Name: Promoting Open Science in Africa
Start: 2016-03-15T09:00:00+00:00
End: 2016-03-15T19:00:00+00:00
Location: Le Ndiambour Hôtel

Promoting Open Science in Africa

Tuesday, 15 March 2016 - 09:00

Monday, 14 March 2016
Tuesday, 15 March 2016

09:00

09:00 - 09:15
Room: Salle Soweto
09:15
09:15 - 10:45
Room: Salle Soweto
Contributions

09:15 Large Data and Biomedical Computational Pipelines for Complex Diseases - Ezekiel Adebiyi (Covenant University Bioinformatics Research Group (CUBRe), Nigeria)

09:45 Computational Complexity and Resource needs in Genomic Data Analysis - Chiekh Loucoubar (Group of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Modeling (G4 BBM) Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Senegal)

10:15 The West Africa-Michigan CHARTER in GEOHealth: The Role of ICT - Fobil Julius (School of Public Health, University of Ghana)
10:45 Coffee break, Networking & Group Photo
Coffee break, Networking & Group Photo
10:45 - 11:15
Room: Salle Soweto
11:15
11:15 - 12:45
Room: Salle Soweto
Contributions

11:15 Statistical Kinetic Data Analysis and Scientific Graphing - Chukwuemeka Isanbor (Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, University of Lagos)

11:45 Numerical Simulations in Climate Modelling : Requirements and Challenges - Abdoulaye Deme (Laboratoire des Sciences de l'atmosphère et des Océans, Université Gaston Berger, Senegal)

12:15 Advances in Environmental Monitoring - The WIMEA-ICT Experience - Björn Pehrson (KTH, Sweden) Gbenga Jegede (Atmospheric Physics Research Group (APRG), OAU, Nigeria) Joseph Matiko (Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology)
12:45 Lunch & Networking
Lunch & Networking
12:45 - 14:00
Room: Salle Soweto
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Salle Soweto
Contributions

14:00 The Open Science Vision - Roberto Barbera (Technical Coordinator, Sci-GaIA Project, Univeristy of Catania, Italy)

14:10 A Simple Basis for Digital Data Governance - Matthew Buys (Regional Director, ORCID)

14:30 Developing Science Gateways and Data Repositories - The Sci-GaIA Training Workshops - Roberto Barbera (Technical Coordinator, Sci-GaIA Project, Univeristy of Catania, Italy)

14:50 A Case Study of Open Science: The REPAST Infection Model - Simon Taylor (Coordinator, Sci-GaIA Project, Brunel University London, UK)

15:10 MAGIC - Colaboration tools and communities/group sharing for science applications - Gustavo Adolfo Garcia Plaza (Technical Manager, RedCLARA)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Salle Soweto
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Salle Soweto
Contributions

16:00 The Impact of National Research and Education Networks on Science in Africa - Omo Oaiya (Chief Technology Officer, WACREN)

16:20 Sharing value-added services for Research and Education communities - Ognjen Prnjat (European and Regional e-Infrastructure manager, GRNET)

16:40 Brainstorming session

17:10 Summarising the key points from the Brainstorming session
17:30

17:30 - 18:00
Room: Salle Soweto

18:00

18:00 - 19:00
Room: Salle Soweto