice for higher education. But today, we would say that beyond just advocacy, we are actively building the digital and knowledge infrastructure, you know, for the 21st Century. From where I sit, I can say that I see us helping universities adapt in key fundamental ways, by building capacity, by fostering connection and by creating context.

So first of all, we are catalyzing the digital capacity building. The pace of change we can see has actually been overwhelming. It’s very quick, and therefore we try to intervene directly by providing key training resources, key frameworks, key platforms to demystify digital transformation and to make sure we are all moving together on board as one huge space. It shouldn’t be abstract. These are things that we are all engaged in directly.

Secondly, AAU serves as the conduit for Continental connection and collaboration. This has really been the quick way within which we’re able to rally all higher education stakeholders together. So we try to ensure that key collaborations exist across the continent, and then also even between our stakeholders on the continent and other institutions. Let me for instance, cite our engagement with CAHE, which is the China Association of Higher Education, for instance, where we are promoting 50-50 partnerships, making sure we are linking about 50 universities across the continent to another set of 50 universities in China, for instance. So we are really promoting the connection and the collaboration to make sure that we are connecting institutions.

We manage our digital platforms and networks that allow for collaboration on research. At the recent General Conference, for instance, we launched AFRID, which is the African Research Innovation and Development network. And this is a comprehensive digital platform which profiles information on, for now over 6 million research publications, and it’s also promoting communities of practice focused on key research areas. So the idea is really to ensure that if we need information on publications that are being produced by African researchers, there should be that platform where you can go and be able to find that information, but also beyond that, creating networks where stakeholders in a particular research area can really work together and they have that support to publish together, to undertake various initiatives together, write for funding together.

Maybe a third one, to focus on our role as a curator of contextualized knowledge. A core part of our work is really identifying, is packaging, is disseminating the knowledge that matters most, and we take groundbreaking research from our member universities and turn it into digestible policy briefs for government, as well as into various formats to ensure that higher education is not operating in a silo, but it is working and it is communicating with stakeholders. This is Industry, this is government, and we are really engaging, you know, various stakeholders to ensure that we are transforming Africa together.

Joy Owango:

 Yeah. So ICT has become central to research, teaching and collaboration. What are some of the most impactful ICT initiatives AAU is championing to strengthen universities across the continent?

Dr. Felicia Kuagbedzi:

 Okay, absolutely, as you rightly said, ICT is no longer a support function. It’s becoming fundamental, the bedrock of modern academia. So at the AAU, we really are moving beyond just discussing this reality to actively deploying initiatives that make tangible differences. So maybe I’ll just run through a few of those initiatives we are currently implementing, groundbreaking projects.

Let me put it that way with ICANN, which is focused on Universal Acceptance. So it’s called the Universal Acceptance initiative. And I’d say this is a perfect example of a behind the scene technical issue, but which has a real massive reward impact. So right now, there are many online systems, from email platforms to learning management systems that aren’t really fully equipped to handle website addresses and emails in other characters, like those in Amharic, in Arabic or Swahili. So just imagine a brilliant researcher in Senegal or somewhere who is unable to create a professional email address in their own native language. Yes, a university in Egypt that is struggling to register its domain name in… you know, this would create a digital exclusion barrier.

So through the UA initiative, we are working directly with African universities to ensure that their IT systems and online services are UA ready. This is about linguistics. It’s about cultural inclusion in the digital space. We want to be sure that emails that are in other characters can still come in. It shouldn’t only be in some particular [script], but we really want to diversify it as much as possible. So it’s a foundational step for a truly decolonized digital future. As part of this initiative, as well, we are introducing Universal Acceptance into computer science curricula for undergraduate students to build local expertise and to ensure sustainability. So three institutions are set to pilot this integration, with some having successfully mapped their existing computer science curriculum to the UA curriculum.

Then secondly, aside from that initiative we have with ICANN, maybe let me talk about deep investment in human capacity through our targeted capacity building for ICT directors. So AAU has been rolling out an initiative where we are strengthening and, you know, creating the knowledge for ICT directors to share amongst each other. I would say that technology is only as good as the people managing it. And because of this, we do run regular workshops and create forums that bring together the ICT leaders from across our membership and across the general higher education space, these are normally practical sessions. They are hands-on sessions, and they focus on critical areas like cyber security, like cloud migration, like developing institutional digital strategies, among others.

