ITOCA (Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa) is a capacity building organization aimed at enhancing information and communications technology (ICT) skills for African librarians, information specialists, scientists, researchers and students in Sub-Sahara Africa. Formerly, TEEAL Africa Office, ITOCA was established in February 1999 as a marketing and support office for Cornell University 's Albert R. Mann Library TEEAL (The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library) programme for Africa . Now, ITOCA spearheads programme support for TEEAL, AGORA, HINARI and OARE in the region.

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CTA is now accepting applications for small grants to purchase TEEAL sets. You can download the CTA application form here (en français ici).

Portal for Tertiary Agricultural Education in Africa launched!!!

ITOCA announces the launch of the portal for Tertiary Agricultural Education (TAE) in Africa.. The portal was developed through funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The portal data is available on the public domain. Though still in its infancy, the portal’s online interactive database gives vital data to enable the tracking of human capital development in the tertiary agricultural education sector in Africa.
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Let Your Voice be Heard on Electronic Scientific Journals Access and Use in Africa!

The HINARI, AGORA, and OARE (HINAGOA) Africa User Community Forum kicked off  with enthusiasm in 2007, and saw users from all over the continent expressing interest to join. The aims of the forum are:

  • To network and share information and experiences
  • To keep abreast with developments in the field of information and learn about breakthroughs in e-resource access and management  through the HINAGOA gateways
  • To collectively provide feedback to the HINAGOA programmes and help shape the future of the initiatives
  • To learn and update user skills on electronic resources so that they can effectively benefit from the HINAGOA programmes

HINAGOA programmes were developed to answer the need to improve access to up-to-date scientific scholarly literature in biomedical, health sciences, agriculture, environmental sciences and related fields for scientists, researchers and information managers in low income countries.
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Agora - http://www.aginternetwork.org
TEEAL - http://www.teeal.org    HINARI - http://www.who.int/hinari                  
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