Open Data, Diversity and Collaboration in Action

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Description

As we enter the final decade of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, we have an opportunity to accelerate our progress towards this goal, by more rigorously collecting, analyzing and applying good-quality data to shape programmes that can bring us closer to ending access to digital divide in all its forms. Open data is a critical enabler. The session will bring together the open data community to learn, share, plan and collaborate on the future of open data in the context of COVID-19. The unique nature of the event is to enable participants from various interdisciplinary backgrounds to define strategies that advance open data globally and locally, with the vision that attendees will take their new insights back to their home institutions to grow a vibrant open data community. The session will include Keynote addresses, Q&A sessions and networking breaks

Type: Virtual workshop
Length: 60 minutes
Date:10th September
Duration: once
Language: English

Objectives
The workshop will address questions like;
Opportunities and challenges of Open data in different communities
Motivations of good data stewardship: champions or advisors?
How to get people involved and community building.

Materials and technical requirements
Zoom software
Google doc
Internet connection
Breakout sessions

Speakers
Name: Cassandra Gould Van Praag
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @cassgvp

Name: Sara El-Gebali
Email: [email protected]
Url(s): https://selgebali.gitbook.io/opencider/
Twitter: @yalahowy @OpenCIDER
GitHub: https://github.com/selgebali

Presenter
Name: Allan Ochola
Email: [email protected]
Url(s): https://www.linkedin.com/in/allan-ochola-bb4a2750/?originalSubdomain=ke
Twitter: @allanochola

Presenters bio
Cassandra Gould Van Praag
The main focus of my role is to generate opportunities for the research community to actively participate in and contribute to the open science infrastructure of Oxford Neuroscience, made available by awards to the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN), the MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit (BNDU) and the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). A large focus of this work is centred on supporting engagement with the WIN Open Neuroimaging Project.

Co-organizers
Sara El-Gebali
I am a Research Data Management Team Leader supporting the Scientific Infrastructures unit at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) and the founder of OpenCider (Open Computational Inclusion and Digital Equity Resource). I am a strong advocate for community building and the promotion of women and underrepresented minorities in STEM fields.
Allan Ochola
I am a graduate student from Kenya and open data advocate favouring writing reusable software frameworks to stimulate scientific research in the bioinformatics community and software development skills with a focus on development of software standards, software sustainability, software documentation while looking for strategies, best practices and methodologies that encourage collaborative software development.

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Session notes:

Date: 10-Sep-2020
Time: 60 minutes 13:30 EDT [UTC-04]

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• Don’t click the “end meeting button”. Leave the meeting by switching off mic and camera, and/or close your browser
• Raise hand function not great (no notification), please use the chat function
• Low bandwidth setting:
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  - Select "Data Savings"

1. Welcome:

• Please add number lines to Google Docs with a FireFox add-on or a Chrome extension.
• These notes are for you! Please add comments, +1s, gifs
• Do you have limited internet resources? Please let us know and we will aim to keep our video off and operate audio-only. Let us know anonymously 
(write in the google doc).

2. Code of Conduct reminder:

• Be respectful, honest, inclusive, accommodating, appreciative, and open to learning from everyone else.
• Do not attack, demean, disrupt, harass, or threaten others or encourage such behavior.
• See also: full Code of conduct refer to the organisers website https://ournetworks.ca/code-of-conduct/
• Issues: please report to conference organizers [email protected].

3. Goals of the call:

• To bring together an open data community to learn, share, plan and collaborate on the future of open data in the context of COVID-19.
• To share advice for successful open data participation.
• To enable participants from various interdisciplinary backgrounds to define strategies that advance open data globally and locally.

4. Introducing Keynote:

5. Keynote presentation:

• Slides: https://slides.com/cassgvp/deck-567d38
  Notes
• Takeaway 1: add a DOI to your code repository
• Takeaway 2: Use Open Source tools/applications to make your work more replicable

6. Q&A:

• Do you ever have to deal with data collection that has to be redacted because it has personal bio-data that is restricted by law? (EU) Have data sharing restrictions created complications in open science projects that you are aware of?
• Do you use any p2p protocols for sharing data?
• Loss of previously publicly available data has happened in some contexts. e.g. EPA data in US under current administration
• You mentioned incentives earlier Like, economic ones? Or what sorts are they?
• Attributions & acknowledgments Doi
• What legal processes do you have in place to prevent an 'Apple' (of BSD unix) coming in to use your work to create a powerful new platform and locking in their users of their product in an anti-competitive way while also making it very difficult for the consumers to leave?

7. Resources:

• OpenCIDER (Open Computational Inclusion and Digital Equity Resource) https://selgebali.gitbook.io/opencider/
• RDA COVID-19 Guidelines https://www.rd-alliance.org/group/rda-covid19-rda-covid19-omics-rda-covid19-epidemiology-rda-covid19-clinical-rda-covid19-0
• CODATA: Committee on Data of the International Science Council (ISC) https://codata.org/
• OPEN DATA 4 DEVELOPMENT
• FAIR: https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/
• Situated openness: https://ocsdnet.org
• UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: “strengthened global solidarity, focussed in particular on the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable and with the participation of all countries, all stakeholders and all people.
• Mozilla Open By Design strategy: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/05/15/whats-your-open-source-strategy-here-are-10-answers/
• Centre for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement (CSCCE): https://www.cscce.org
• Turing Way guidebook to reproducible, ethical, inclusive and collaborative data science https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/welcome
• https://github.com/ultush/ontario-trillium-foundation-grants
• Open Connect Kenya: https://lilian9.github.io/Open_Connect_Kenya/
• Towards global inclusivity in Open Science (15 min video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRwuOs0BA4I&t=1s
• Open Source Imaging Initiative: https://www.opensourceimaging.org - hardware and software projects, many of which are in collaboration with partners in the global south
• Africa Open Science & Hardware http://africaosh.com/
• http://africanopenscience.org.za/

8. Contact us:

• Sara: [email protected] , Twitter @yalahowy
• Cass: [email protected], Twitter @cassgvp
• Allan: [email protected], Twitter @allanochola

License:

This project is licensed under the terms of the CC-BY-4.0 license.

This session template is available on OpenCIDER