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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 Enhancing research capacity of African institutions through social networking(Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2013-08) Jimenez-Castellanos, A.; Ramirez-Robles, M.; Shousha, A.; Bagayoko, C.O.; Perrin, C.; Zolfo, M.; Cuzin, A.; Roland, A.; Aryeetey, R.; Maojo, V.Traditionally, participation of African researchers in top Biomedical Informatics (BMI) scientific journals and conferences has been scarce. Looking beyond these numbers, an educational goal should be to improve overall research and, therefore, to increase the number of scientists/authors able to produce and publish high quality research. In such scenario, we are carrying out various efforts to expand the capacities of various institutions located at four African countries-Egypt, Ghana, Cameroon and Mali-in the framework of a European Commission-funded project, AFRICA BUILD. This project is currently carrying out activities such as e-learning, collaborative development of informatics tools, mobility of researchers, various pilot projects, and others. Our main objective is to create a self-sustained South-South network of BMI developers. © 2013 IMIA and IOS Press.