eLwazi is adapted from ulwazi, the Xhosa word for “knowledge” or "information", and olwazi, meaning big rock in Luganda. The aim of eLwazi is to provide an African Open Data Science Platform and associated resources to support the Harnessing Data Science for Health Discovery and Innovation in Africa (DS-I Africa) consortium and beyond. The platform, which is accessed via user workspaces, will enable discovery of local and federated cohorts and datasets and provide seamless access to a suite of tools and workflows that enable reproducible data analysis and cross-consortium projects. These will be interfaced with a choice of computing infrastructures that are feasible for African scientists, including public and private Cloud and local HPC facilities and, where necessary, protected through authorization and authentication access protocols.

eLwazi Open Data Science Platform

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