Joy Owango Email & Phone Number

Kenya

This project explores the role of publishing in the scientific enterprise, asking how the scholarly publishing system can maximize benefit to global science and to wider audiences for scientific research.

Nairobi, Kenya

The Training Centre in Communication(TCC Africa), is the first African-based training centre to teach effective communication skills to scientists. TCC Africa is an award winning Trust, established as a non-profit entity in 2006 and is registered in Kenya. TCC Africa provides capacity support in improving researchers output and visibility training.

Nairobi

East And West Africa

East Africa

Guiding governments in East and West Africa, through the Ministries of Education/ Science Technology and Innovation on how they can improve the quality of higher education and research through access to high impact research intelligence.Countries i have on going discussions include Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana,Mauritius, Burkina Faso,Senegal, Ivory Coast and.

East And West Africa

Building research capacity for academics and scientists, through Gold Standard access to resources in academic publishing, bibliometrics and benchmarking and analytics of scientific performance, networking and collaboration.Guiding scientists in understanding trends in research and funding opportunities.

Sub Sahara Africa

Kenya

• Communications manager for a regional (East African) biotechnology project called BiosafeTrain, which, focuses on biosafety risk assessment of transgenic plants on the environment. BiosafeTrain is a project funded by.
• Set up the Africa and communications office.
• Improve the information flow and presence of the project in the East African region, but also on the continent and internationally.
• Came up with the communications strategy, aids and tools of the project.
• Write interviews of participating people, for publication on website and other forums
• Organise interviews, local press contacts. Set up a media mailing list and out of this BiosafeTrain has been avidly covered on print and broadcast since the inception of the Africa office in December.

Tanzania

• I set up the above company as an expatriate in Tanzania. Mwanangu Publishing Ltd is an affiliate to DeskTop Productions Tanzania Ltd. Mwanangu Publishing was solely set up to produce consumer based publications that.
• I developed and set up and launched Mwanangu the face of the publishing company. Mwanangu is Swahili for ‘My Child’, and it is the premier mother and baby magazine in Tanzania. Making it the first since independence of.
• The airline magazine Paa of the subsidiary national carrier (Precision Air) of the government of Tanzania is part of the portfolio of Mwanangu Publishing company.

Ma-International Higher Educational Management- (Partial Fellowship)

Certificate, Introduction To Scientometrics

Post Graduate Certificate, Mass Communication/Media Studies

Certificate, Technical And Scientific Communication

Diploma, Mass Communication/Media Studies