TOPIC 03: Open Science and Research
Science is opening up in ways not imagined 25 years ago. Citizens are increasingly involved in the scientific process, data and software resulting from research are more and more shared, and open access to the publications resulting from research is profoundly influencing the landscape of scientific publishing, while in turn opening up avenues for new innovative research. We look forward to discussing the impact of these changes for researchers and scientists.
Main Speakers:
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John Ellis, CERN / King‘s College London
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Victoria Stodden, Columbia University
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Ernst Hafen, CSO, healthbank / ETH Zurich
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Kaitlin Thaney, Director, Mozilla Science Lab
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Puneet Kishor, Project Coordinator for Science and Data, Creative Commons
Programme Advisors:
- Francois Grey, Citizen Cyberscience Centre/ University of Geneva
- Ross Mounce, University of Bath / Panton Fellow
- Michelle Brook, Community Coordinator, Open Education
Session 1 From Open Data to Open Science: Policy, Literacy and Citizen Engagement – Talks
Tuesday 17 September, 14.45 – 16:00 @ Main Stage Room 2
Moderator: Francois Grey, Citizen Cyberscience Centre/ University of Geneva
Talks:
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Why Science is an Open Endeavor – Victoria Stodden, Professor of Statistics, Columbia University
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Open Health – The Citizen’s Revolution – Ernst Hafen, CSO, Healthbank / ETH Zurich
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Upping our digital literacy – Kaitlin Thaney, Director, Mozilla Science Lab
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Introducing CC Science Affiliates Network – Puneet Kishor, Project Coordinator for Science and Data, Creative Commons
CERN: Opening Particle Physics and the Higgs Boson to the world – John Ellis, CERN / King‘s College London
Tuesday 17 September, 18:00 – 18:30 @ Main Stage Room 2
Session 3 Open Technology and Research – Cross-disciplinary short talks session
Wednesday 18 September, 10:30 – 11:15 @ Room 13, Floor 2
Moderator: Pieter Colpaert, University of Ghent
Talks:
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Bringing the Open Source revolution to Open Data – James Smith, Web Developer, Open Data Institute
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dat: if git was designed for tabular data – Max Ogden, Open Web Programmer
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Open Science – Kamila Markram, Frontiers
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Leveraging open scientific data using R – Karthik Ram, Developer, rOpenSci
Additional Workshops and Satellite Events on Monday 16 and Thursday 19 September
In addition to the main programme we are holding a number of workshops, panel discussions, hackathons and satellite events on the pre-conference and post-conference days – Monday 16 and Thursday 19 September which you are invited to join.
Session A Frictions. Collaborative creation of knowledge vs. practices in trade and commerce. The example of Open Hardware – Workshop
Monday 16 September, 14.00 – 17:00 @ Room 7, Floor 2
Coordinators: Peter Troxler (Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences), Dannie Jost (World Trade Institute), Javier Serrano (CERN)
Session B Open and Citizen Science in the heart of Europe – Workshop
Thursday 19 September, 10:00 – 17:00 @ Centre Universitaire d’Informatique Université de Genève, Auditorium, Ground Floor
Coordinators: Stefan Kasberger (Open Knowledge Foundation Austria) and Rayna Stamboliyska (Open Knowledge Foundation France), in collaboration with Daniel Lombraña González (Citizen Cyberscience Center / Citizen Cyberlab) François Grey (Citizen Cyberscience Center / University of Geneva), Margaret Gold/ Brian Fuchs (Citizen Cyberlab / The Mobile Collective)
Session C Is Open Source Drug Discovery Practical? – Event
Thursday 19 September, 09:00 – 12:00 @ World Health Organization (WHO) – UNAIDS HQ, room D46031
Coordinator: Matthew Todd, University of Sidney
