# Joy Owango Created: January 30, 2022 1:01 PM Pronouns: She / Her Session: Part 2: Nonprofit effectiveness and assessment ![Joy Owango Pic 1 (1).jpg](https://i.imgur.com/4jznOXg.jpg =390x) **Founding Director, [Training Center in Communication](https://www.tcc-africa.org/); [AfricArXiv](https://info.africarxiv.org/) (Board member)** Joy Owango is an experienced   award winning Founding Director of the [Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa)](https://www.tcc-africa.org/about/) an [award winning](https://www.tcc-africa.org/ten-hot-topics-around-scholarly-publishing/)  Trust registered in Kenya set up in 2006 and is the first African-based training centre to teach effective communication skills to scientists. TCC Africa is in partnership with the University of Nairobi, Kenya and provides capacity support in improving African researchers output and visibility through training in [scholarly](https://www.tcc-africa.org/courses/) and [science communication](https://www.tcc-africa.org/course/science-communication-and-communicating-to-non-scientist/). She has  a demonstrated history of working in higher education (in both in private, university and   non-governmental sector).  She  was a successful higher education practitioner with Clarivate Analytics and worked with the following Governments, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Mauritius, Ghana, Senegal, Burkina Faso and created foundational opportunities valued at approximately USD 1.3Million. As the   Director of TCC Africa she is  currently working with [all 15 African countries that have committed to spending 1% of their GDP in Higher Education and Research and Development.](https://sgciafrica.org/en-za/participating-councils)  Beyond this  I have successfully created  Global North –South collaborations, where , our centre is  providing equitable access to open source  research discovery solutions to African  governments and  their respective academic communities. In addition to this, she sits on the board of [AfricArxiv](https://info.africarxiv.org/team/),  Africa’s  only preprint repository and as a project partner we support African researchers and  institutes on how they can improve their  data output, sovereignty  and visibility through effective use of preprints and personal identifiers.  As a centre we launched TCC Africa thought leadership [research capacity webinars](https://web.facebook.com/tccafrica/videos/?ref=page_internal) , where we created a platform for African researchers to access various aspects of the research life cycle and [#openscience](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=openscience&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6766972789741129728) in Africa through various collaborations North -South collaborations. These webinars  are hosted live on Facebook and have garnered  over 20,000 views and  been liked  over 1000 times   and the subsequent  announcements  on Facebook, Twitter  and Linkedin  have received  over  10,000 cumulative likes. The webinars are equally indexed in  [AfricArxiv](https://africarxiv.pubpub.org/tcc-africa) and can be cited as resources. She  currently sit on the Steering Committee of the International Science Council’s, Steering Group on the *Project on the future of scientific publishing.* Her  latest achievement in higher education and research capacity in Africa was recognized by The Organization of Women in Science for the Developing World by UNESCO during the 2021 International Day for Women in Science. [Joy Owango - Member Of The Board Of Advisors - AfricArxiv - The free preprint service for African scientists | LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joy-owango-8a1b7824/?originalSubdomain=ke) [First of Her Name on Twitter: "It is an absolute honor to be recognized by @UNESCO @OwsdSecretariat on my efforts through @tccafrica in helping African scientists improve their research output and increase their visibility.#Openscience #Highered #africanwomen in #science. https://t.co/Dv5PFkm71s / Twitter"](https://twitter.com/JoyOwango/status/1361208739907461120) ![Notion Assets.png](https://i.imgur.com/5eo1I6t.png) [← Go Back (Speakers)](https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/Retreat-Workbook-2022-Expert-Session) ![Notion Assets.png](https://i.imgur.com/YqM7Egr.png) ![https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png](https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png) This workbook is made available under a [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Users are free to share, remix, and adapt this work. (Please attribute [Learning Day](https://learningday.community/) and [Invest in Open Infrastructure](https://investinopen.org/) in any derivative work.) --- URL for this page: https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/Retreat-Workbook-2022-Joy-Owango This page first published: 2022-03-25 ###### tags: `strategy-retreat-2022`