Towards a FAIRer World: Implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science to Address Global Challenges

Towards a FAIRer World: Implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science to Address Global Challenges

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 - Wed, 29 Mar 2023

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Organized by: UNESCO, the ISC Committee on Data and World Data System

The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (2021) provides an international framework for the global transformation of societies towards Open Science. It sets out the fundamental principles of human rights and ethics that define the leading role UNESCO has in ensuring science benefits all by promoting just and equitable access to knowledge and other products of the scientific endeavour. This symposium examines next steps in developing cooperative scientific, digital, and ethics frameworks for implementing the principles and values expressed in the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science while responding to the seven areas of action it sets out.

The need for Open Science to address global challenges, specifically in times of crisis and to accelerate progress towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, has been further highlighted by the UNESCO Executive Board at its 215th session in October 2022 and at the third Open Science Conference held at the United Nations Headquarters in February 2023.

The challenge remains as how to best harness the potential of Open Science for the benefit of humanity and how to ensure that the principles and values of Open Science, as defined in the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, are respected.

The International Science Council, supported by its two data organisations CODATA (the Committee on Data) and WDS (the World Data System), are among the key partners and stakeholders in the implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. They have played a leading role in developing international and multi-stakeholder cooperation by promoting Open Science incentivisation, capacity-building, education, and digital literacy as well as contributing to Open Science infrastructure and services.

UNESCO, ISC, CODATA and WDS have joined efforts to organise this one-day, hybrid symposium to explore the existing and most recent cooperative scientific, digital, and ethics frameworks for advancing the implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science across its Areas of Action, with the focus on:

  • Data Commons for Global Challenges, and
  • Open Science and data policy in times of crisis.

Registration

Register to attend the event onsite (at UNESCO, Paris): https://towardsafairerworld.eventbrite.com

Register to attend the event virtually: https://unesco-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pRzs8yvpTOqDk0Ry1Im2bA