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Public Lecture: Openness in Data, Science and Governance
CODATA's Executive Committee member, Professor Muliaro Wafula will be giving a public lecture on 'Openness in Data, Science and Governance' at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. CODATA's President, Barend Mons and CODATA's Executive Director, Simon Hodson will attend this event. Location: Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, ICT Centre of Excellence and Open Data-iCEOD. Venue: Assembly Hall, JKUAT Main Campus Time: 1.50 pm – 4.00 pm Date: Monday, April 15th, 2019 Registration: Entry is free DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 29 APRIL 2019: CALL FOR SESSIONS FOR CODATA 2019 BEIJING
CALL FOR SESSIONS – DEADLINE 29 April 2019 https://conference.codata.org/CODATA_2019/ The CODATA 2019 Conference will be held on 19-20 September 2019 in Beijing, China. This year’s conference theme is: Towards next-generation data-driven science: policies, practices and platforms. The conference will follow a high-level workshop, 17-18 September 2019, on ‘Implementing Open Research Data Policy and Practice’ that will examine such challenges in China and elsewhere in the light of the emergence of data policies and in particular the China State Council’s Notice on ‘Measures for Managing Scientific Data’. Science globally is being transformed by new digital technologies. At the same time addressing the major global challenges of the age requires the analysis of vast quantities of heterogeneous data from multiple sources. In response, many countries, regions and scientific domains have developed Research Infrastructures to assist with the management, stewardship and analysis. These developments have been stimulated by Open Science policies and practices, both those developed by funders and those that have emerged from communities. The FAIR principles and supporting practices seek to accelerate this process and unlock the potential of analysis at scale with machines. This conference provides a significant opportunity to survey and examine these developments from a global perspective. The convening organisations are pleased to invite you to contribute to the program by proposing sessions. The deadline for session proposals is 29 April 2019: https://conference.codata.org/CODATA_2019/submit/ All proposals related to open science and open data, FAIR data, research data management and stewardship, research infrastructures and platforms are welcomed. The following themes are of particular interest: 1 February: Call for Session Proposals Released 22 April: Registration Open 29 April: Deadline for session proposals 13 May: Accepted session proposals notified; call for presentations and posters released 17 June: Deadline for presentation submissions and first round of poster submissions 8 July: Submitters notified of acceptances of full presentations and posters 1 August: Close of second round of poster submissions 18 August: Close of early bird registration 17-18 September: High Level Workshop on 'Implementing Open Research Data Policy and Practice’ 19-20 September: CODATA 2019 Conference ‘Towards next-generation data-driven science: policies, practices and platforms’ The Friendship Hotel of Beijing is one of the largest garden-style hotels in Asia. Located in the heart of ZhongGuanCun Hi-Tech Zone, the Friendship Hotel neighbours many world famous tourist sites and universities such as Tsinghua and Peking University, the Summer Palace. Address: Zhongguancun South St. Beijing 100873, P.R. China Website: http://www.friendshipshotel.com/en/ Tracking the impact of the CODATA/RDA data science schools: the case of the OSG
The CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Schools provide Early Career Researchers with the opportunity to meet their colleagues and learn relevant Data Science skills. We actively encourage students to use their learning as an opportunity to create new collaborations and generate new research. One spectacularly successful example of this is Oscar Arbelaez Echeverry from Colombia who, through links made at the schools, enabled approximately 1.2 million CPU hours [this is akin to having access to a 1600 core cluster for a month] to be run on Monte Carlo simulations. As a result of accessing the Open Science Grid resource, six publications [1-7] have been generated by his supervisor, in the best journals in the field and for wider audiences. By providing Oscar with the relevant skills, he has been instrumental to advancing research in his home institution. Read the full blog here. http://codata.org/blog/2019/04/03/tracking-the-impact-of-the-codata-rda-data-science-schools-the-case-of-the-osg/ Deadline for Applications for the 2019 Foundation School http://www.codata.org/working-groups/research-data-science-summer-schools/datatrieste-2019 and Advanced Workshops http://www.codata.org/working-groups/research-data-science-summer-schools/datatrieste-2019 is approaching: 18 April 2019 Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: April 2019 Edition
Philippines: EU Copernicus programme provides full, free open data to aid in tackling El Niño The drought that is currently sweeping the country as a result of El Niño is already hitting Filipino farmers hard. Protecting the world from the threat of pandemics Creating mathematical and computational models of infectious diseases like pandemic flu gives government and policy-makers a toolkit to respond to an ever-present threat, says the University of Melbourne. Read the full newsletter here
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CODATA 2019: Towards next-generation data-driven science: policies, practices and platforms
1. FAIR and Open data policies
2. Advanced research infrastructures for Open Science and FAIR data
3. Data driven scientific discovery and decision-making.
4. Data intensive research for international scientific and global challenges
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Possible venue (TBC): the Friendship Hotel of Beijing.
England could run short of water within 25 years Sir James Bevan, the Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, recently shared these sentiments at the Waterwise conference in London.