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Open Science @ “Grenzwertig”

Offene Wissenschaft: Potenziale und Grenzen


Digitale Technologien bringen eine neue Dimension in den Wissensschaffungsprozess. Wissenschaftlerinnen können über Grenzen und Zeitzonen hinweg zusammenarbeiten. Wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse können online zugänglich gemacht werden. Die Grenzen zwischen Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft, und Gesellschaft sind nicht mehr starr.  Aber was passiert wenn Wissenschaft transparent wird? Was sind die Potenziale und wo sind die Grenzen?

The Open Knowledge Festival 2014 is starting soon!

To create societies where everyone has both access to key information and the ability to use it to understand and shape their lives, we must build knowledge into the heart of all of our activities. This is a big task which requires not just a global shift in mindset, but also that we build the tools and communities to make such a society possible. We invite you to join us from 15-17 July in Berlin for OKFestival 2014 as we consider how to translate Open Minds to Open Action.

Global Research Council: Action Plan towards Open Access to Publications

endorsed during the 2nd Annual Global Meeting, 27 – 29 May 2013, Berlin / Germany. The proposed activities aim at raising awareness for open access, at promoting and supporting open access, and at assessing the implementation of the actions suggested. The action plan is designed to take into account that participants in the GRC come from various backgrounds, have various degrees of expertise in dealing with open access, and have different remits. Thus, funding agencies need to consider which of the proposed activities are appropriate to be taken up by (possibly consortia of) participants in the GRC.

Conference re:publica 13 – Berlin, Germany.

From 6 – 8 May 2013, re:publica will be turning the digital society IN/SIDE/OUT for the seventh time with the help of a wide range of speakers and perspectives. At the same time, it invites all guests to turn their output into input and vice-versa.
The Conference is questioning the following:
While we were always sure that at some point everyone would use the mechanisms offered by Web2.0, the question remains: Who profits in the end? Will citizens embrace obligations of governments and businesses to become more transparent, while at the same time tolerate the non-transparency of those companies which form the structures of the internet? Or will we soon pull the plug and return to a place where privacy is tangible again? Will we replace the INternet with an OUTernet?
See the program here. Livestream here. See also this interview on the occasion of re:publica with Raegan MacDonald, canadian data activist and senior policy analyst at access - mobilizing for global digital freedom. FAZ online. In German.

Developing Blogpost: Podiumsdiskussion zu Open Science in Berlin (#oaweek)

Developing Blogpost: Podiumsdiskussion zu Open Science in Berlin (#oaweek)

Nice summary of yesterday’s talk ‘Open Science - Chancen und Herausforderungen der digitalen Wissenschaft’.

Listen also to the audio recording (in German).

See also this article on yesterday’s talk at HU Berlin. 

International Open Access Week 2012

International Open Access Week 2012

On Oct. 23rd 2012, 6pm, Berlin, Germany:

Panel Discussion on Open Science, Humboldt University Berlin.

On Oct. 24th 2012, 10-11:30 am, Republic of Macedonia: 

Open Access Week will be celebrated for the 3-rd time at the Faculty of Philology “Blaze Koneski”/Faculty of Philosophy. As always, the lecture will be open and public and live on the Ustream open access channel @ http://www.ustream.tv/channel/open-access