[Community] Fwd: Paths to Success for Open Science in Africa I The 4th Sci-GaIA thematic Workshop - Oct, 6-7 2016

[Omo Oaiya]

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Subject: Paths to Success for Open Science in Africa I The 4th Sci-GaIA
thematic Workshop - Oct, 6-7 2016
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* Sept 2016*

Dear colleague,

*The 4th Sci-GaIA thematic Workshop will take place on October, 6-7, 2016
at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. *

This  *4th *Sci-GaIA workshop will focus on “*Paths to Success for Open
Science in Africa*”

Recently, the Dakar Declaration on Open Science in Africa
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made, recognising issues of access, reproducibility, re-usability,
discoverability and impact of African scholarship. The declaration has been
signed by several prominent university and research infrastructure bodies
in Europe and Africa.

Research infrastructures – in particularly e-Infrastructures – can of
course play a crucial role in the enabling of an Open Science paradigm.
Indeed, many aspects of Open Science cannot be enabled without access to
network, data, repositories and computational infrastructures, as well as
platforms for the publication and re-use of scientific software.

*However, to what extent are our current and planned research
infrastructures actually able to implement our Open Science aspirations ?*

Several related questions arise :

What does current experience in using our research infrastructures say
about motivators and inhibitors of the actual endeavour of Open research ?

The European Commission has developed high-level roadmap on an Open Science
Cloud
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how is Africa situated with respect to this view ?

• How will e-Infrastructures being developed to satisfy the needs of
specific research communities be able to accommodate sharing and
interoperability with existing and peer infrastructures ?

• What role do e-Research centres play in enabling the full exploitation of
the wide range of research infrastructures available to researchers?

• To what extent are Open principles embedded in STEM curricula, and what
can be done to improve this ?

*There are many paths to success in opening science, but also many
roadblocks.*

*Aim of the event*

The workshop is one of the fringe events of the prestigious International
Conference on Research Infrastructures
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(ICRI
2016) and it will tackle two main questions of Open Science as it pertains
to Research Infrastructures, particularly e-Infrastructures :

• How are individual African scientists and students adopting open science
practices

• What does the African research infrastructures ecosystem inhibit or
promote open   science ?

*Organisation of the event*Our event will :

• Invite champions on various scientific fields in the region to express
their challenges and solutions to issues facing them, during their open
science endeavour

• Relate the recent UCT e-Research experience in enabling open science at
an institutional and regional level

• Demonstrate a open science platform developed in the context of the
Sci-GaIA project.

• Provide a space to investigate and critically examine the issues around
open science, through a brainstorming and discussion session

*Intended audience*

The event will be open to researchers, content creators, educators,
developers and policy makers in research infrastructures, with specific use
cases in fields including, but not restricted to bioinformatics, health,
agent-based simulation, human language technologies, earth sciences,
climate, weather etc.

There will be particular focus on infrastructure interoperability and
reproducibility of research using collaborative platforms.

There will be invited speakers from research communities across Africa,
including but not restricted to, the communities of practice supported by
the Sci-GaIA project.

Stay tuned on the event website: http://agenda.ct.infn.it/e/fourth-workshop
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