6th CERN–UNESCO–NRF Open Science School, Pretoria, South Africa, 2025

Contribution List

19. Welcome from NRF

Dr Gugu Moche (NRF)

17/02/2025, 09:00

Opening session

20. Welcome from CERN

Mr Jens Vigen (CERN)

17/02/2025, 09:20

Opening session

22. Welcome from UNESCO

Tiffany Straza (UNESCO)

17/02/2025, 09:40

Opening session

21. Welcome from CODATA

Prof. Daisy Selematsela (CODATA)

17/02/2025, 10:00

Opening session

23. Keynote: Fueling the new agenda for African languages x AI: Everything, everywhere, all at once

Vukosi Marivate (University of Pretoria)

17/02/2025, 10:20

Opening session

26. Group Photo

17/02/2025, 10:40

Opening session

25. Presentation of participants

17/02/2025, 10:55

Opening session

24. Launch of the training

Mr Jens Vigen (CERN)

17/02/2025, 11:40

Opening session

34. Zenodo

Lars Holm Nielsen (CERN)

18/02/2025, 09:30

Morning session

35. Ubuntu Open Science Cloud

Harold Bowa (UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networks)

18/02/2025, 10:10

Morning session

36. Redalyc

Prof. Arianna Becerril García (Redalyc)

18/02/2025, 10:50

Morning session

29. Discussions

18/02/2025, 11:30

Morning session

30. UNESCO and open science

Tiffany Straza (UNESCO)

19/02/2025, 09:00

Morning session

32. CERN open science policy

Dr Kamran Naim (CERN)

19/02/2025, 09:30

Morning session

39. SA Open Science Policy draft (and process)

Prof. Irvy (Igle) Gledhill (U. Witwatersrand, South Africa)

19/02/2025, 10:00

Morning session

33. Discussion

19/02/2025, 10:30

Morning session

27. Open Access policy and implementation at CERN

Anne Gentil-Beccot (CERN)

20/02/2025, 09:30

Morning session

38. UNESCO study on predatory publishers

Tiffany Straza (UNESCO)

20/02/2025, 10:10

Morning session

28. Spotting the wolves: Protecting your research (from predatory publishers)

Susan Veldsman (ASSAf)

20/02/2025, 10:50

Morning session

The Academy of Science of South Africa's study on predatory publishers in the continent.

37. DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals

Ina Smith (ASSAf)

20/02/2025, 11:30

Morning session

A directory of certified journals, more African journals should be put forward for inclusion in the directory. Ina Smith ina@doaj.org is DOAJ senior ambassador for Southern Africa. Ambassador for other regions can be found from https://doaj.org/about/ambassadors/.

40. Slide presentation

20/02/2025, 13:00

Workshop

41. Exercise

20/02/2025, 16:00

Workshop

Small group activity: Use the blank negotiation planning template to strategize your negotiations for the following scenario:

You have a title by title subscription with a mid to large sized commercial publisher, your subscription includes some titles but not all, and the subjects are interdisciplinary.

The Publisher has provided a proposal with an OA publication component that...

9. ASSAF: study on predatory publishers in the continent Predatory publishers

10. Discussion

14. Discussions

18. Discussions

2. Group Executive: Digital Transformation

Dr Gugu Moche (NRF)

31. NRF open science policy

Morning session

8. Open Access policy and implementation at CERN

Anne Gentil-Beccot (CERN)

12. Open Science at CERN

Kamran Naim (CERN)

13. Open Science at NRF

17. Redalyc

Prof. Arianna Becerril García

4. TBC

Prof. Daisy Selematsela (CODATA)

6. TBC

Vukosi Marivate (University of Pretoria)

7. Technical launch TBC

Mr Jens Vigen (CERN), Lars Holm Nielsen (CERN)

16. Ubuntu Open Science Cloud

Prof. Madara Ogot (Ubuntu)

11. UNESCO Open Science (TBC)

Tiffany Straza (UNESCO)

3. Welcome from CERN

Mr Jens Vigen (CERN)

5. Welcome from UNESCO

Lidia Brito (UNESCO)

15. Zenodo

Lars Holm Nielsen (CERN)