The Commission for Developing Countries, part of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) has launched a new support scheme where the shipment of textbooks to universities in less economically developed countries is supported. CDC offers limited financial support for shipment costs for individual scientists or institutions wishing to donate books in the mathematical sciences to libraries in developing countries. Libraries in universities/research institutions in developing countries can apply for to receive donated books.

The Commission for Developing Countries (CDC) of the International Mathematical Union is pleased to announce that Professor Padmanabhan Seshaiyer of George Mason University's Department of Mathematical Sciences in Fairfax, Virgina (USA) has completed his stay as visiting lecturer at the Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology (NM AIST-Arusha) in Arusha, Tanzania.

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The program is designed to enhance the mathematical capacity &productivity of recipient research groups. The project will focus on mathematicians and their graduate students at institutions of higher learning in sub-Saharan Africa. The Foundation will make competitive awards that, taken together, will total approximately 400,000 USD per year for each of the next 10 years.

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As part of the Capacity and Networking Project (CANP), a workshop called EDIMATHS took place in Mali, from the 19th – 30th September 2011 at the University of Bamako.

The programme had more than 40 participants, approximately half from Mali and the rest from Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Niger and Senegal.

The workshop has received funding through UNESCO, ICMI, IMU, CIMPA, SCAC/Bamako, the Ministre de l'Éducation, de l'Alphabétisation et des Langues Nationales and the Ministre de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche Scientifique du Mali.