Jimenez-Castellanos Ana, Ramirez-Robles Maximo, Shousha Amany, Bagayoko Cheick Oumar, Perrin Caroline, Zolfo Maria, Cuzin Asa, Roland Alima, Aryeetey Richmond, Maojo Victor
Biomedical Informatics Group, Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial, Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2013;192:1099.
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.
传统上，非洲研究人员在顶级生物医学信息学（BMI）科学期刊和会议中的参与度一直很低。抛开这些数字不谈，一个教育目标应该是提高整体研究水平，从而增加能够开展并发表高质量研究的科学家/作者数量。在这种情况下，我们正在开展各种努力，以扩大位于埃及、加纳、喀麦隆和马里这四个非洲国家的各机构的能力，这是在欧盟委员会资助的“非洲建设”项目框架内进行的。该项目目前正在开展诸如电子学习、信息学工具的合作开发、研究人员流动、各种试点项目等活动。我们的主要目标是创建一个自我维持的BMI开发者南南网络。