Recently, we collaborated with the Forum for Incident Response and Security Teams called FIRST to train ICT directors, and this focused on foundational and advanced aspects of building institutions’ cyber security responses. Specifically, Computer Security Incident Response Teams so they can respond to issues that may come up.

A third one, maybe in the final one, in the interest of time, I would like to highlight our contribution in the space as far as our support to the national research and educational networks, which we call NRENs. So AAU really supported the creation of some of these NRENs, and we continue to collaborate and to work with them. And perhaps maybe also to refer to DATAD, which is a database for theses and dissertations that AAU has been in charge of, which puts together a platform where we can then, you know, have in one place the various research and the various theses and dissertations that are being produced from African universities.

Joy Owango:

 So AAU has been actively involved in research management initiatives. Now that you’ve told us about the ICT activities, it goes without saying, you’ve been involved in research management. And with these initiatives, it includes its role with the Science Granting Councils Initiative, the SGCI. Could you share how AAU’s engagement in such programs is shaping research governance and strengthening institutional capacity across Africa and African governments as well?

Dr. Felicia Kuagbedzi:

 Okay, so absolutely under the Science Granting Councils Initiative… because that’s what you referenced. SGCI is a collaborative technical agency under the SGC initiative, and it’s really a powerful example of how the association has been working with others within the consortium to move from theory to practice. As far as strengthening the research ecosystem is concerned.

So AAU runs a number of projects, I think about three, under the SGC initiative, and on this project, we’ve been focusing on several key pillars that together, I would say, are reshaping research governance and institutional capacity across the continent. So first, we are driving a crucial digital transformation. We did a survey, or through our engagement, we realized that for years, most of the science granting councils adopt a manual paper-based grant system and this contributed to a number of delays and a number of issues. So we have been issues as far as transparency and others are concerned.

So we have been supporting the continental rollout of a bespoke digital grant management system, and today we would say that 10 Science Granting Councils, so this is from 10 countries, are using the tailored, Anglophone and Francophone versions of this system. And that comes to impact, I would say, has been tangible. We are seeing drastically reduced turnaround times, automated audit trails for total transparency, and most importantly, Councils can also now make strategic, data-driven funding decisions, because everything is automated in the system.

Yes, but I will say that efficient systems alone haven’t been enough. You also would really need a culture of excellence, and therefore that, I would say, has been our second pillar. Through frameworks like the Research Quality Plus (RQ+), which falls under one of the initiatives, we’ve trained 17 councils from 17 countries to design research competitions that intrinsically reward both quality and ethical integration. So we’ve established a new benchmarking tool to help councils to continuously raise the bar. And this is really about embedding excellence into the very fabric, into the very DNA of how research is selected and how research is funded.

The third pillar is about financial integrity. You can’t talk about research without talking about a finance, financing of that research and how that financing process takes place. So research investment, we believe, must be managed accountably, and therefore, through a Good Financial Grant Practice component, which we are implementing with partners, we’ve been able to guide eight councils through rigorous self-assessment, with desk reviews completed, and this clearly puts them on the path towards international certification. And once you are certified, it means that you have proven to financial development partners that you are trustworthy and have these good practices in place, and you have these robust systems, you know, at your institutional level.

Then finally, we have a final component, which I would say is helping us to bridge the critical gap between research and real-world impact. So our work with other partners empowers councils in areas like Intellectual Property Management, technology transfer, fostering private sector engagement. This has been how we have systematically strengthened Africa’s innovation economy under that component of the project as well. We have a platform called TechnoMart, where we are trying to ensure that research infrastructure information is available in one source. So that if a researcher needs any form of infrastructure and is not sure where to find it, either in their country or across the continent, there should be some platform where they go, they log on and search for that.

So under the SGCI, I would say AAU has achieved a lot as far as modernizing infrastructure, as far as instilling a culture of excellence, ensuring financial accountability, and all of these components are critical to ensuring a more robust research ecosystem in Africa.

Joy Owango:

 Yeah. Okay, so one of AAU strengths is its Pan African network. Where do you see knowledge being shared effectively across borders? Where do you see where silos still remain? And I mean, I’m sure it’s not happening… it’s not happening seamlessly, and what mechanisms could help build more seamless regional neurological systems?

