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, March 15, 2016 - 9:00 AM

Monday, March 14, 2016
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

9:00 AM Welcome Address

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: Salle Soweto
9:15 AM Setting the Scene: African Biomedical and Health Research
9:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Salle Soweto
Contributions

9:15 AM Large Data and Biomedical Computational Pipelines for Complex Diseases - Ezekiel Adebiyi (Covenant University Bioinformatics Research Group (CUBRe), Nigeria)

9:45 AM 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 AM The West Africa-Michigan CHARTER in GEOHealth: The Role of ICT - Fobil Julius (School of Public Health, University of Ghana)
10:45 AM Coffee break, Networking & Group Photo
Coffee break, Networking & Group Photo
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: Salle Soweto
11:15 AM Setting the Scene: African Environmental and Chemical Research
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: Salle Soweto
Contributions

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

11:45 AM 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 PM 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 PM Lunch & Networking
Lunch & Networking
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Salle Soweto
2:00 PM Supporting the Scene: Towards Open Science in Africa
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Salle Soweto
Contributions

2:00 PM The Open Science Vision - Roberto Barbera (Technical Coordinator, Sci-GaIA Project, Univeristy of Catania, Italy)

2:10 PM A Simple Basis for Digital Data Governance - Matthew Buys (Regional Director, ORCID)

2:30 PM Developing Science Gateways and Data Repositories - The Sci-GaIA Training Workshops - Roberto Barbera (Technical Coordinator, Sci-GaIA Project, Univeristy of Catania, Italy)

2:50 PM A Case Study of Open Science: The REPAST Infection Model - Simon Taylor (Coordinator, Sci-GaIA Project, Brunel University London, UK)

3:10 PM MAGIC - Colaboration tools and communities/group sharing for science applications - Gustavo Adolfo Garcia Plaza (Technical Manager, RedCLARA)
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Salle Soweto
4:00 PM Brainstorming: Leveraging Open Science in Africa with ICT
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Salle Soweto
Contributions

4:00 PM The Impact of National Research and Education Networks on Science in Africa - Omo Oaiya (Chief Technology Officer, WACREN)

4:20 PM Sharing value-added services for Research and Education communities - Ognjen Prnjat (European and Regional e-Infrastructure manager, GRNET)

4:40 PM Brainstorming session

5:10 PM Summarising the key points from the Brainstorming session
5:30 PM Workshop conclusions and Vote of thanks

5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Salle Soweto

6:00 PM Networking Reception

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Salle Soweto

Choose timezone