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About OpenCon: conference, satellites & communityOpenCon is more than a conference. It’s a platform for the next generation to learn about Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data, develop critical skills, and catalyze action toward a more open system for sharing the world’s information—from scholarly and scientific research, to educational materials, to digital research data.. |
Organized by the Right to Research Coalition & SPARC
OpenCon is organized by SPARC, the Right to Research Coalition, and a Organizing Committee of students and early career academic professionals from around the world. You can support OpenCon by .
We’re working to make online research & educational materials free to read, share, and modify for all.
Research Papers
We believe in Open Access—the free, immediate, online availability of research articles—to ensure that anyone with an Internet connection can read, use, and build upon research findings.
Research Data
We advocate for Open Research Data so that anyone can freely download, copy, analyze and re-process data. We believe Open Data encourages transparency and collaboration among researchers, accelerates discovery, and allows the public to engage with publicly funded data.
Education
We believe in Open Education to maximize the power of the Internet to make educational materials more affordable, more accessible and more effective for learners. We advocate for Open Education so that teachers can share, adapt, and build off existing materials.
What the community is saying about OpenCon
OpenCon 2014 was the best conference I have ever been to. The presentations, speeches, and workshops as well as all the connections I made at OpenCon educated me about the exciting developments occurring not only in Open Educational Resources, but Open Access and Open Data as well. I left informed and inspired to continue on as an open advocate. Full of word class attendees, organizers, and presenters, OpenCon was a once in a life time opportunity that I will never forget.
Chardaye Bueckert, President of the Simon Fraser Student Society
OpenCon was the most energetic and intellectually stimulating conference I have attended. Meeting people so immersed in Open Access, Open Data and Open Education was inspiring and has since motivated myself and Martin Bentley to start Open Access South Africa: A Student Network. I am honoured to be a part of a community so fully committed to access to education and research across the world.
Uvania Naidoo, Open Access South Africa Co-founder, MA Candidate (UCT)
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OpenCon 2018 Switzerland
What is OpenCon?
OpenCon is a platform for the next generation to learn about Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data, develop critical skills, and catalyze action toward a more open system for sharing the world’s information – from scholarly and scientific research, to educational materials, to digital research data.
Over the years, OpenCon has inspired a number of researchers, librarians, educators and members of civil society to advocate for a more open and transparent access to scientific information. It is an event where individuals involved in projects advancing the state of open science meet to discuss best practice and share experience with others.
Why OpenCon Switzerland?
We believe that Switzerland would greatly benefit from a similar forum in the country, and therefore we plan to organise a OpenCon satellite event in Bern. The goal is to bring together open science practictioners, together with individuals who advocate for openness in other contexts. There was never an OpenCon satellite in Switzerland and we beleive such a meeting will be crucial to catalyse a conversation around open issues at the national level and give the opportunity for the open advocates active in Switzerland to meet and connect with the international community.
This event will be planned with the help of the organisations behind the annual OpenCon eventm something that has been done in multiple places in the past. Since 2014, over 4000 people have attended over 70 satellite events in 32 countries. Instructions on how to host an OpenCon satellite event are available here.
Who Should Attend?
OpenCon is mainly targeted at the next-generation of open science advocates. They can be early career researchers - doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, young PIs - actively promoting openness in their research field, librarians promoting openness in their institutions, publishers who have a strong open access vision, policy advisors and administrators involved in setting the open science or open government agendas, and advocates for open culture from the civil society.
Program Overview
Friday 21 September
- Welcome address (2x5 min): Organisers, SNSF
- Keynotes (2x30 min): 2 inspirational talks describing projects leveraging openness
- Icebreaker (2x15 min): participants introduction and networking
- Panel discussions (3x60 min): around 3 themes
- Short talks (7 min each)
- Discussions (35 min)
- Workshop (60 min)
Saturday 22 September
- Unconference: Discussions organised by participants, planned according to popularity
- Do-a-thon: day-long hands-on activity on some of the projects presented in short talks the day before.
- Tutorials (max 45 minutes): short (practical) introduction to a tool or a concept any participant wants to share with the others.
