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About AfriScience
Africa Science Information Access Network (AfriScience)
Unlocking Africa’s scientific potential through access, collaboration, and innovation.
AfriScience is a transformative initiative committed to improving access to research infrastructure, knowledge, and collaboration opportunities across the continent so that African researchers can move faster on energy, health, climate, food security, and sustainable development challenges.
About Us
A continental access network for scientific discovery
AfriScience is building the shared infrastructure layer that helps Africa’s research ecosystem become more visible, searchable, and connected.
Africa Science Information Access Network (AfriScience) is a transformative initiative committed to unlocking Africa’s scientific potential by improving access to research infrastructure, knowledge, and opportunities for collaboration across the continent.
The platform is designed as a one-stop access point where researchers, educators, innovators, and industry users can quickly identify the tools, institutional capabilities, and collaboration pathways needed to generate impactful solutions.
Discover
Find research equipment, institutions, expertise, and services through a shared searchable layer.
Connect
Link researchers, facilities, and institutions across borders and disciplines.
Access
Turn underused infrastructure into visible research capacity for broader scientific use.
Activate
The Challenge
Africa’s scientific resources remain too fragmented
Major investments in laboratories, scientific equipment, and expertise already exist, but the broader community often cannot see or access them efficiently.
Across Africa, significant investments have been made in research laboratories, scientific equipment, and technical expertise. However, these resources remain fragmented, underutilized, and often invisible to the broader research community.
Many researchers, innovators, and students still face limited access to essential equipment and facilities, slowing scientific progress, reducing research quality, and constraining innovation.
This disconnect represents a critical barrier to addressing Africa’s pressing challenges in health, climate change, food security, and sustainable development.
Our Solution
An open-access platform for research capacity and result visibility
AfriScienceNet is mapping and connecting research infrastructure across Africa through a centralized digital platform.
AfriScienceNet is building a continental, open-access digital platform that maps and connects research infrastructure across Africa.
We are creating a centralized, searchable database of research equipment and laboratories, technical expertise and facility managers, and institutions offering specialized scientific services.
Our Approach
How the network is being built
Technology — A scalable digital platform for discovery and access.
Collaboration — Connecting researchers, institutions, and networks.
Capacity Building — Supporting users to effectively utilize available resources.
Inclusivity — Expanding access to underserved researchers and institutions.
Expected Impact
What success looks like across the continent
Increase utilization of existing research infrastructure across Africa.
Why Now
A pivotal moment for African science
Africa is at a pivotal moment. With growing investments in science and technology, there is an urgent need to ensure that existing resources are visible, accessible, and effectively used. AfriScienceNet offers a cost-effective, scalable solution that maximizes current investments while strengthening the research ecosystem around them.
Our Vision
A fully connected African research ecosystem
Our vision is to create a research ecosystem where every researcher, regardless of location, can access the tools, knowledge, and networks needed to solve local and global challenges.
Call to Partnership
A platform that grows through collaboration
We invite partners, funders, and collaborators to support AfriScienceNet in building a future where access to scientific infrastructure is no longer a barrier, but a catalyst for innovation, discovery, and sustainable development across Africa.
Our Objectives
The platform outcomes AfriScience is driving
These objectives anchor both the public-facing platform and the institutional partnerships needed to sustain it.
Facilitate access to research equipment and scientific infrastructure across Africa and beyond.
Build a comprehensive, searchable database of research facilities and capabilities.
Create a one-stop platform for researchers, innovators, and service providers.
Platform Modules
Directories and tools that make the network usable
AfriScience is designed as a practical operating layer for discovery, visibility, and collaboration rather than a static information page.
Institutional Capacity
Explore universities, research centres, and organizations with visible information on equipment, expertise, funding, and collaboration opportunities.
Research Insights Contribution
A lightweight path for publishing research visibility
This contribution path is intended to surface valuable scientific outcomes without forcing a heavy upload workflow.
Researchers will be able to contribute published research insights to the AfriScienceNet network so impactful work becomes more visible and easier to connect with across institutions and regions.
The intended experience should enable submission of an abstract and a publication link only, keeping the workflow simple while increasing discovery and collaboration around already published work.
The contribution flow should also capture the laboratory where the research was carried out so outputs can be linked back to infrastructure, institutional capacity, and practical research environments.
Submission scope
Enable submission of abstract + publication link only.
Leadership
Prof. Barnabas A. Ikyo
President, Africa Science Information Access Network
23+ years of academic and research experience
$18 million research grant portfolio managed
Collaborations built across 17 countries
Partnership
Help shape a more connected African research ecosystem
AfriScience is designed to turn existing infrastructure into visible, accessible, and collaborative research capacity. We welcome institutions, technical partners, funders, and ecosystem builders who want to help grow that access layer across the continent.