{"id":187,"date":"2019-12-04T13:40:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T12:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snf-115.vm.cloud.wacren.net\/conference\/?page_id=187"},"modified":"2019-12-13T14:25:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T13:25:55","slug":"mr-omo-oaiya","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/2020.eko-konnect.org.ng\/?page_id=187","title":{"rendered":"Omo Oaiya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Chief Strategy Officer, WACREN<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Topic:<br>The LIBSENSE Initiative<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Omo Oaiya has been offering consultancy and management support to research and academic institutions in Africa for the last twenty years. &nbsp;He is currently the Chief&nbsp;Strategy Officer of the West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN) where he drives strategic growth,&nbsp;developing partnerships to sustain initiatives&nbsp;in its constituent NRENs and facilitating plans for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The creator of the LIBSENSE initiative, he has been working with sister regional African RENs (ASREN and Ubuntunet Alliance),&nbsp;several national RENs, library&nbsp;associations, universities and research communities in Africa&nbsp;to build communities of practice and strengthen local and national services to support open science and&nbsp;research in Africa.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other partners in the LIBSENSE initiative include COAR, EIFL, University of Sheffield, the National Institute of Informatics (Japan), GEANT, and&nbsp;OpenAIRE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Strategy Officer<br \/>\nWACREN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":337,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-187","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2020.eko-konnect.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2020.eko-konnect.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2020.eko-konnect.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2020.eko-konnect.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2020.eko-konnect.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/2020.eko-konnect.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/2020.eko-konnect.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2020.eko-konnect.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2020.eko-konnect.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}