Incentives lacking as policymakers ‘not clued up on how the internet works’
Open access in Africa is taking shape but governments aren’t coming to the party, a South African open science advocate has said.
Ina Smith of the Academy of Science of South Africa, managed a three-year pilot project for the African Open Science Platform, a continental initiative which—when operational—will aim to coordinate the advancement of open science in Africa.
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