Mentorship Indaba April 2021: Open Education for a Better World Mentorship Programme
Channel: ESCALATOR
Date: 22/04/2021

Presenters: Igor Lesko & Derek Moore (Open Education for a Better World)

The presentation offered a brief introduction to the Open Education for a Better World Online Mentoring Programme and specifically focused on one of the focus topics of the Mentorship Indaba: Mentor Recruitment, Support & Reward Strategies.

Slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4729422

This presentation was part of the Computational Research and Open Science Community Mentorship Indaba organised by ESCALATOR on 15 April 2021. Other videos from the event are available at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAWb55M7X2CHtSDYeDYKD10hBQFQDd0EP.

The Mentorship Indaba included presentations by eight existing mentorship programmes focusing on five core topics:
 - Programme content/mentee projects
 - Pairing mentors/mentees
 - Mentor recruitment/reward/support
 - Measuring impact
 - Post programme support

Programmes that participated in the event included:
 - Open Life Science (https://openlifesci.org/)
 - Zindi Mentorship Programme (https://zindi.medium.com/a-new-generation-of-african-data-scientists-learns-and-grows-though-zindi-mentorship-9798dfbceade)
 - CORE Africa Research Mentorship Scheme (CARMS) (https://coreafrica.org/ourprogrammes/mentorship)
 - She Code Africa Community Mentorship Project (https://medium.com/shecodeafrica/sca-mentorship-program-cohort-1-recap-7d2a26e0e2c5)
 - WanaData (https://medium.com/wanadata-africa/about-us-a4c53027b716)
 - Deep Learning Indaba Mentorship Programme (https://deeplearningindaba.com/mentorship/)
 - Open Education for a Better World Online Mentoring Programme (https://oe4bw.org/)

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