Mode 

In-person 

Overview  

Open science is a set of principles and practices that aim to make scientific research from all fields accessible to everyone for the benefits of scientists and society as a whole, including increasing access to global scientific activity and outputs by practitioners from less resourced regions in the global south. It does so by: 

• Increasing scientific collaborations and sharing of information for the benefits of science and society; 
• Making multilingual scientific knowledge openly available, accessible and reusable for everyone; and 
• Opening the processes of scientific knowledge creation, evaluation and communication to societal actors beyond the traditional scientific community. 

Alongside open access for journal articles and books, infrastructure, open data, code, and protocols are foundational elements of open science that enable transparency, reproducibility, and innovation. Realizing the potential of open science is intrinsically linked to the development of sustainable funding models, from grants to institutional support, crowdfunding, and collaborative consortia. 

Moderator 

Prof Khumbah, Head of STI Policy and Partnerships, the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) 

Opening remarks 

Prof. Lise Korsten, President, the African academy of Sciences (AAS) 

Panelists 

• Prof. John Mugabe, University of Pretoria, South Africa 
• Prof. Catherine Ngila, Executive Director, African Academy of Sciences (AAS) 
• Dr Nokuthula Mchunu, Deputy Director, African Open Science Platform, National Research Foundation, South Africa 
• Dr.  Jessica Thorn, University of Namibia & University of St Andrews in Scotland 

Contacts 

For more information, please contact  

Sheila Wetugi s.wetugi@aasciences.africa