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| Grant Agreement | GA #654237 |
| Call Identifier | H2020-INFRASUPP- 2014-2 |
| Funding Scheme | Coordination and Support Action (CSA) |
| Project Durataion | 24 months (May 2015 - April 2017) |
| Project Duration | 24 months (May 2015 - April 2017) |
| Project Officer | Enrique Gomes, Unit C.1, DG CONNECT <br> European Commission |
| Co-Ordinator | Dr. Simon J. E. Taylor, Brunel University London (UK) - BRUNEL |
| Consortium Partners | Brunel University London (UK) - BRUNEL <br> The UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education (Malawi) - UBUNTUNET <br> University of Catania (Italy) - UNICT <br> The West and Central African Research and Education Network (Ghana) - WACREN <br> The Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) - KTH <br> The Dar es Salam Institute of Technology (Tanzania) - DIT <br> Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) - KI <br> CSIR/Meraka Institute (South Africa) - CSIR |
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| Discussion Topics | 652 |
| Posts | 3.1k |{#tab:1}

Table: Significant metrics of the African e-Infrasructure Discussion Forum {#tbl:metrics}
Table: Significant metrics of the African e-Infrastructure Discussion Forum {#tbl:metrics}

## Users

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## Discussion site for online learning

The Sci-GaIA winter school was run using the OpenEdX instance for the courseware.
EdX itself, as well as a few other OpenedX instances, use an internal wiki-like discussion component to allow students within the same course to discuss the course material and solutions with each other.
EdX itself, as well as a few other OpenEdX instances, use an internal wiki-like discussion component to allow students within the same course to discuss the course material and solutions with each other.
This makes sense within an environment where everything is vertically integrated, however was undesirable in our case.
Indeed, we wished as much discussion as possible to take place on the forum, irrespective of it's nature, as long as it addressed issues in the e-science and e-infrastructure domains.
We thus chose to use the discussion forum for peer-learning and interaction with the course facilitators.
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With the certainty of the project's end, a decision was taken to brand the service not as the "Sci-GaIA discussion forum", but rather the "African e-Infrastructure Discussion Forum."
Thus, a search for "africa e-infrastructure" yields this service at the top of the list.
The service is also in the top of hits when searching for "africa open science" shared with the recent "African Open Science Platform"^[The African Open Science Platform (AOSP) is an independent initiative and should not be confused with the Open Science Platform (OSP)] initiative supported by the South African Academy of Science.
A conversation has thus begun with the AOSP initiative, which has a far longertime horizon than Sci-GaIA, to invite their constituency and supported communities to adopt the forum
Good progress has been made in this direction, during the final conference^[See the interview with the director of the initaitive, Ina Smith - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icBcnpvul9M and presentation at [doi: 10.15169/sci-gaia:1491990282.35](https://dx.doi.org/10.15169/sci-gaia:1491990282.35)].
A conversation has thus begun with the AOSP initiative, which has a far longer time horizon than Sci-GaIA, to invite their constituency and supported communities to adopt the forum
Good progress has been made in this direction, during the final conference^[See the interview with the director of the initiative, Ina Smith - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icBcnpvul9M and presentation at [doi: 10.15169/sci-gaia:1491990282.35](https://dx.doi.org/10.15169/sci-gaia:1491990282.35)].
Continued collaboration with WACREN and UbuntuNet is all but a certainty, given the close relationships between the partners, outside of the scope of Sci-GaIA.

These actions are aimed at assuring the continuity of the service and extending it's membership to new and relevant communities.
However, we need to address the sustainability of the _existing_ communities on the forum too.
Although a certain diminishing in support is inevitable at the end of the project, it should be noted that the community leadership has always been provided by the communities themselves, which were not necessarily supported directly by Sci-GaIA.
The use of the forum to support the various forms of learning will certainly continue in activities after the project, and already these have been requested by communities in the WACREN and Ubuntunet constituency.
The use of the forum to support the various forms of learning will certainly continue in activities after the project, and already these have been requested by communities in the WACREN and UbuntuNet constituency.

The specific communities that Sci-GaIA has supported (see [Communities Supported on the Forum](#communities-supported-on-the-forum)) may well see a diminishing return from the useage of the forum, if their main activity was also supported directly by Sci-GaIA, but this can be considered a natural evolution.
The specific communities that Sci-GaIA has supported (see [Communities Supported on the Forum](#communities-supported-on-the-forum)) may well see a diminishing return from the usage of the forum, if their main activity was also supported directly by Sci-GaIA, but this can be considered a natural evolution.

In summary, the partners are taking necessary action to ensure that the investment in terms of time and standing made in the forum sees good return in the future.

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