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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Dear Colleagues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">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
<b>European Open Science Cloud</b>. Apologies for leaving it out in the original email.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">An understanding of
<a href="https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/index.cfm?pg=open-science-cloud">
EOSC (European Open Science Cloud)</a>, 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 (</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Head
 of Unit C2, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission</span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#84919C">/</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#545454;background:white">
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">EOSC) and the following, for directing AOSP:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Dr Simon Hodson (Executive Director CODATA), Prof Geoffrey Boulton (President CODATA) and Dr Heide Hackmann (Chief Executive Officer International Science
 Council) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Please find the additional presentations below:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/AfricanOpenSciencePl/europes-open-science-policy-and-policy-platformjeanclaude-burgelman">Europe's Open Science Policy
 and Policy Platform</a>/Jean-Claude Burgelman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/AfricanOpenSciencePl/eosc-strategic-implementation-roadmap-20182020jeanclaude-burgelman">EOSC Strategic Implementation
 Roadmap 2018-2020</a>/Jean-Claude Burgelman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Ina (on behalf of the AOSP Project Team)</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Op 10 sep. 2018 om 17:04 heeft Ina Smith <<a href="mailto:Ina@assaf.org.za">Ina@assaf.org.za</a>> het volgende geschreven:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">As part of its
<a href="https://www.dst.gov.za/images/2018/Draft-White-paper--on-STI-7_09.pdf">commitment to African STI cooperation</a>, South Africa – through the
<a href="http://africanopenscience.org.za/">African Open Science Platform</a> (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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The SA Dept. of Science and Technology, alongside the AOSP Advisory Council, hosted a
<a href="http://africanopenscience.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Agenda.pdf">
high-level stakeholder meeting</a> on 3 and 4 September 2018. The meeting brought together individuals discussing a proposed Phase 2 of AOSP:
<a href="https://zenodo.org/record/1407488#.W5Z7v-gzbIU">The African Open Science Platform – The Future of Science and Science for the Future</a>. Contributions during the meeting will be incorporated into the proposal document, after which it will be circulated
 for further review.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The following presentations from this meeting are now online available (as more become available, it will be added to the AOSP web):</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/AfricanOpenSciencePl/the-digital-revolution-and-open-science-for-the-futuregeoffrey-boulton">The Digital
 Revolution, and Open Science for the Future</a>/Geoffrey Boulton</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/AfricanOpenSciencePl/response-of-academies-of-science-to-open-scienceroseanne-diab">Response of Academies
 of Science to Open Science</a>/Roseanne Diab</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/AfricanOpenSciencePl/vision-and-mission-for-a-future-african-open-science-platformfelix-dakora">Vision and
 Mission for a Future African Open Science Platform</a>/Felix Dakora</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/AfricanOpenSciencePl/the-landscape-of-open-science-in-africasusan-veldsman-joseph-wafula">The Landscape of
 Open Science in Africa</a>/Joseph Wafula & Susan Veldsman</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/AfricanOpenSciencePl/building-and-operating-national-open-science-research-infrastructures-the-experience-of-kenet-the-nren-of-kenyameoli-kashorda">Building
 and Operating National Open Science Research Infrastructures - the experience of KENET, the NREN of Kenya</a>/Meoli Kashorda</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/AfricanOpenSciencePl/aims-ecosystem-of-transformationbarry-green">AIMS Ecosystem of Transformation</a>/Barry
 Green</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/AfricanOpenSciencePl/h3africah3abionet-case-studynicola-mulder">H3Africa/H3ABioNet Case Study</a>/Nicola
 Mulder</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">On the AOSP Calendar October to December 2018</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#70AD47">October 2018</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Open Access Week, 22-28 October 2018, Everywhere</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Read more at
<a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/">http://www.openaccessweek.org/</a> </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#70AD47">November 2018</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">International Data Week 2018, 5-8 November 2018, Botswana</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79"><a href="http://internationaldataweek.org/registration">Registration is now open</a> 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 <a href="http://internationaldataweek.org/">
http://internationaldataweek.org/</a> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">14<sup>th</sup> Annual Meeting of African Science Academies (AMASA-14), 12-14 November 2018, Benin</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">AOSP participation in a session focussing on Open Science. Read more about AMASA at
<a href="http://www.knascience.org/index.php/amasa/about-amasa">http://www.knascience.org/index.php/amasa/about-amasa</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">ASIS&T Annual Meeting, 10-14 November 2018, Vancouver, Canada</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">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
<a href="https://www.asist.org/am18/"><span style="color:#1F4E79">https://www.asist.org/am18/</span></a>  </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Science Granting Councils Initiative Strategic Meeting, 8 November 2018, Ivory Coast</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">AOSP participation in a session focussing on Open Science. This is a closed meeting. Read more about the Science Granting Councils Initiative at
<a href="https://sgciafrica.org/en-za">https://sgciafrica.org/en-za</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">CODATA-RDA Foundational School in Research Data Science, 22 October – 2 November 2018, Kigali, Rwanda</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">AOSP is a proud sponsor of a facilitator presenting at this event. Read more at
<a href="http://www.codata.org/working-groups/research-data-science-summer-schools/kigali-2018">
http://www.codata.org/working-groups/research-data-science-summer-schools/kigali-2018</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#70AD47">December 2018</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">e-Age18 Conference, 2-3 December 2018, Amman, Jordan</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">AOSP is exploring presenting a paper on data infrastructure services that can be provided by NRENs. See the Call for Papers at
<a href="http://asrenorg.net/eage18/?q=content/call-participation">http://asrenorg.net/eage18/?q=content/call-participation</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Science Forum South Africa (SFSA), 12-14 December 2018, Pretoria, South Africa</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Read more at
<a href="http://www.sfsa.co.za/">http://www.sfsa.co.za/</a> AOSP will be presenting a session on
<i>“The Future of Science and Science for the Future”</i>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">With kind regards</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)<br>
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<a href="https://loy2016blog.wordpress.com/">LIASA Librarian of the Year 2016</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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