International Webinar Series on Open Science and the Decolonization of Knowledge | South & Southeast Asia – English

About this Event

Speakers:

Mr. Eric Falt, Director, UNESCO New Delhi Office (Covering Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka)

Prof. Saleemul Huq, Director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) at Independent University

Dr. Bhavani Rao R. UNESCO Chair in Gender Equality & Women’s Empowerment & Director of AMMACHI Labs

Dr. Rajesh Tandon, Founder-President, Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA) & UNESCO Chair on Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education

Background

The Canadian Commission for UNESCO and the UNESCO Chair in Community-Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education are collaborating in supporting an international webinar series in support of the UNESCO consultations on the creation of a Recommendation on Open Science, an international normative document to be adopted by the UNESCO General Conference in November of 2021. The webinar series is based on a brief prepared by Florence Piron (Université Laval), Leslie Chan (University of Toronto), Lorna Williams (University of Victoria, Lil’wat First Nation), Rajesh Tandon (PRIA India) and Budd Hall (University of Victoria). The title of the brief is “Open Science Beyond Open Access: For and With Communities A Step Towards the Decolonization of Knowledge”. Available here: https://zenodo.org/record/3946773#.X2uYDWhKiUk  

Additional Support

Should you require any additional support with the registration process, please do not hesitate to contact Nathan Creighton-Kelly (nathan.creighton-kelly@ccuensco.ca)