[IRTalk] AOSP High-level Stakeholder Meeting & AOSP Oct-Dec 2018 Calendar

Tue Sep 11 17:14:44 SAST 2018

Dear Colleagues

In addition to the communication yesterday to provide feedback on the high-level meeting and presentations, we would also like to share the following presentations from Dr Jean-Claude Burgelman, who also attended the high-level meeting and responded on behalf of the European Open Science Cloud. Apologies for leaving it out in the original email.

An understanding of EOSC (European Open Science Cloud)<https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/index.cfm?pg=open-science-cloud>, the EU experiences, and aligning with the rest of the scientific community in terms of open science and open data, highly important for the success of AOSP. So often experiences of others have guided us, and no need to reinvent the wheel. We are very proud of the EOSC successes, and incredibly thankful for contributions by our colleagues from all over the world, but especially to Jean-Claude Burgelman (Head of Unit C2, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission/ EOSC) and the following, for directing AOSP:
Dr Simon Hodson (Executive Director CODATA), Prof Geoffrey Boulton (President CODATA) and Dr Heide Hackmann (Chief Executive Officer International Science Council)

Please find the additional presentations below:

Europe's Open Science Policy and Policy Platform<https://www.slideshare.net/AfricanOpenSciencePl/europes-open-science-policy-and-policy-platformjeanclaude-burgelman>/Jean-Claude Burgelman
EOSC Strategic Implementation Roadmap 2018-2020<https://www.slideshare.net/AfricanOpenSciencePl/eosc-strategic-implementation-roadmap-20182020jeanclaude-burgelman>/Jean-Claude Burgelman

Kind regards
Ina (on behalf of the AOSP Project Team)

Op 10 sep. 2018 om 17:04 heeft Ina Smith <Ina at assaf.org.za<mailto:Ina at assaf.org.za>> het volgende geschreven:
Dear Colleagues

As part of its commitment to African STI cooperation<https://www.dst.gov.za/images/2018/Draft-White-paper--on-STI-7_09.pdf>, South Africa - through the African Open Science Platform<http://africanopenscience.org.za/> (AOSP) project - is working towards the advancement of the open science agenda elsewhere on the continent and within regional frameworks, along with many other stakeholders. AOSP plays a strategic role, through which African-wide development and coordination of data policies, data training and data infrastructure, are leveraged, with the support of the SA Dept. of Science and Technology and the SA National Research Foundation (NRF). Valuable networks were established this far, and there is great support for future collaboration among those networks.

AOSP is currently heading towards the end of Year 2 of its 3-year term. A landscape study has been conducted, frameworks are being developed, and we are looking forward to further engagement with more African countries in the third year of the project.

The SA Dept. of Science and Technology, alongside the AOSP Advisory Council, hosted a high-level stakeholder meeting<http://africanopenscience.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Agenda.pdf> on 3 and 4 September 2018. The meeting brought together individuals discussing a proposed Phase 2 of AOSP: The African Open Science Platform - The Future of Science and Science for the Future<https://zenodo.org/record/1407488#.W5Z7v-gzbIU>. Contributions during the meeting will be incorporated into the proposal document, after which it will be circulated for further review.

The following presentations from this meeting are now online available (as more become available, it will be added to the AOSP web):

·         The Digital Revolution, and Open Science for the Future<https://www.slideshare.net/AfricanOpenSciencePl/the-digital-revolution-and-open-science-for-the-futuregeoffrey-boulton>/Geoffrey Boulton

·         Response of Academies of Science to Open Science<https://www.slideshare.net/AfricanOpenSciencePl/response-of-academies-of-science-to-open-scienceroseanne-diab>/Roseanne Diab

·         Vision and Mission for a Future African Open Science Platform<https://www.slideshare.net/AfricanOpenSciencePl/vision-and-mission-for-a-future-african-open-science-platformfelix-dakora>/Felix Dakora

·         The Landscape of Open Science in Africa<https://www.slideshare.net/AfricanOpenSciencePl/the-landscape-of-open-science-in-africasusan-veldsman-joseph-wafula>/Joseph Wafula & Susan Veldsman

·         Building and Operating National Open Science Research Infrastructures - the experience of KENET, the NREN of Kenya<https://www.slideshare.net/AfricanOpenSciencePl/building-and-operating-national-open-science-research-infrastructures-the-experience-of-kenet-the-nren-of-kenyameoli-kashorda>/Meoli Kashorda

·         AIMS Ecosystem of Transformation<https://www.slideshare.net/AfricanOpenSciencePl/aims-ecosystem-of-transformationbarry-green>/Barry Green

·         H3Africa/H3ABioNet Case Study<https://www.slideshare.net/AfricanOpenSciencePl/h3africah3abionet-case-studynicola-mulder>/Nicola Mulder

On the AOSP Calendar October to December 2018

The last couple of months of this year promises to be very busy and exciting. We hope to see you at some - if not all - of the following events.

October 2018

Open Access Week, 22-28 October 2018, Everywhere
Read more at http://www.openaccessweek.org/

November 2018

International Data Week 2018, 5-8 November 2018, Botswana
Registration is now open<http://internationaldataweek.org/registration> for all. The Early Bird option closes on 30 September 2018. AOSP will be presenting a session on capacity building in open science. Read more at http://internationaldataweek.org/

14th Annual Meeting of African Science Academies (AMASA-14), 12-14 November 2018, Benin
AOSP participation in a session focussing on Open Science. Read more about AMASA at http://www.knascience.org/index.php/amasa/about-amasa.

ASIS&T Annual Meeting, 10-14 November 2018, Vancouver, Canada
This is a meeting of the Global Association for Information Science & Technology Professionals. AOSP is the co-author of a conference proceeding, and will be participating in a panel discussion on Open Science: Development, Challenges and Practice in the Global Context. More information is available at https://www.asist.org/am18/

Science Granting Councils Initiative Strategic Meeting, 8 November 2018, Ivory Coast
AOSP participation in a session focussing on Open Science. This is a closed meeting. Read more about the Science Granting Councils Initiative at https://sgciafrica.org/en-za

CODATA-RDA Foundational School in Research Data Science, 22 October - 2 November 2018, Kigali, Rwanda
AOSP is a proud sponsor of a facilitator presenting at this event. Read more at http://www.codata.org/working-groups/research-data-science-summer-schools/kigali-2018

December 2018

e-Age18 Conference, 2-3 December 2018, Amman, Jordan
AOSP is exploring presenting a paper on data infrastructure services that can be provided by NRENs. See the Call for Papers at http://asrenorg.net/eage18/?q=content/call-participation

Science Forum South Africa (SFSA), 12-14 December 2018, Pretoria, South Africa
Read more at http://www.sfsa.co.za/ AOSP will be presenting a session on "The Future of Science and Science for the Future".

With kind regards
Ina (on behalf of the AOSP Project Team)

Ina Smith
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Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)
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