Detailed Program
Friday 21 September
09:00 - Registration
09:15 - Welcome
- Organisers (5min)
- Hosts (5min)
09:30 Keynote 1
10:00 Keynote 2
10:30 Coffee Break (10:30-10:45)
11:00 Ice-breaking session 1
11:15 Ice-breaking session 2
11:30 Panel 1: Overview - What is the status-quo in Switzerland
- 3 short talks (25min)
- Discussion - How do we move forward (35min) - In preparation of the workshop
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Workshop
- Design Thinking for Open Research and Education (slides)
14:30 Panel 2: Open Research - Quality over Quantity
- 3 short talks (25min)
- Discussion (35min) - How openness can improve the quality of research
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Panel 3: The Limit of Openness - Where does it stop?
- 3 short talks (25min)
- Discussion (35min) - Legal, technical and social limits to openness
17:00 Closing and announcement for next day
- Organisers (10min)
17:30 Drinks (@ReitschuleBern or turnhalle.ch)
19:30 Dinner
Saturday 22 September
9:00 Welcome and Coffee
10:00 Warm-up and short pitches
11:00 Start of the day
19:00 Official end of the event
Language
The lingua franca of this event will be English, but we encourage participants to speak their own language if more comfortable.
Registration
Free (small registration fee will be reimbursed after participation)
More Information and Contact
Get in touch with Joao Martins (joao.martins@snf.ch) or with Luc Henry (luc.henry@epfl.ch).
OpenCon 2018 LatAm
II Edición de OpenCon LatAm 2018: “Abrimos puertas” se celebrará el 29 de Septiembre de 2018 en la Universidad Metropolitana para la Educación y el Trabajo (UMET) en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (Argentina). Hay importantes charlas, debates y talleres sobre Acceso Abierto, Educación Abierta y Datos Abiertos. Debajo pueden encontrar nuestro programa preliminar y reservar su lugar para asistir al evento aquí (RSVP).
Para conocer los detalles de la llamada a presentaciones y proponer una plática o desconferencia, haz clic abajo en 'Submit'. Dudas y comentarios pueden comunicarse al correo openconlatam@gmail.com.
La conferencia anual OpenCon global convoca a los estudiantes más prometedores y profesionales académicos en primeros años de carrera que impulsan el acceso abierto, datos abiertos, recursos educativos abiertos, y muchos otros aspectos de la cultura científica y de educación abierta.
La representación latinoamericana en la comunidad OpenCon ha ido creciendo desde el año 2014. En OpenCon 2016, tuvimos el mayor número de participantes latinoamericanos hasta la fecha y por primera vez pudimos realizar una sesión totalmente en español y portugués. Tuvimos participantes de 10 países: Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, México, Nicaragua, Perú y Puerto Rico. El resultado de esa sesión fue la formación de un comité internacional de organización dedicado a promover una reunión satélite regional- OpenCon Latinoamérica (OpenCon LatAm). Se realizó por primera vez la OpenCon 2017 LatAm en la UNAM (México). Ahora, vamos por la 2da. edición de OpenCon LatAm 2018: “Abrimos puertas”en Buenos Aires (Argentina).
Nuestra meta con OpenCon LatAm es reunir a estudiantes, profesionales de la carrera temprana, profesores, financiadores y más, que enfrentan estos desafíos todos los días y están listos para hacer una lluvia de ideas de soluciones y abogar por el cambio a nivel institucional, nacional e internacional. Nuestro objetivo es forjar nuevas conexiones entre organizaciones en cada uno de nuestros países para coordinar los esfuerzos mundiales de promoción. Además, esperamos que nuestro evento conduzca a colaboraciones transfronterizas que beneficiarán a los sectores de ciencia y tecnología de cada país y aumentarán la visibilidad de la investigación latinoamericana.
Si quiere presentar una propuesta para la la mesa Universidad Abierta, ingresa AQUÍ.
Si desde su institución o en lo personal quiere contribuir con la organización donando dinero, por favor, ingresar AQUÍ.
OpenCon 2018 Accra
Open Access Week, is a global event an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.
The objective of the event is to create awareness about open access week and also build momentum around the topic of open access, data and open education which is not very rampant in a county like Ghana and also use the opportunity to connect with the community to engage in outreach & Collaboration tools for events, networks, campaigns, and research, development, and sharing of best practices on open access and open education.