sciencewg-apac-Dec2014

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sciencewg-apac-Dec2014 Open Science Working Group APAC Meeting - December 2014

When : 21 December 2014, 08:00:00 UTC (visit http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html to convert into your timezones)
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Topic : Open Science : How can we use Free Software, Open Data, Open Access & OER to foster Open Science

* Recommended to refer to this wiki for any reference : http://wiki.okfn.org/Open_Science/APACMonthlyCalls

Organiser :
Ranjith Raj Vasam ( https://in.linkedin.com/in/ranjithrajvasam )

Participants requested to add their name and Skype ID below :
Attending:
Ranjith Raj Vasam
Peter Murray-Rust
Scott Edmunds (scedmunds)
Kshitiz Khanal (not sure. Will attend if I do not have a class)
Sridhar Gutam (sridhar.gutam)
Chen-Yi Tu (armigil)
Fabiana Kubke (superfabs)
Naureen Nayyar (iamnora80)

Apologies:

Meeting Setup:
    Everyone can contribute a topic to discuss.
    We will follow through the agenda and conduct a roundtable on each item.
    Each person will be asked to comment unless they have nothing to add, to ensure everyone's views and ideas are heard.


Agenda:

1. Introductions - who is on the call and what is your interest in open science?

2. Ideas for open science projects in Asia-Pacific region
        Open Science Census ( https://pad.okfn.org/p/OSCensus )
        OKCon APAC and other regional events on open science

e.g. Open Society Conference Wellington, New Zealand April 2014 http://www.opensourceopensociety.com/

Regional OSTI or other training courses for open science
More local groups in different countries

Growing the open science community

Decentralising the Open Science Movement : Taking it to the grassroot

Ambassadors program
Collaborating with local organisations
Moving with like-minded movements like Free Software Movement, Open Data, Open Access

Hong Kong:

OA is an easy first step as policies are even behind mainland China and that is the usual comparison
Talking to gov and policy people about this
Grassroots will be a challenge, it's a little lonely!
APAC calls could link disparate groups e.g. open hardware and give opportunity to compare and contrast

Taiwan:

Open Science census would be a good project here (Taiwan is in the Open Data Index)
OA is an easier target, a lot of university libraries are spending money on OA and trying to promote e.g (https://adage.lib.nthu.edu.tw/OA/ (sorry it in Chinese))
Good to link groups together
Gov are focusing on bridge the gap between industry and academics, the open science may not be their primary target.

New Zealand:

The NZ Government is evaluating the adoption/iuse of the open gov data
There is an Open Society meeting in NZ in APril this year http://www.opensourceopensociety.com/
n New Zealand we are working on embedding good practice for Reproducible, Open Collaborative Research into the tertiary curriculum - there may be some weight put behind this to deploy at national level

India:

In india, Free Software movement is emerging significantly, as India is creating lakhs of software engineers every year and also a great increase in IT Industry in india
http://data.gov.in is an new initiative by govt. of india to promote outreach of using open data.
Another initiative called 'Make in India' by Prime Minster of India is also been poplular...many open hardware startups are budding in india.
But when it comes to science, its bit discouraging. A lots of pseudoscence is being circulated, as lots of religious/fundamental institutes are emerging
Collaborating with local organisations and similar movements

Open Access India (openaccessindia.org)
Free Software Movement of India
Wikimedia India

4. Next call

Scott Edmunds will host
We will further evaluate call software options!
Likely to be late January (after 18 Jan)
Helpful organiser notes: http://wiki.okfn.org/Open_Science/APACMonthlyCalls/OrganiserNotes

Links:
Open Society Conference Wellington, New Zealand April 2014 http://www.opensourceopensociety.com/
Marine Metre Squared project: http://mm2.net.nz/
Open Access policies in NZ (Institutional Level): University of Canterbury, Lincoln University, Waikato University - also Otago Polytechnic
Government has Open Data policy for Government departments (NZGOAL (https://ict.govt.nz/guidance-and-resources/open-government/new-zealand-government-open-access-and-licensing-nzgoal-framework/) in NEw Zealand, AUSGOAL in Australia)
New Zealand Open Source Awards (http://www.nzosa.org.nz/) has an Open Science category
Publons (open peer review) is based in Wellington, New Zealand
OERu (http://oeru.org/) Wayne Macintosh (a leader in the project) is based in Otago, New Zealand
Cesar Harada in Hong Kong is working with schools on open hardware http://www.instructables.com/id/Remote-Controlled-Optical-Plastic-Sensor/ and also producing CC0 radiation data from coast off Fukishima http://www.cesarharada.com/in-japan-to-map-seabed-radioactivity-around-fukushima-crippled-power-plant/
I don't know if people have seen the scandal that broke a few days ago about industrial scale fraud in Chinese academia: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/for-sale-your-name-here-in-a-prestigious-science-journal. All due to pure focus on impact factor. Could be an opportunity to lobby governments in the region to move away from this metric to other things like open data, altmetrics, etc.
Here in taiwan we have a scandal that the scientists could not give details on their research, and lost all the notes (!). So they need to retract a paper on a high IF journal http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v8/n6/full/nnano.2013.71.html (the paper under investigation)