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Nabil Ksibi

Nabil Ksibi

Co-founder of DOCiD and Co-Project Lead of the Africa PID Alliance; Engagement Lead at ORCID working on African open-science and persistent-identifier infrastructure.

Sep 10, 2026

17:00
So how does DOCID help ensure that African research, indigenous knowledge, cultural heritage, and local innovations are properly documented, recognized, and preserved for future generations?
17:16
So, and that's a good question because as I'm working with institutions here in Tunisia and North Africa, it's always, and we recently had this question at the Burkina Faso training for DOCID, Yes, yes.
17:35
And the thing is that preservation is not simply about storage.
17:40
It's not just about storing your data and that's it.
17:45
Because at the end, you can store them at your hard drive, in your laptop, or at a local server.
17:53
The thing is that preservation is also about context, right? Right.
17:58
So what Docket does is that it enables as to document not only what exists but also who created it and where it originated right and how it evolved that's that's very good also part because it's including project identifiers and including RAID and RRIDs, which are telling the story of your project, like identifying your data management plan.

5 MINS LATER

23:53
So now looking ahead, what impact do you hope DocID will have on African universities, research institutions, governments, knowledge creators over the next decade? And well, are we looking beyond Africa? What is the plan here?

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