Workshops on Global Progress in Open Science Implementation and ICSTI Annual Conference 2022

Open Science policies and recommendations are rapidly evolving. The pace of change inspires and necessitates constant innovations in the tools, practices, and infrastructures used by organizations managing scientific and technical information (STI) to support the Open Science movement and comply with Open Science policy requirements. ICSTI’s 2022 Annual Conference will therefore focus on global progress in Open Science policy development & implementation.

At the conference, researchers, librarians, practitioners, infrastructure providers, policy makers, and other ICSTI-member and non-member stakeholders will share both recent Open Science policy developments and their effects on STI management, as well as new tools and recent technical achievements that better enable STI organizations to support Open Science.

The free workshops will take place on Thursday, December 1 and speaker will talk about projects and policy developments supporting the information management & services side of Open Science. 

Workshop 1 – 9:00 UTC (90 minutes) (view in your local time zone) 

• Dr. Shinichi Akaike, Director for Evidence-Based Policymaking and Integrated Strategy, Secretariat of Science, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan 
• Ron Dekker, Project Leader EOSC Future, Technopolis Group Belgium 
• Dr. Nokuthula Mchunu, Deputy Director, African Open Science Platform (AOSP) 
• Dr. Zhang Zhixiong, Vice Director, National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences 

Workshop 2 – 15:00 UTC (90 minutes) (view in your local time zone) 

• Vivian Hutchinson, Science Data Management Branch Chief, U.S. Geological Survey 
• Johan Rooryck, Executive Director, cOAlition S 
• Suthee (Peck) Sangiambut, Senior Advisor, Open Data Charter 
• Renee Venne, Acting Director, Library & Information Management Services, National Research Council – Canada 

The two workshop sessions are free to attend and open to non-ICSTI-members.