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Open Scientific Information: Contributions and Challenges from Latin America and the Caribbean

March 18, 2024

WEBINAR: Contributions and Challenges from Latin America and The Caribbean

Save the date: March 22nd, 12:00-14:00 GMT-3 (Argentina), 16:00-18:00 CET

In order to advance responsible evaluation of research and open science, and to promote more transparent and high-quality decision-making, debates are being generated with the purpose of changing the landscape of open research information and transforming existing restrictive practices. For example, universities such as Antioquia, Sorbonne, and Leiden are embracing open, free, and participatory tools.

Given the proliferation of open scientific information infrastructures (such as LA Referencia, AmeliCA, Redalyc, SciELO, Latindex, Open Science Lens, and OpenAlex, among others), it seems like an opportune moment to expand dialogues and join efforts to enhance access, transparency, and diversity of scientific information available to universities and research centers, as well as to strengthen the transparency and contextualization of research evaluation processes.

In this scenario and considering your expertise, we would like to invite you to participate in a dialogue space where we are interested in hearing your opinions on the potentialities and difficulties in the use of open infrastructures, as well as the possibilities for organizing open data to facilitate its availability and shared use.

Preliminary Program

Coordination: Ismael Ràfols, CWTS, University of Leiden, UNESCO Chair on Diversity and Inclusion in Global Science.

12:00-12:10pm GMT-3 (Argentina) Welcome Remarks by the UNESCO Chair of CWTS, University of Leiden, and CLACSO.

12:10-12:50 GMT-3 Institutional Experiences in the Use of Indicators in Science and Technology: Opportunities and Challenges. Speakers:

Cécile Arènes and Amélie Church, Sorbonne University, Paris.
Gabriel Vélez Cuartas, COLAV Coordinator, University of Antioquia, Medellín.
André Brasil, CWTS, UNESCO Chair, University of Leiden.
Bernardo Rondelli, Siris Academic Foundation.
Ignasi Labastida, Director of the Office of Knowledge Dissemination, University of Barcelona.
Fernanda Beigel, Director of the OLIVA Project, CECIC, University of Cuyo, Mendoza.
Rodolfo Barrere, Coordinator of RICYT.

12:50-13:30pm GMT-3 Open Scientific Information as a Global Public Good: Contributions and Plans of Infrastructures in Latin America and the Caribbean. Speakers:

Ana María Cetto, Founder of Latindex, President of UNESCO’s World Open Science Steering Committee.
Rodrigo Costas, CWTS, UNESCO Chair, University of Leiden & University of Campinas.
Lautaro Matas, Executive and Technical Secretary of LA Referencia.
Arianna Becerril, Executive Director of Redalyc.
Abel Packer (to be confirmed), Coordinator of the SciELO Program.

13:30-13:55pm GMT-3 Round of exchanges and questions.

13:55-14:00pm GMT-3 Closing Remarks by Laura Rovelli and Dominique Babini (CLACSO).

Co-organized by UNESCO Chair on Diversity and Inclusion in Global Science, CWTS, Leiden University, Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) Broadcast: CLACSO’s YouTube and Zoom networks.

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International Symposium: Big Data and STI Policy Decision-Making

March 22, 2023

International Symposium

“Big Data and STI Policy Decision-Making”

UNICAMP/InSySPo – July 18, 2023

Decision-making for allocating R&I resources is informed by data, often well-structured to create information, and less frequently well analyzed to result in knowledge. The harvesting of more data from multiple and quite diverse sources, popularly known nowadays as big or large data, has created immense expectations of opportunities and has opened major debates. Undeniably the availability of large amounts of diverse data and of data processing capabilities through modern techniques such as machine learning have opened a vast number of possibilities. Big data use opens new doors to understanding complexity. Big data provide real time information. Such data also offer rare opportunities to study research policy and strategy in new ways.

Still, challenges are aplenty. For our purposes the most obvious is how best to interrogate and meaningfully manage diverse kinds of data to support improved decision-making at both the public and private sectors. The databases continuously storing data will become larger and larger over time and applying big data analytical approaches will be inevitable. Big data are supposed to offer greater statistical power and higher false discovery rate. The introduction of big data in science has been the outcome of the intensification of digital means in research and of the massive use of mathematics and statistics by natural scientists to understand important aspects of the real world.

This Symposium will concentrate on how data and evidence are transforming research policy and strategy. Three keynote speeches by prominent international experts will present new developments (particularly focusing on new data and analytics) in the field of scientometrics and science of science. Two panels will debate the implications of such developments to the elaboration of policy for science and technology.

Place
Unicamp (main campus)
This is a hybrid event. It will be possible to also participate online.
Registrations

08:30 – 09:00	Registration, coffee
09:00-09:30	Welcome – University President, IG Director, InSySPo Chair
09:30-10:30	Keynote 1 (& Q&A) – Cassidy Sugimoto (GATech) “Institutionalization of Inequities in Science”Introduction by Nick Vonortas (GW/UNICAMP)
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:00	Keynote 2 (& Q&A) – Vincent Lariviere (UdeM) “How bibliometrics can inform science policy: the case of research funding”Introduction by Sergio Salles (UNICAMP)
12:00-13:00	Panel 1 (addressing keynotes) – Adriana Bin (UNICAMP), Roberto Marcondes (USP), Rodrigo Costas Comesana (ULeiden),AnaMaria Carneiro (UNICAMP)
13:00-14:30	Lunch Break
14:30-15:30	Keynote 3 (& Q&A) – Rodrigo Costas Comesana (ULeiden) “Making visible the invisible: how novel (and open) scientometric data sources can help us unveil new perspectives on science”Introduction by Sergio Queiroz (UNICAMP)
15:30-17:00	Panel 2 (lessons) – Cassidy Sugitomo (GATech), Vincent Lariviere (UdeM), Sergio Salles (UNICAMP), Euclides de Mesquita Neto (FAPESP)
17:00-17:30	Closing: Carlo Pietrobelli (UniRoma3/UM), Nick Vonortas (GW/UNICAMP)

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From Local to Global: GVCs and Ecosystems of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Post-COVID World

April 21, 2022

The world is in turbulence caused by several events occurring simultaneously. Among these events, a general mistrust of globalization in the electorates of several democratic (and non) countries, the geopolitical tensions between China and the United States as well as wars between Russia and its neighbours, and COVID-19 loom large. The latter has evolved into a global health crisis that – considering the levels of global socioeconomic integration – is unprecedented in modern history (past 100 years), leading governments to take drastic measures which impact social life but also economy and Global Value Chains (GVC).

The confluence of such crises is expected to lead to a widespread economic turmoil that will hit hard many countries and regions worldwide. Scholars have argued about the surging of a phase of de-globalization in which GVCs are being transformed and restructured. In parallel, accelerating shifts associated with Industry 4.0 are also shaping the reorganization of the global economy.

If so, the effect on systems of innovation will be profound. The double-sided feature of productive structures (global and local) towards innovation generates dense interactions – a pivotal element of competitiveness at the micro, meso and macro-levels. Notwithstanding, prospective trends of disruption represent substantial risks for relationships involving organizations and innovation systems.

Based on this background, there is massive uncertainty in how countries, regions, firms and individuals will respond to multifaceted crises and productive rearrangements, which ones will be more resilient and better capable of adaptation than others, and why that will be the case. Considering the pivotal role played by GVCs in shaping and integrating technological capabilities at the micro, meso and macro-levels worldwide better conceptualizing these conditions becomes key to properly addressing how economic and innovation systems will absorb the associated.

This international conference will address these fundamental questions. In particular, we our topics of interest will cover: