About the Conference
Sub-themes
AfLIA serves as the rallying point and voice of the African Library sector with a core purpose of building the capacity of librarians and allied professionals within the sector in order to enable them equitably open up and drive access to information and knowledge for sustainable development in Africa. Furthermore, AfLIA always seeks to empower African librarians and allied professionals to effectively discern, understand, adapt and respond to the evolving trends and developments in the information and knowledge universe.
AfLIA hereby invites all library and allied institutions professionals to be a part of her 6th Conference and 8th African Library Summit which will hold in Windhoek-Namibia from 18th – 23rd May, 2025.
- Whose Knowledge? Open practices, technology and African scholarship
- Sustainable open knowledge Communities of practice (CoP) in Africa
- Open research infrastructure in Africa
- Intellectual property legislation in Africa
- Open knowledge, AI and the African book sector: present and future
- Open knowledge, acculturation and African ethnic identities
- AI, Open Knowledge and African datasets
- Decolonising educational content for the future of learning in Africa
- UNESCO OER Recommendation and African educational systems
- Looking into the future: AI, Open Knowledge, Technology and quality education in Africa
- Open knowledge through Wikimedia projects: impact in Africa