UR DVC Strategic Planning & Administration visit to Borås

This week, the University of Borås had the honour of recieving theUniversity of Rwanda Deputy Vice Chancellor Strategic Planning & Administration Dr. Papias Malimba Musafiri. It gave us a great opportunity to talk about our respective strengths and aims, our collaboration and potential future cooperation. The PhD students Berthilde Uwamwezi and Muhebera Bizimana joined for lunch. The list of people whom the DVC met covers areas from Science Park, textiles and business, to Library and Information Science, from teachers to the Vice Chancellor Björn Brorström, whose senior advisor Sten Dellby guided the DVC throughout the day.

Thank you for paying us a visit, Papias. We are looking forward to meeting you here again.

Papias Malimba Musafiri and Sten Dellby at Smart Textiles
checking a hockey stick entirely made with textile fibre.

Updating the list of e-resources

This week and the next I'm in Rwanda working with UR library staff to verify that the list of e-resources is updated. This is the list of INASP resources which you find at the UR website / Resources / Electronic resources.
We have removed the e-resources where the subscription has been discontinued and we have added the e-resources which are new for 2016.

Cross-cutting programs cooperating

Sylvie Mboyo, responsible for the harmonization of ICT at the University of Rwanda, hosted a meeting Friday afternoon at the College of Science and Technology (CST).
Sylvie, Alphonse Ngabonzima (library director at CST), Eva Norling (librarian at BTH) and Anna Stockman (librarian at BTH) discussed IP-addresses, infrastructure, web development, collaborative tools, Content management systems, proxy servers and much more.
It was a very fruitful meeting and a "To do list" will be followed up by the participants.

Alphonse, Sylvie and Eva

Some recent photos

Waiting for the short courses and the Annual Review Meeting that all the Rwandan and Swedish Sida-UR team leaders attend in October, it is about time to share some of the pictures taken during a team leader's visit to Rwanda in September. 

Team at the College of Business and Economics Library