Towards a Global Consensus on Open Science Inputs from Asia-Pacific region to the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science Asia-Pacific Online Regional Consultation UNESCO OFFICE JAKARTA ASIA AND PACIFIC REGIONAL BUREAU FOR SCIENCES SEPTEMBER 2020 Towards a Global Consensus on Open Science Inputs from Asia-Pacific region to the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science Asia-Pacific Online Regional Consultation Tuesday, 15 September 2020, 12:00-15:00 (GMT+7) Open Science is a global movement The recent response of the scientific aiming to make science more accessible, community to the COVID-19 pandemic democratic, transparent and beneficial has demonstrated how open science can for all. Driven by unprecedented accelerate scientific solutions for a advances in our digital world, the global challenge. The genetic sequence transition to Open Science allows of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was posted in an scientific information, data and outputs open access repository and made freely to be more widely accessible and available for all researchers. To more readily shared with the active accelerate our common understanding engagement of all relevant stakeholders. of the global threat and finding the treatment, scientists are sharing their By encouraging science to be more protocols and results of their research in connected to societal needs and by open access journals and open data promoting equal opportunities for all, repositories. Many international Open Science can be a true game- publishers have made COVID-19 research changer in pressing planetary and socio- content freely accessible and technology economic challenges and bridging the leaders have joined in creating the science, technology and innovation (STI) needed infrastructure for open access gaps between and within countries. databases, containing valuable information on scientific and technological advancements. BACKGROUND 2 In spite of the encouraging open UNESCO Recommendations are legal science actions in response to COVID- instruments in which “the General 19, and the growing number of national Conference formulates principles and and regional initiatives, there is norms for the international regulation of currently no international framework any particular question and invites nor common policy guidance for Open Member States to take whatever Science globally. UNESCO, as the legislative or other steps may be United Nations Agency with a mandate required in conformity with the for Science, is the legitimate global constitutional practice of each State and organization enabled to build a the nature of the question under coherent vision of Open Science and a consideration to apply the principles and shared set of overarching principles norms aforesaid within their respective and shared values. That is why, at the territories”. Emanating from the 40th session of UNESCO’s General Organization’s supreme governing body, Conference, 193 Member States tasked recommendations are intended to the Organization with the development influence the development of national of an international standard-setting laws and practices. instrument on Open Science in the form of a UNESCO Recommendation The Recommendation on Open Science on Open Science. is expected to define shared values and principles for Open Science, and identify concrete measures on Open Access and Open Data, with proposals to bring citizens closer to science and commitments facilitating the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge around the world. CO-ORGANIZERS UNESCO Office Jakarta, the Regional Science Bureau for Asia and the Pacific is organizing this online meeting in collaboration with the UNESCO category 2 centre, the International Science, Technology and Innovation Centre for South-South Cooperation under the auspices of UNESCO (ISTIC). 3 OBJECTIVES To advance the Open Science discussion in the global context, it is important to take stock of the different regional perspectives. The online regional consultation for Asia and the Pacific is part of a series of regional consultations aimed at building a global consensus on open science. It will provide a platform to provide inputs from Asia and Pacific scientists, science funders, policy makers, innovators, publishers and other concerned stakeholders to the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. The specific objectives of this online regional consultation are to: Bring together the scientists, policy makers and the main stakeholders of Open Science in Asia and the Pacific region. Advance the discussion from the Asia and the Pacific perspective on the meaning, scope and opportunities of Open Science between policy makers, experts from academia, private sector and citizens. Identify the key aspects of Open Science that are most relevant in the