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Africa embracing OpenScience and Open Data
Introducing the African Open SciencePlatform
Ina Smith
Academy of Science of South Africa
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South Africa’s contribution to OA (1)
• Open Institutional Repositories (Webometrics - 21)
• Open Data Repositories (re3data - 5)
• Open Educational Resources (E.g. UCT OER)
• MOOCs (MOOC List – 11)
• Open Access Journals (DOAJ – 67)
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South Africa’s contribution to OA (2)
• Open Monographs
• Open Conference Proceedings (E.g. SUNConferences)
• Open Patents
• Open Source Software & Open Standards (incl.instruments)
• Open Access & Open Science Policies (ROARMAP - 9)
• Open Science• Research Data Management Planning (RDM)
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Declarations & Statements
• OA2020; COAR2017 (2017)
• Dakar declaration on Open Science in Africa (2016)
• Open Data in a Big Data World Accord (2015)
• Open Science for the 21st century A declaration ofALL European Academies (2012)
• Salvador Declaration on Open Access Cape TownDeclaration (2010)
• Cape Town Open Education Declaration (2008)
• Kigali Declaration on the Development of anEquitable Information Society in Africa
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ASSAf Contributing to OA
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Financially Sustainable Publishing
• Owners are universities, societies – non-profit
• R 8 000 – R 11 000-00 per year per journal
• Expenses:• Server, IT support
• Copyeditor/Proofreader/Layout Editor
• Other – voluntarily contribution to science:• Editor
• Reviewers
• Authors
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ASSAf Evaluating OA journals
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ASSAf partnering with the AAUAfrican harvester of repositories
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Towards a SA Open Science Policy
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Open Science Defined
“Open Science moves beyond open access researcharticles, towards encompassing other research
objects such as data, software codes, protocols andworkflows. The intention is for people to use, re-useand distribute content without legal, technologicalor social restrictions. In some cases, Open Sciencealso entails the opening up of the entire research
process from agenda-setting to the dissemination offindings.” - Open and Collaborative Science in
Development Network project, funded by IDRC.
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Open Data, Open Science andthe Research Lifecycle (Foster)
https://www.rri-tools.eu/-/research-lifecycle-enhanced-by-an-open-science-by-default-workflow
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About the African Open SciencePlatform (AOSP)
• Funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF)(SA Dept. of Science and Technology)
• Directed by CODATA (ICSU)
• Managed by Academy of Science of South Africa(ASSAf)
• Through ASSAf hosting ICSU Regional Office for Africa(ICSU ROA)
Strengthen international science for the benefit of societyby promoting improved scientific and technical data
management and use.
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Accord: Open Data in a Big DataWorld
• Values of open data inemerging scientific culture ofbig data
• Need for an internationalframework
• Proposes comprehensive set ofprinciples
• Provides framework & plan forAfrican data science capacitymobilization initiative
• Proposes African Platform
Call to Endorse
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4 Focus Areas
• Promote development & adoption of data policies,principles, practices, standards
• Determine infrastructure available
• Address issues of incentives, best practice, benefits
• Foster training & capacity building activities
Create an awareness, stimulate dialogue (frontiers)
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Key Stakeholders
• Global Network of Science Academies (IAP)
• International Council for Science (ICSU)• Regional Office for Africa (ROA)• Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA)• World Data System (WDS)
• The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
• Research Data Alliance (RDA)
• Association of African Universities (AAU)
• Network of African Science Academies (NASAC)
• African Research Councils (incl. DIRISA, funders)
• African Universities
• African Governments
• NRENs (Internet Service Providers for Education)
• Other
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Sci-GaIA Open Science Platform
http://www.sci-gaia.eu/osp/
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African Open Science Example
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Challenges faced in terms of Data
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https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/12/scientific-data-lost-forever/356422/
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http://retractionwatch.com/2016/11/26/weekend-reads-fake-scientists-fake-research-major-evils-of-modern-research/
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“I have temporarily retracted the study thanks to the alert fromPierre. The blog is not peer reviewed, it is intended for early release
of research that will later be sent for peer review.”
https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2017/03/21/apc-comparison-2010-and-2016/
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http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cdc-scientist-admits-destroyed-data-showed-vaccines-caused-autism-children/#cZz6lzEjivPoTZ80.99
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Managing Intellectual Property
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Protecting Privacy
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/security/202208-massive-flaw-in-old-ster-kinekor-website-leaked-clients-private-data.html
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Power & Internet Access(Infrastructure)
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Incentives for Data Sharing
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Capacity Building
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Stimulate Dialogue
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Value of Data in Business
$53.8 billionMark Zuckerberg
$498 billionLary Page
$1.66 billionJack Dorsey
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Value of an African Platform (1)
• Collective view of Open Science activities
• Create awareness
• Showcase African research
• Contribute to global knowledgebase
• Increase return on investment (re-use)
• Identify lack of data/opportunities/gaps
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Value of an African Platform (2)
• Identify needs e.g. skills development,infrastructure, policy formulation, etc.
• Act as conduit for links with international open dataand open science programmes and standards
• Cross-use data across disciplines/studies
• Establish relationships between data
• Manage Intellectual Property (IP)
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Value of an African Platform (3)
• Make data more discoverable/visible (metadata)
• Encourage collaboration between scientific &private sectors, citizens
• Participate in collective problem-solving
• Allow verification of existing data, predict trends
• Accelerate discovery – speed is everything (e.g.outbreaks)
• Attract funders
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AOSP Actions & Deliverables
4 Pillars:
• Policies: Policy Framework
• Incentives: Guidelines
• Capacity Building: Curriculum & Training
• Infrastructure: Roadmap
Create awareness, stimulate dialogue, connectpeople & projects
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Events
• Science Forum South Africa 2016
• Sci-GaIA User Forum and Conference 2017, South Africa
• World Data Systems Meeting, Grenoble, France (April2017)
• 14th General Conference of the AAU (June 2017), Ghana
• Botswana, Madagascar National Open Science Forum
• PKP Conference on publishing in the Global South, Canada
• CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School (July2017), Italy
• UbuntuNet Connect 2017, Ethiopia
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Closing Remarks
• Collaborate & learn – strength in diversity
• Data the new “gold” – predict trends (Prof JosephWafula)
• Trusted data managed in trusted way
• Exploit data for the benefit of society (Min NalediPandor)
• Tell the African story, in an African way
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Acknowledgments
• SA Dept. of Science & Technology
• National Research Foundation (NRF)
• ICSU & CODATA
• All African partners