Current Awareness Archive: Jun2017

Current awareness is the term used to describe staying informed by keeping up to date with the latest publications, research and news in your field.

The perspective of current awareness is the present and the forthcoming, as opposed to the retrospective. 

Current awareness ranges from looking for information on specific topics on a regular basis (and this usually involves the assistance of your Personal Librarian to help you set up a search profile matched to your research interests) to embracing a wider, more general, and cross-disciplinary view that brings an element of serendipity into your search for the latest information.

Informally, researchers remain alert in all contexts for useful information and insights that will inform their daily practice, their research, and spark off innovative and creative ideas for new avenues of research

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Websites of the Month:

United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network

 In 2012, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) to mobilize global scientific and technological expertise to promote practical problem solving for sustainable development, including the design and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Following their adoption, we are now committed to supporting the implementation of the SDGs at local, national, and global scales.

We aim to accelerate joint learning and help to overcome the compartmentalization of technical and policy work by promoting integrated approaches to the interconnected economic, social, and environmental challenges confronting the world. The SDSN works closely with United Nations agencies, multilateral financing institutions, the private sector, and civil society.

The site can be followed on Twitter or Facebook . 

The year is marked with many special days, weeks, and months dedicated and devoted to raising awareness about important issues.

This monthly post, compiled by the Information Search Librarians Team, will note special dates and themes, and draw your attention to possibly interesting cross-disciplinary topical references intended to inform and to inspire ideas for research.

Selected Noteworthy Days in June

1-30 June Theme: “The year of OR Tambo: Advancing Youth Economic Empowerment”

4 Jun: International Day of Innocent Children - Victims of Aggression

5 Jun: International Cancer Survivors Day

5 Jun: World Environment Day

6-12 Jun: Heart Rhythm Week

8 Jun: World Oceans Day

13 Jun: International Albinism Awareness Day

14 Jun: World Blood Donor Day

16 Jun: Youth Day (South Africa)

17 Jun: World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought

20 Jun: World Refugee Day

23 Jun: Africa Public Service Day

26 Jun: International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking

Top stories

• Ivorian Tiote adds to Africa’s on-field casualty list after the player collapsed and died

• South Africa slips into recession as economy shrinks

• Brown studying Molefe's labour court challenge

• UPDATE: Court rules Molefe can't work at Eskom until labour matter heard

• Eskom wants more money

• Prasa board set to be dissolved

• Major storm headed for SA

South Africa

• Lewis Stores wins battle against club fee charges

• W.Cape emergency services on 24-hour standby for ‘intense cold front’

• Three arrested after taxi violence flares up in Soweto

• State-owned entities need better governance: Gigaba

• Rand stronger on S&P's unchanged credit rating

• Fuel prices to drop on Wednesday

Africa

• New app helps Mali skin doctors reach out to distant patients

• Bank of China open branch in Angola

• Morocco protesters remain defiant in face of unemployment, corruption

• EU to give 50m euros for African force in Sahel

• AU commission chair visits Sahel Saharan region

• China says 31 nationals detained in Zambia for illegal mining

• Suspects in deaths of UN experts presented in Congo court

• Observers dub Lesotho polls 'largely peaceful'

• Probe into soldiers at Lesotho voting stations

• Being black in a white skin: students with albinism battle prejudice

World

• India shows off space prowess with launch of mega-rocket

• US-backed forces attack IS Syrian stronghold Raqqa

• Leaked intel report shows Russian hackers probed US voting systems

• Puerto Rico declares Zika outbreak over; CDC maintains travel warning

• UK police reveal names of London attackers, say one investigated before

• Qatar flight ban begins as Gulf crisis grows

• Passengers jump from plane at Australian airport in bomb hoax: media

• Montenegro becomes NATO's 29th member

• Panicked Qatar shoppers stock up as Gulf rift bites

Should you wish to read Current Awareness guides of previous years, visit the Archive.

If you are looking for 2017's forthcoming conferences, the following websites are helpful:

• National Research Foundation's Forthcoming Conferences page

• Conference Alerts

• Academic Conferences and Publishing International

Palmer, PN. 2010.’Globalisation and Africa's Youth: Leveraging the Entrepreneurial Gains of Globalisation’. International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities & Nations, Vol. 10 Issue 2, p 211-223.

Abstract:

“The globalisation process offers participants economic benefits which hold out potential entrepreneurial gains for countries. While the inter-continental benefits of globalisation are noteworthy, Africa's youth it is contended, have not benefited. They have failed to benefit from this economic largesse and remain sceptical as to leveraging any entrepreneurial gains from the globalisation process. The abortive attempts by Africa's youth to enjoy the benefits for globalisation are explored. Their plight, despite African governments' interventionist measures, is ventillated thoughout this paper. Comparative trends in entrepreneurial development highlighting disparities between Africa and Western countries are explored. The rationale for these disparities are interrogated. Although global institutions do encourage youths' access to the benefits of globalisation, the reality is that Africa's youth are frequently impeded in their entrepreneurial initiatives due to the dearth of basic facilities, services and opportunities, all of which remains a challenge to