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Item AFRICA BUILD portal: Developing a social network of African health researchers and educators(2013 IST-Africa Conference and Exhibition, IST-Africa 2013, 2013-05) Ramirez-Robles, M.; Jimenez-Castellanos, A.; Khalifa, A.; Anne, A.; Kamga, Y.N.; Afagbedzi, S.; Maojo, V.The AFRICA BUILD project aims to develop and support health care, education and research centres in Africa through Information and Communication Technologies. One of the main outputs of the project is a collaborative platform which integrates a myriad of research and learning resources. This article presents the first prototype of this platform: the AFRICA BUILD Portal (ABP 1.0). The ABP is a Web 2.0 platform which facilitates the access, in a collaborative manner, to these resources. Through a usable web interface, the ABP has been designed to avoid, as much as possible, the connectivity problems of African institutions. In this paper, we suggest that the access to complex systems does not imply slow response rates, and that their development model guides the project to a natural technological transfer, adaptation and user acceptance. Finally, this platform aims to motivate research attitudes during the learning process and stimulate user's collaborations. © 2013 The Authors.Item Social Network and Health Researchers and Professionals Mobility in Africa: Lessons Learned from Africa BUILD Project(Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2015-10) Traore, S.T.; Anne, A.; Khalifa, A.; Bosomprah, S.; Caroline, F.; Cuzin-Kihl, A.K.; Ingelbeen, B.; Ramirez-Robles, M.; Sangare, M.; Niang, M.; Bagayoko, C.O.Objective: Promote mobility between South-South and South-North for improving level of researchers, staff and students through a platform. Methods: The methodology is based a filling of a questionnaire about offer or demand. Material is composed a computer connected Internet. Result: we registered about 203 demands and 31 offers from partners.43 mobilities were executed completely. Conclusion: The results indicate a real need of mobility for researchers and health professionals in Africa. The important number of mobility demands made by external researchers and professionals (from outside the AFRICA BUILD Consortium) may be constrained by the difficulty to find adequate funding. © 2015 IMIA and IOS Press.