ISLAMABAD: COMSTECH–the OIC Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation in collaboration with UNESCO will arrange a webinar on `Open Science’ tomorrow(Thursday).
According to an official of COMSTECH, the webinar would be held at COMSTECH Secretariat, and would open to students, researchers, young scientists, and academicians from the OIC member states and other countries.
Open Science is about global scientific collaboration. This collaboration needs to be conducted under the principles of trust, equity, transparency and responsible research conduct at a global scale. It is an enabler of collaboration without borders. It involves both human values and technological considerations.
This collaboration is achieved and facilitated by sharing the outputs of research, which should be open and freely accessible. Sharing is performed either directly by accessing and reusing the outputs, or indirectly when reuse adapts these outputs to produce knowledge in domains not imagined by those who produced them, maybe decades later.
Global collaborators come from many cultures, speak thousands of languages and live and work under a wide variety of administrative, legal and financial frameworks. In the open science ecosystem, science knows no borders – geographical, temporal nor cultural.
Prof. Dr. Zabta Khan Shinwari from Pakistan Academy of Sciences, Islamabad, Prof. Dr. Shahbaz Khan: Director and UNESCO Representative to the People’s Republic of China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Japan, Mongolia and the Republic of Korea and Prof. Dr. Claudia Bauzer Medeiros: Institute of Computing, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil and Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC), Brazil will be the speakers.