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“The Platform is:
•a [trusted, continental, integrated] federated
system that provides scientists and other societal
actors with the means to find, deposit, manage,
share and reuse data, software and metadata in
pursuing their interests;
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![“It was revealed last month [April 2019] that the tech
giant plans to launch a network of more than 3,000
low Earth orbit satellites to provide high-speed
broadband connectivity to "unserved and
underserved communities around the world".](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/dirisa-190702112010/85/Accelerating-Science-Technology-and-Innovation-Through-Open-Data-and-Open-Science-Ina-Smith-16-320.jpg)
![STI Strategy for Africa 2024 - Priorities for the
African research community
1. disease prevention & control;
2. climate resilience (disaster risk);
3. environmental protection (biosphere, hydrosphere);
4. food and nutritional security;
5. smart resilient cities; [SONA]
6. achieving sustainability goals;
7. improved knowledge production;
8. improved intra-Africa research collaboration.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/dirisa-190702112010/85/Accelerating-Science-Technology-and-Innovation-Through-Open-Data-and-Open-Science-Ina-Smith-36-320.jpg)
Accelerating Science, Technology and Innovation Through Open Data and Open Science/Ina Smith
- 1. Applying scientific thinking in the service of society Accelerating Science, Technology and Innovation Through Open Data and Open Science: African Open Science Platform Presented by Ina Smith - @ismonet Project Manager, African Open Science Platform SA National Research Data Workshop, 2 July 2019
- 3. Ebola outbreak 2014-2015 in West Africa
- 5. Example challenges regarding health data • Delay in sharing pathogen data collected • Gaps in pathogen data • Lack of adherence to international standards • Uncertainty about IP rights • Absence of patient consent • Data not FAIR • “Open possible, closed necessary” • And more
- 9. Future AOSP Phase 1 Vision “African scientists are at the cutting edge of contemporary, data-intensive science as a fundamental resource for a modern society. They are innovative global exponents and advocates of Open Science, and leaders in addressing African and Global Challenges.” Source: The Future of Science and Science of the Future https://tinyurl.com/y7aw4oa4
- 10. Future AOSP Phase 1 Mission “The Platform is: •a [trusted, continental, integrated] federated system that provides scientists and other societal actors with the means to find, deposit, manage, share and reuse data, software and metadata in pursuing their interests; •a network providing connective tissue between dispersed actors in ….”
- 11. NICIS Model for South Africa (national) SANReN CHPCDIRISA
- 12. Collaboration among countries, institutions, projects, researchers – sharing resources; free flow of data, research, knowledge Trust relationships, openness, transparency – trusting others for having your best interest at heart, and not because of the profits they can make from your research Researcher driven – needs addressed & bring infrastructure to data Key to AOSP
- 13. African countries to prepare • Connectivity, bandwidth • Science engagement • Open Data policies, making research data management a requirement • Incentives for sharing research data, and funders to make open data a requirement (as open possible) • Opportunities for skills development among network providers, system architects, system support staff, user support staff, data engineers, data architects, data stewards, data scientists, policy/decision-makers • Trusted and reliable eInfrastructure
- 14. Similar to European Open Science Cloud, others "We are not building the future EOSC from scratch, but will be starting from what members of the community worked in the last years: inclusiveness is going to be critical, especially in regions whose voice has not been heard enough so far." - Cathrin Stöver, Chief Collaboration Officer, GÉANT
- 16. “It was revealed last month [April 2019] that the tech giant plans to launch a network of more than 3,000 low Earth orbit satellites to provide high-speed broadband connectivity to "unserved and underserved communities around the world".
- 19. GÉANT Connecting the global R&E Community https://www.geant.org/News_and_Events/Pages/Mapping-the-global-RandE- community.aspx
- 21. ASREN - Algeria, Egypt, Lybia, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia (4 connected; 2 not yet connected) WACREN - Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo (3 connected; 11 not yet connected) UbuntuNet Alliance - Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe (10 connected; 6 not yet connected) Connected countries
- 22. NRENs providing specialised Internet services
- 23. NRENs providing specialised Internet services • Large bandwidth network connections between research institutions and providers of HPC and research Cloud providers • NRENs may be able to provide high performance computing and storage services in some cases (not core business) • In SA – high performance computing service provided by HPCC and storage services by DIRISA
- 24. NRENs experimenting with data transfer https://www.sanren.ac.za/services/pert/data-transfer-pilot/
- 25. Analysis of Big and Broad Research Data • Require high performance computing services ResearchDataManagement
- 26. High Performance Computing Services • Cloud systems to provide highly flexible environments • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Cloud providers - to be linked to NRENs e.g. OpenStack • Performance loss to be addressed through OpenStack provisioning HPC environments onto the bare metal servers making up the underling clusters • New standards such as AARC2 BluePrint architecture are enabling role based authorized, secure access to distributed Cloud systems - accessing data distributed among the federated resources
- 27. High Performance Computing Services Examples of organisations providing IaaS Cloud systems to support research include NeCTAR in Australia and Compute Canada (CC). A slightly different example is EGI that provides a framework and toolset to federate the IaaS Cloud systems hosted at data centres across Europe.
- 28. African Open Science Platform Pilot (2016 – 2019) • Landscape study – 66+ data-intensive initiatives • Stakeholders (network) – 1 500+ individuals • Priority data-intensive disciplines • Frameworks: • Open Data Policy (statements, enabling processes, elements) • Incentives (actions, career assessment) • eInfrastructure (connectivity, cloud & hpc, data curation) • Capacity Building (technical & non-technical) • Research Data Management (services, core skills, dmp) • Funders (work in progress)
- 30. AOSP Data Science School
- 32. AOSP eInfrastructure Ecosystem (Draft)
- 33. Proposed data-intensive flagship project (Draft)
- 35. South Africa White Paper on STI “As part of its commitment to African STI cooperation, South Africa will also work to advance the open science agenda elsewhere on the continent and within regional frameworks. The strategic role of the African Open Science Platform, hosted by the Academy of Science of South Africa, which promotes African-wide development and coordination of data policies, data training and data infrastructure, will be leveraged with the support of the DST and the National Research Foundation (NRF).”
- 36. STI Strategy for Africa 2024 - Priorities for the African research community 1. disease prevention & control; 2. climate resilience (disaster risk); 3. environmental protection (biosphere, hydrosphere); 4. food and nutritional security; 5. smart resilient cities; [SONA] 6. achieving sustainability goals; 7. improved knowledge production; 8. improved intra-Africa research collaboration.
- 37. SGCI Statement of Principles and Actions: Social and Economic Impact of Research (2018) “Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) participants should support and advocate for the development and use of Open Science platforms that widen access to knowledge and allow integrated problem solving at a potentially transformative (as opposed to incremental) scale. GRC participants should commit funding towards the development of the human capital necessary for leveraging the potential of Big Data, as well as invest in the infrastructure required materialising Open Science platforms.”
- 38. Congratulations! Dr Happy Sithole - NSTF-South32 Management Award Prof Tandi Matsha - NSTF-South32 Data for Research Award