The University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) and Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia) will be hosting a pilot project on the electronic production and publication of theses and dissertations. This is the essence of a contract recently signed between UNESCO and the University of the Witwatersrand.

The project is funded by UNESCO within the framework of its efforts to enhance the production, access and archiving of scientific information, particularly theses and dissertations, by using the opportunities offered by ICT. It is based on the principles, guidelines, workflow models and best practices described in the "UNESCO Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Guide" (Paris: UNESCO, 2020). The project, in which the Association of African Universities is also involved, aims at empowering the two participant universities to establish sustainable ETD programmes and at sensitizing other universities in the region to the importance of such programmes. In a longer-term perspective, it aims at improving graduate education by allowing students to produce electronic documents, use digital libraries, and understand issues in publishing.

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