Dr. Felicia Kuagbedzi:

 Okay, so in terms of where we see some good shining examples, right? As far as knowledge sharing is concerned, I would like to talk about areas such as post-graduate training and research. Of course, there’s still a lot, a lot more that we need to do in those areas, but I think it’s one area that we can see over the course of the period there’s been some great improvement, and we can attribute this to some critical initiatives, such as, for instance, the Africa Centers of Excellence (ACE) initiative by the World Bank, and which has AAU, as you know, the Regional Facilitation Unit, as well as the Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA).

So under that, it’s really helped to create hubs in specific universities focused on specific things, for instance, agriculture, health, and it’s been able to help attract and to also train top tier masters and PhD students from across the continent. So it has really helped in terms of knowledge sharing, in terms of making sure that there’s been that cross-border fertilization, because it’s a regional program focused on training across the region.

I would also perhaps like to center stage the AAU’s AFRID initiative at this point. Its overall purpose, as I did mention, is really to create that platform to promote more collaboration, more sharing among the research community, and also, as well as being the software where you can really know what kinds of research is being conducted across the continent. So AFRID really plays a very key key here. And then we can also talk about advancements, as far as some digital repositories and open access platforms are concerned. For instance, we can mention APOSA and others, as far as mobility and perhaps exchange programs is concerned as well. We can say that there’s been some form of improvement as far as intra-Africa academic mobility schemes are concerned. And perhaps maybe, let me also refer to ACE, because under ACE, mobility was promoted across the continent, trying to move from one country to the other, to a center of excellence hosted in another, so we can learn and improve around the particular theme.

Where silos and challenges remain: the issue of credentials recognition and quality assurance is one that we are still working to improve, or is an area where we see silos. There is a huge bottleneck in this area. I really should be able to move from Burundi to Nigeria and my certificates, or, you know, my credentials, should be recognizable in those other countries.

Joy Owango:

 Yes, yes, yeah, this is an area that we really need to improve.

Dr. Felicia Kuagbedzi:

 We can also talk about infrastructure and research resources or even infrastructure silos. There are times where perhaps we need to work together as a continent, but you would find that different institutions are having different resources, right? Is when we can actually work together, if we did put all of that together.

In other areas, I think there’s also been the challenge of political and bureaucratic silos. You would agree with me, sometimes it’s more difficult to move on the continent than moving from Africa to elsewhere. How can we engage policy makers so that obtaining visas for academic travel within the continent is a bit much more easier? We can also talk about national funding priorities in this space, funding for research grants always remains a challenge. The percentages of GDP being assigned to research is really nothing to write home about. It’s very little.

So those, those are key areas where we have challenges. There’s also the linguistic silos. How are we collaborating more closely as Anglophones with Lusophones, and you know as Francophones with Anglophones? There’s limited translation of key research, a lack of collaborative programs. So the silos equally exist along those lines, and we need to do more to strengthen the space.

You did also ask a question related to mechanisms to build more seamless regional knowledge… what we need to do?

Joy Owango:

 Yeah, yeah, what we need to do.

Dr. Felicia Kuagbedzi:

 So we can talk about policy harmonization and systems level mechanisms. So there’s the Addis Convention. How many of us in this space, you know, even really know about it? How many of us are really working towards making sure that the convention on recognition of qualifications in higher education is really on the table and really guiding us?

I would also say that we need to strengthen regional quality assurance bodies. As AAU, we are working with our partners on the African Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance (ASG-QA) to really facilitate mutual recognition agreements between National Quality Assurance agencies.

Perhaps we also need to strengthen the digital and infrastructure space. As we said, ICT is really central to everything that we are doing, as far as research, as far as teaching and learning is concerned, is an area that would advocate for heavy investment and that then equally, would really promote that platforms, such as AFRID, is really prioritized, and we are all fully on board. We all join the various networks, and we move together. This is for the continent. Is for all of us, yes, as African higher education partners. So we really all need to fully get on board.

Joy Owango:

 Yeah. So beyond digital…

Dr. Felicia Kuagbedzi:

 When I was identifying the challenges I did, I think I did speak about culture and linguistic barriers. So how do we overcome that? How do we even ensure that key publications that come out, you know, available in various languages. So perhaps we need to prioritize funding for translations and synthesizing key materials. So would request that they support projects that help to translate key textbooks, research findings, into other languages, English, French, Portuguese and Arabic, as well as even other indigenous languages.

