{"id":192,"date":"2010-10-11T10:25:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T14:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/grants\/?p=192"},"modified":"2010-10-28T08:54:54","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T12:54:54","slug":"higher-education-and-libraries-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/grants\/2010\/10\/11\/higher-education-and-libraries-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnegie: Higher Education and Libraries in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CFP: <a href=\"http:\/\/carnegie.org\/programs\/higher-education-and-libraries-in-africa\/\">http:\/\/carnegie.org\/programs\/higher-education-and-libraries-in-africa\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The main objectives of Carnegie Corporation\u2019s work in Africa are to  enhance the capacities of educators, researchers and academic leaders in  selected countries; to improve the use of information and communication  technologies in teaching, research and management and to create public  and university libraries to deepen academic research and public access  to information and knowledge. These goals represent integrated pathways  toward strengthening the next generation of academics and university  leaders in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Our funding partners in this earlier work have been members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foundation-partnership.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Partnership for Higher Education in Africa<\/a> (PHEA) and other private donors, European government agencies and U.S.  Government initiatives. The Partnership coordinating office in New York  is closed as of January 2010, but collaborative grantmaking in some  areas of common interest will continue.<\/p>\n<p>Our future projects will stem from strategic grantmaking in the following areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carnegie.org\/programs\/higher-education-and-libraries-in-africa\/investing-in-africas-next-generation-of-academics-and-university-leaders\/\">Investing in Africa\u2019s Next Generation of Academics and University Leaders<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carnegie.org\/programs\/higher-education-and-libraries-in-africa\/icts-for-teaching-learning-and-research\/\">Information and Communication Technologies for Teaching, Learning and Research<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carnegie.org\/programs\/higher-education-and-libraries-in-africa\/libraries-and-information\/\">Libraries and Information<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CFP: http:\/\/carnegie.org\/programs\/higher-education-and-libraries-in-africa\/ The main objectives of Carnegie Corporation\u2019s work in Africa are to enhance the capacities of educators, researchers and academic leaders in selected countries; to improve the use of information and communication technologies in teaching, research and management and to create public and university libraries to deepen academic research and public access to information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[29],"tags":[123,208],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extramural-grants","tag-foundation","tag-global-engagement"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pY2Uk-36","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}