30 June 2016
GMT timezone

> Speaker

Siluet Michelle Wilmers
Michelle Willmers has a background in academic and scholarly publishing and has worked as a consultant and institutional project manager in scholarly communication, with a focus on the African and developing country context, since 2008. Prior to that, she worked as an academic journal editor and publishing manager. She was a senior team member in the University of Cape Town Open Educational Resources initiative, Programme Manager of the Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme, and Project Manager of the OpenUCT Initiative. She recently served as a project manager and researcher in the World Wide Web Foundation's Open Data in Developing Countries initiative, and is currently the Curation and Dissemination Manager of the Global South Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project.