global context and should be addressed by the UNESCO Recommendation Share lessons learned from development and implementation of the Asia and Pacific Open Science strategies, policies and other initiatives. Identify the key challenges and necessary infrastructures for Open Science with suggestions on how to overcome them. Identify areas for international collaboration and networking to advance Open Science globally. This online meeting is envisaged to bring together some hundred multi stakeholders participants and will be held in English on Zoom Meeting platform based on the draft structure and draft agenda below. EXPECTED OUTCOME Lessons learnt and experiences of Asia and the Pacific stakeholders on the development and implementation of Open Science strategies, policies and other initiatives will be shared taking cognizance of the key challenges and required infrastructures for Open Science with suggestions on how to overcome them, as well as areas for international collaboration and networking to advance Open Science globally. Key inputs derived from this regional consultation will inform the overall UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science 4 MEETING AGENDA TIME ACTIVITY SPEAKER UNESCO Prof Shahbaz Khan 1 2 : 0 0 - 1 2 : 1 0 Opening Remarks Group Picture Prof Halimaton ISTIC Hamdan 1 2 : 1 0 - 1 2 : 2 0 Summary of regional inputs Prof Shahbaz Khan 1 2 : 2 0 - 1 2 : 3 0 Update on the draft recommendation and Dr Peggy Oti-Boateng key elements Presentations on main aspects of Open Science Moderated by Prof Shahbaz Khan Dr Juncai Ma Asia and the Pacific members of the Mr Kazuhiro Hayashi Stakeholders Advisory perspectives and Committee for existing initiatives UNESCO Prof Noorsaadah Abd. Recommendations Rahman 1 2 : 3 0 - 1 3 : 2 0 on Open Science Dr Eunjung Shin Dr Chang Liu Other regional IKCEST initiatives and existing platforms on Open Science ISC-ROAP Dr Mazlan Othman Integration of social science with the Prof Zabta Shinwari natural science in Open Science 5 MEETING AGENDA TIME ACTIVITY SPEAKER Open discussion / Q&A session Moderated by Prof Shahbaz Khan Questions from the panelists, and from the audience 1 3 : 2 0 - 1 4 : 4 0 Feedback on elements of the recommendation the draft outline and key elements of the Open Science. Responding to the regional needs or integrating the regional considerations into the draft outline Conclusion and way forward for AP region Final comments from the region and the experts Moderated by Prof Shahbaz Khan 1 4 : 4 0 - 1 5 : 0 0 Prof Halimaton ISTIC Hamdan Closing remarks UNESCO Dr Shamila Nair-Bedouelle 6 SPEAKER Name: Dr. Shamila Nair-Bedouelle Country: France Organization: UNESCO Head Quarter Paris Position: Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences Expertise Background: Life science, Pharmaceutical science Shamila Nair-Bedouelle took up her duties as Assistant Director-General for the Natural Sciences at UNESCO on 1 April 2019.She comes to UNESCO from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), where she had served as Director of the OzonAction programme since 2012. Responsible for implementing the Multilateral Fund for the Montreal Protocol, she had coordinated a unique network of 147 national Ozone Action offices, providing developing countries with scientific and technical advice as to which alternative technologies to choose to the chemical substances depleting the Ozone Layer. A strong advocate for enhancing womens’ role in science and engineering, she launched UNEP’s first training programme for women technicians. Shamila Nair-Bedouelle holds a PhD in Life Sciences from the University of Capetown in South Africa. She pursued her research career at the Institut Pasteur in Paris from January 1992 onwards then within the pharmaceutical industry at the MIT University Park in Boston, USA, from January 1994 until January 1996, when she integrated the French National Institue for Medical Research (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale, INSERM). She has published in numerous scientific journals and is the co- inventor of several patents.Dr Nair-Bedouelle has pursued her research interests in parallel to her career at the United Nations. She has been Director of Research at the University of Paris V in France since 2000 and was nominated First Class Director of Research at INSERM in 2017. 7 SPEAKER Name: Dr. Peggy Oti-Boateng Country: France Organization: UNESCO Head Quarter Paris Position: Director SC/PCB Expertise Background: Science Policy, Basic and Engineering Sciences Dr Peggy Oti-Boateng is the Director, Division of Science Policy and Capacity Building, (SC/PCB) Natural Science Sector at the UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France with the responsibility for providing leadership and foresight for global international scientific collaboration on science engineering