East Africa Open Science Tour 2018

Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan and Kenya

November 12-13 UVRI: Entebbe, Uganda

November 15-16 AASTU: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

November 18-19 UofK: Khartoum, Sudan

November 22-23 ICIPE: Nairobi, Kenya

Apply here to attend one of these trainings. Application deadline: November 2, 2018 (Closed)

Open Science Intro

The life cycle of Open Science encompasses all steps of scientific research: from hypothesis generation, to literature review, to data collection, to data analyses and finally to publication of results.

These 2-days trainings are open to PhD students, scientists and researchers interested in learning more about Open Science. Up to 25 participants will be selected for each workshop. Follow the link HERE to apply and attend one of these trainings.
Please select the one in your country/city. Note that no travel support will be available

Workshops schedule

Day 1- Opening up the research life cycle, advantages and resources available

• 9:00-9:30 Introductions & get to know each other
• 9:30-10:30 Opening up the research life cycle

Research process: open vs closed systems
Open Science pillars (Open access, Open source, Open data, Open collaborations)

• 10:30-11:00 Coffee break
• 11:00-11:30 OPEN LICENSING
• 11:30-12:30 OPEN Data

Open repositories
Open data and ethical aspects
Open vs controlled
Emerging opportunities for accessing sensitive data without downloadability

• 12:30-13:30 Lunch BREAK
• 13:30-14:30 Working open success stories in Biomedical research

Sage Bionetworks success stories
Breeding repositories and crop information systems (in Nairobi)
OpenScienceKE (in Nairobi)

• 14:30-15:15 Resources available in the open
• 15:15-15:45 Coffee break
• 15:45-17:00 Discussion working open in the Biomed field: advantages and challenges

Day 2 - Working Open resources

• 9:00-9:30 Introductions & refresher
• 09:30-12:30 Introduction to GitHub
• Introduction: account setup and terminologies
• Introduction to markdown syntax
• GitHub for Collaboration: forking, issues, labels, pull-requests, merging
• Hands-on GitHub: Collaborative project
• Advanced GitHub: Gh-pages, Gitbook, Continuous Integration (e.g. https://travis-ci.org/)
• Optional: Intro to Git
• 12:30-13:30 Lunch BREAK
• 13:30-15:30 Process of making data FAIR and OPEN
• 15:30-15:45 Coffee break
• 15:45-16:45 Best practices in developing Data management plans

Data Management Plan template


• 16:45-17:15 Wrap up and GOING FORWARD WITH OPEN

Notes

Sessions

Session notes and resources will be shared here.

Help

1. Getting Help

   Here we'll hopefully answer questions you might have.

   • What is our event hashtag?

     #mozwow

   • Where can I find the Code of Conduct for this event?

     You can find it here. We'd love for feedback on how it could be improved.

   • Who can I approach if I have any problems or issues to report that violate our Code of Conduct?

     In coordination with our Code of Conduct, we have two appointed members of our "safety team" responsible for maintaining the ethos of that code throughout the event, and providing help or resources to anyone who might require it. Reach out to the following people if you have questions, issues, or concerns that you wish to express.

     • Amel Ghouila - @AmelGhouila, amel.ghouila@gmail.com

2. Finding Resources

   Here we'll list some persistent resources that you might use throughout the workshop.

   • Working Open Resource Repository

     https://github.com/mozillascience/EastAfricaWOW

   • Working Open Workshop Etherpad

     https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/AfricaWOW2018

   • Mozilla Mission

     https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/

Glossary

Trainers

Meet your mentors!

We're bringing together open science enthusiasts to share and learn working open best practice in research.

From H3ABioNet

From Mozilla

From Sage Bionetworks

From IITA

From The carpentries community, Ethiopia

Workshops venues

November 12-13

November 15-16

November 18-19

November 22-23