CCC announces strategic collaboration agreement in Africa

CCC has announced a strategic collaboration agreement with the Training Centre in Communication (TCC – Africa) to support the identification of organisation affiliations to help improve the tracking of research output from African institutions.

TCC Africa’s Open Infrastructure program includes the Africa PID Alliance, whose mission is to secure the future of African innovation, indigenous knowledge, and cultural heritage. It supports scientists and inventors in disseminating and commercialising their research innovations.

CCC’s persistent identifier (PID)-based solution, Ringgold, contains more than 750,000 records of global organisations engaged in scholarly research. Ringgold has been used by 80 publishers, service providers, and funders for more than 20 years. TCC Africa will use a subset of Ringgold organisation data within the Digital Object Container Identifier (DOCiD). CCC will incorporate updates to African institutions in the Ringgold database.

“CCC continues to support cross-stakeholder initiatives within the scholarly communications ecosystem,” said Emily Sheahan, Vice President & Managing Director, CCC. “This collaboration with TCC Africa demonstrates CCC’s commitment to backing initiatives that drive further adoption of PIDs, enable interoperability across internal and external systems, and provide researchers, librarians, organizations, and other users with the flexibility to select the identifier system(s) that best fit their needs.”

“DOCID was created to ensure African research outputs, especially indigenous and cultural heritage knowledge, are accurately attributed and contextually grounded,” said Joy Owango, Project Lead at the Africa PID Alliance. “Integrating Ringgold data through this collaboration with CCC strengthens that mission, positioning African scholarship and innovation more visibly within global knowledge systems.”

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