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.

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, scholarly and science communication.TCC Africa’s mission is to contribute to the increase in profile, locally, and internationally, of African science, and its impact on the life of Africans, by improving skills in technical communication in all forms, at academia and other relevant forums, in 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 Rwanda

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.

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 the Danish Development Agency( DANIDA) www.biosafetrain.dk. I managed communication of the project in three African countries (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania), and report to headquarters- in Denmark. The partner institutions were University of Nairobi, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute,Makerere University, University of Dar-es-Salaam, Copenhagen University and Aarhus University. By the end of the project DANIDA voted the Communications office as ‘Excellent’DUTIES• 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 2006-http://www.biosafetrain.dk/Press%20center/In_press.htm .• Increase the project profile internationally, especially in developing countries, by managing communication within and without of the project (with our stakeholders)• Assist in preparing material for international appearances, conferences and workshops and organizing the projects presence at relevant international forums• Increase the profile of the programme through organising or co-organising public events, discussion forums, press conferences as appropriate in Africa

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 Tanzania lacks.DUTIES• 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 this Republic. With a print run of 10,000 copies. • 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.