Little Scientific Knowledge Originates from Africa | Lighton Phiri | Talks | Data Mining Seminars
Lighton Phiri gave a talk titled "Towards Increased Online Visibility of Research Output in Zambia: Challenges, Tools and Effective Approaches" on May 29, 2024, at 17H30 GMT+2.
This talk is part of a series of seminars organised as part of the "CSC 5741: Data Mining and Warehousing" [1] postgraduate course in the Department of Computer Science [2] at The University of Zambia [3]
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Title
Towards Increased Visibility of Research Output in Zambia
Speaker
Lighton Phiri [1, 2]
Abstract
The online visibility of research output in Zambia is low. The DataLab research group has been conducting a series of studies aimed at understanding the factors linked to low visibility of research and, additionally, devising potentially effective solutions to address this issue. We shall briefly highlight studies and projects conducted, which are aimed at increasing the online visibility of research in Zambia.
Biography
Lighton [1, 2] is a Lecturer and Researcher at The University of Zambia. His research interests are in the broad fields of Data Mining, Digital Libraries and Technology-Enhanced Learning.
[1] https://lightonphiri.org
[2] https://datalab.unza.zm/people/lighto...