As an Interest Group concerned with architectures of institutional data management services, we have in the past tended to focus on learning from institutions from western countries. The broad theme for the next session will be the challenges facing institutions Africa and South America, and how these might be overcome. In the session emerging innovations will be shared that address the challenges of research data management in low and middle-income countries. As there are increasing demands on increasing the interoperability and exchange of data to enable research collaboration, what architectures are being designed to enable this interoperability and exchange. Which examples are there of regional and institutional projects in these regions addressing this and how do these intersect? How can regional and international exchange assist in addressing these challenges?

Introduction to RDARI, its previous sessions and context for this session (James Wilson) (5 min)

Introduction of the speakers and context for the session (Anwar Vahed, Director Data Intensive Research Initiative of South Africa) (5min) 

• Tshiamo Motshegwa, Director of the African Open Science Platform. (10 min)

• Mattia Vaccari, institutional eResearch director at UCT (10 min)

• Lautaro Matas, CEO La Referencia – (10 min)

• Representative from Latin American Institution (10 min)

• Discussion (35 min) facilitated by Anwar Vahed

Wrap up and next steps with the Interest Group (James Wilson) (5 min)

Those working at Research institutions designing Research data Architectures or elements of these. Also those responsible for connecting the elements of the Data Architectures into a valuable, well-connected whole both within, but also across instituions. Those interested in building institutional data architectures both within African and South American institutions, but also across these regions.