Session
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- Ana Eliza Duarte, NIC.br, Technical community, GRULAC - Henrique Xavier, NIC.br, Technical community, GRULAC - Carolina Botero, Karisma, Civil society, GRULAC - Beatriz Rocha, NIC.br, Technical community, GRULAC - Reinaldo Ferraz, NIC.br, Technical community, GRULAC - Sarita Albagli, IBICT, Technical community, GRULAC
- Henrique Xavier, NIC.br, Technical community, GRULAC - Carolina Botero, Karisma, Civil society, GRULAC - Kazuhiro Hayashi, NISTEP, Technical community, Asia - Sarita Albagli, IBICT, Technical community, GRULAC
- Ana Eliza Duarte, NIC.br, Technical community, GRULAC
- Beatriz Rocha, NIC.br, Technical community, GRULAC
- Reinaldo Ferraz, NIC.br, Technical community, GRULAC
Targets: Open Science can provide a pathway for youth and adults to learn advanced technical skills by making scientific knowledge, tools, and data accessible and transparent to everyone, aligning with target 4.4. Furthermore, Open Science is a policy that directly contributes to increasing access to science (target 17.6) and promoting knowledge and technology sharing (target 17.16). By making required knowledge available to more people and expanding the exposition of scientific contributions from different parties, Open Science reduces the knowledge gap and fosters innovation (target 8.3) and cooperation (target 17.6). Additionally, Open Science can drive information and communications technology (target 17.8), as they are essential for its advancement.
The session will consist of three parts. Firstly, the speakers will introduce the topic of Open Science and address three key questions: What are the best practices in Open Science? What are the current challenges we must face? What technical and governance approaches can be adopted to overcome these challenges? This presentation will serve as an ice breaker for the second part, where participants and speakers will be divided into small groups to discuss the topic. Online participants will be split into online breakout groups. At the end of the session, all groups will come together to present a summary of their discussions.
Open Science is the practice of promoting transparency, accessibility, and availability of scientific endeavors and their results to everyone. It fosters innovation, reduces global inequalities by disseminating knowledge, and enhances trust by allowing external scrutiny of data, techniques, and analysis. We invite you to join us in this discussion session on the technical and governance challenges and opportunities for advancing Open Science globally. After a brief introduction about Open Science, our debate will commence with a focus on its best practices, followed by an identification of bottlenecks and critical areas for improvement. From there, we will explore the technical and governance challenges we must address. Along the way, we will explore the intersections between Open Science and topics such as Data Localization, Sovereignty, Usage, and Governance, Information Literacy and Rights, and Skill building for advanced technologies.
To ensure that those joining the networking session online can fully participate, we will use video conferencing tools equipped with breakout room capabilities. In the first part of the session, online and onsite participants will connect in one virtual meeting to listen to the speakers' considerations. Then, in the second part, online participants will be divided into virtual breakout rooms to have discussions among themselves and the online speakers. At the end of the session, all participants will regroup to share the summary of the breakout group discussions. Moreover, we will provide remote participants with alternative communication methods, such as chat rooms or messaging platforms, to allow further interaction and feedback with the moderator and other participants.