Open Science for Africa - African Union Commission-UNESCO Forum FORUM WITH THE AFRICAN UNION’S SPECIALIZED TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Thursday 12 December 2019African Union Headquarters, Addis Ababa Background Open communication of the...
Introducing the CODATA-RDA Schools of Research Data Science The ever-accelerating volume and variety of data being generated is having a huge impact of a wide variety of research disciplines, from the sciences to the humanities: the international, collective ability...
Pretoria 2020 University of Pretoria – Department of Information Science in collaboration with DIRISA, SADiLaR and NeDICC Duration: 13–24 January 2020Location: Pretoria, South Africa The school provides early career researchers (M-level to postdoc) with the...
San José 2019 This school provides early career researchers (at MSc-level to 3 years after their PhD) from the Latin American Region with the necessary set of foundational data science skills to enable them to analyse their data in an efficient and effective manner...
CODATA Policy Reports This page lists some of the major data policy reports that CODATA has produced or to which CODATA has made a major contribution. Some of these reports are the direct outputs of CODATA activities or collaborations; some were enabled by significant...
African Open Science Platform: Strategy and Vision The first draft of this strategy for the African Open Science Platform (AOSP) was developed as a result of an expert group meeting held in Pretoria in March 2018. It then formed the discussion document for a...
African Open Science Platform 1. The Digital Revolution and its Implications The means by which information and knowledge are acquired, stored and communicated have always been powerful drivers of human material and social progress. These processes have been...
Redefinition of the International System of Units (SI) based on the CODATA Fundamental Constant The General Conference of Weights and Measures will meet in Paris to vote on whether to re-define the International System of Units (SI) for the kilogram, ampere, kelvin...
The CODATA International Data Policy Committee (IDPC) is the key instrument by which CODATA pursues its mission of promoting effective and appropriate policies for Open Science and FAIR data. A subsidiary task is to support the other strategic objectives of CODATA. ...
Past Members Members 2023-25 Mr. Francis P. Crawley, GCPA-SIDCER, Belgium, science policy, research ethics, research integrity Mr John Wise, Pistoia Alliance, United Kingdom, Data Governance – FAIR – pre-competitive collaboration Dr. Jian Liu, Southern Marine...