Joy Owango:

 Yes, yeah, yeah, because, I mean, the continent is quite diverse, and as much as we have the integration languages, they are still the integration languages. They have tried to break one part of the silo where you bring in all these thousands of languages into regional languages that unite those respective languages, Eastern Africa with Swahili, Western Africa with the Francophone and a bit of Anglophone and Northern Africa with Arabic and, of course, the Lusophone belt. But even despite that integration, there’s still an element of silos when it comes to research and even work being produced from those in those languages. So yes, the support in making sure that it’s much more accessible would be very vital in making us have greater reach, on the kind of work we are doing.

And as we wind up, beyond digital infrastructure, there is the human element: capacity building, training and mentoring. How is the AAU working to prepare the next generation, particularly women and youth, for leadership in research, open science and scholarly communication?

Dr. Felicia Kuagbedzi:

 So for us as the AAU, I mean building human capacity, or strengthening the capacity… I think we tend to believe that there is a lot of capacity resident within our universities. So what we try to do is to strengthen it. It is to sharpen it, is to create the platform for exchanges, because we believe in cross fertilization of strength of ideas, of really sharing what has worked elsewhere, and how you can then contextualize it. So we do prioritize this, not as a side activity, but as a core mission and as a core part of what we do, and aligned with that, we do make deliberate effort and employ a multi-layered approach to nurturing the next generation of African research leaders.

So first, I would say, we are doing this through building a strong foundation, through widespread training. We organize trainings for specific communities of practices, be it for, I mean, both for academics and non-academics within the university environment, administrators, that’s another important group that mostly we tend to forget. So AAU organizes workshops for these various groups, be it researchers, be it ICT directors, be it communication and public relation officers, various groups, and, you know, on various thematic areas, where we then try to help strengthen their capacity.

And yes, so that is one. We do prioritize that, but we also know that training isn’t enough. Sometimes it really helps to deeply focus on mentorship and creating the opportunity for people, the youth and women and the various groups that you did mention, to actually have a space where they can practicalize whatever they may have learned through the training programs.

So we have a program, for instance, let me talk about the mentorship program, which we are running with East Africa… sorry, Europe regional office. And we are implementing a mentorship program, which is a writing activity, trying to work with women so they can publish, guiding them through a process. And this has taken the structure of not necessarily having a one-week training, and it ends there. It’s an extended period of mentorship with various activities, activities related to writing activities, related to presentation activities, where we have matched someone at the peak of their career with an early career researcher. So mentorship is another way.

And then ultimately, we also leverage our role as advocates, you know, to really get our member universities to prioritize capacity building for their own staff, because for this to be sustainable, it really must be rooted in institutions themselves. So aside from the capacity that AAU does from time to time, we do advocate and engage our member universities to look for other avenues for building the capacity of their staff, because, like I said, through mentorship, linking key early career researchers with those that are at the peak of their career.

I think another group related to students, we do work closely with bodies like the All-Africa Students Union, ensuring that their voices are also directly shaping programs and priorities. Because, you know, the students are the future, the next generation who would be taking up some of all these roles, so we move closely with them.

Joy Owango:

 Yes. Oh, so thank you so much. This has been quite interesting, learning more about what the AAU is doing and your contribution to higher education excellence in Africa, and also advocating for policies that can aid in improving the quality of the higher education systems. Thank you so much, Dr. Felicia, this has been a really good conversation, and thank you so much for your time.

Dr. Felicia Kuagbedzi:

 Thank you so much. It’s been a pleasure being here. I would really like to end by engaging and encouraging all our stakeholders to visit our AfRID platform, as I mentioned, it really helps in terms of helping institutions to be more visible, in terms of creating the platform for collaboration with international partners, in terms of focusing research for development, and also as far as capacity building is concerned. So we really want to end by encouraging all of us to explore this. It’s accessible at https://afrid.aau.org/

Joy Owango

Thank you so much. Goodbye for now, bye.

Dr. Felicia Kuagbedzi

Okay, alright, sure. Goodbye. Thank you so much.

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