Addressing institutional potential loss of records and knowledge in Africa: The case of the ECA institutional repository - A knowledge base on African socio-economic development

► Development of UNECA institutional repository. ► Richer metadata schemas and controlled vocabularies for value-added services. ► Overcoming quality management and metadata cross-interoperability issues. ► Internal institutional collaboration to address institutional memory loss. ► Connectivity challenges for populating and accessing repositories in Africa being addressed.