Database as Book

Barbara Love's "Liberatory Consciousness Framework" (2010)

I think it's important to read and study knowledge infrastructures in Kenya in parallel with critical liberation theory to help prompt those of us reaching for new, more anticolonial knowledge infrastructures to imagine what more radical alternatives should replace the existing systems of...Read more

Transcript of Opening Remarks 2024_March_19 PID presentation

00:33.040 --> 00:35.360 Welcome everybody to today's webinar.

00:35.360 --> 00:36.840 My name is Joy Owango.

00:36.840 --> 00:37.960 I'm the Executive Director

00:37.960 --> 00:40.120 of the Training Center in Communication.

00:40.120 --> 00:42.320...Read more

RDS Collective Presentation Nov 28, 2024

This is the presentation slides used during the "Database as Book" workshop held at BIEA Kileleshwa on November 28, 2024 from 8:45 AM to 2:30 PM.Read more

Alternatives Imagine Knowledge as a Public Good

A comparison between the ARK system and the DOI makes their contrasting design logics unmistakably clear. ARK is built on the principle that knowledge should function as a public good—...Read more

Dec 8 - 9, 2025 Program

This is the outline program for the "Extending Knowledge and Publishing Infrastructures in and from Africa" Workshop held at the British Institute of Eastern Africa (BIEA) on December 8 and 9th, 2025.Read more

translation as women (not)

This image, with women at the center of the Database as Book project, puts "the question of gender" into play as part of decolonizing knowledge. My reading here comes in the context of preparing...Read more

2025_April11_Slides ROAC

I used these slides during the 2025 Radical Open Access Conference to speak about the "Database as Book" project.Read more

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