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The Africa Open Science Platform aims to position African scientists at the cutting edge of data intensive science by stimulating interactivity and creating opportunity through the development of efficiencies of scale, building critical mass through shared capacities, and amplifying impact through a commonality of purpose and voice.

AREN seeks to bridge the gaps in promoting best research practices in Africa through strategic collaborative efforts by researchers, institutions and various stakeholders across the continent and globally.

DIPLOMICS is a research infrastructure programme funded by the South African Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI). One of DIPLOMICS’ primary objectives is to support training for students and researchers in Omics, defined as the Sciences of Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics, and Bioinformatics.

The Data Science for Health Discovery and Innovation in Africa (DS-I Africa) Initiative aims to leverage data science technologies to transform biomedical and behavioral research and develop solutions that would lead to improved health for individuals and populations.

LIBSENSE (Library Support for Embedded NREN Services and E-infrastructure) is an initiative that focuses on fostering collaboration between libraries, national research and education networks (NRENs), and other stakeholders to enhance access to research and education resources, particularly in regions like Africa.

A forum for research software and infrastructure (compute/data) developers on the African continent that aims to share skills and opportunities and improve equity, diversity and inclusion within the global research software and systems engineering (RSSE) space.

The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) is a national centre supported by the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI). SADiLaR has an enabling function, with a focus on all official languages of South Africa, supporting research and development in the domains of language technologies and language-related studies in the humanities and social sciences.

Talarify supports digital innovation in research and develop impactful capacity and community development interventions. Open Science, reproducibility and interdisciplinarity are the main focus areas.