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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Register at
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.internationaldataweek.org/registration"><span style="color:#1155CC">http://www.internationaldataweek.org/registration</span></a><span style="color:black">
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Registration is now officially open for International Data Week 2018 (IDW 2018) in Gaborone, Botswana from 5-8 November 2018. Take advantage of early bird pricing by registering at the link below prior to 30 September 2018. Reduced pricing is also available
for students and attendees originating from and who are also based in </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.oecd.org/dac/financing-sustainable-development/development-finance-standards/DAC_List_ODA_Recipients2014to2017_flows_En.pdf"><span style="color:#1155CC">low
and middle income countries</span></a><span style="color:black">.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Co-organized by the Botswana Open Data Open Science Forum represented by
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.ub.bw/"><span style="color:#1155CC">University of Botswana</span></a><span style="color:black"> (UB), the
</span><a href="https://www.assaf.org.za/"><span style="color:#1155CC">Academy of Science of South Africa</span></a><span style="color:black"> (ASSAf), the
</span><a href="http://www.codata.org/"><span style="color:#1155CC">Committee on Data</span></a><span style="color:black"> (CODATA) of the
</span><a href="https://council.science/"><span style="color:#1155CC">International Science Council</span></a><span style="color:black"> (ISC), the ISC
</span><a href="http://www.worlddatasystems.com/"><span style="color:#1155CC">World Data Systems</span></a><span style="color:black"> (WDS), and the
</span><a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/"><span style="color:#1155CC">Research Data Alliance</span></a><span style="color:black"> (RDA), this landmark event combines the 12th RDA Plenary Meeting, SciDataCon 2018 and numerous other co-located events hosted
by data-focused organisations from around the globe.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">With the theme ‘The Digital Frontiers of Global Science’, IDW 2018 will be a rich week of science and data, filled with plenary sessions
and panel discussions </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="http://internationaldataweek.org/speakers-0"><span style="color:#1155CC">featuring many renowned international data experts</span></a><span style="color:black">
including:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Rob Adam, South African Radio Astronomy Observatory and Square Kilometre Array<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Phaik Yeong Cheah, University of Oxford and Wellcome Research Programme, Bangkok<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Fosca Giannotti, Research at the Information Science and Technology Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Jörg Helmschrot, Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Elizabeth Marincola, African Academy of Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Joy Phumaphi, African Leaders Malaria Alliance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Ismail Serageldin, Bibliotheca Alexandrina<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Breakout sessions will be another key component of IDW 2018, featuring more than 60 separate meetings which will be led by the RDA,
WDS and CODATA member communities to address key issues and trends in the data community. The detailed programme listing these breakouts will be announced in the coming days.
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<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Don’t wait.<br>
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Register soon and join us in beautiful Botswana for a week filled with collaboration, idea-sharing and innovation.
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<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">More information at
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="http://internationaldataweek.org/"><b><span style="color:#1155CC">http://internationaldataweek.org/</span></b></a><b><span style="color:black">
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