Tuesday, June 30, 2020

CODATA Webinar 3: Publishing your Data with an Excellent Supplementary Article | 7 July

CODATA Webinar 3: Publishing your Data with an Excellent Supplementary Article
Date:  7th July 2020

Time: 4:30-5:30PM IST | 1:00 - 2:00 PM CEST, 11:00 AM - 12:00 noon UTC
Duration: 1 hour (40 min session and 20 min Question Answers)
Registration link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3485310430813294604

Speaker: Barend Mons
Professor, President CODATA, Strategic director GO FAIR, Prof. BioSemantics LUMC

Barend Mons is a global expert on FAIR principles and he led the 5 days long early meeting in January 2014 (Leiden) where the principles were first defined. Originally a molecular biologist with 15 years of basic research experience on malaria parasites and vaccines, he refocused in 2000 on semantic technologies and later on Open Science. He has thus been in this field from the very beginning and started various early movements for open science 'avant la lettre' (a.o. Wiki professional, Concept Web Alliance). Mons published over 100 peer reviewed articles and more recently a handbook named: Data Stewardship for Open Science. He was the senior author on the now widely cited FAIR principles paper in Nature's Scientific Data in 2016. In 2015, Barend was appointed Chair of the High Level Expert Group (HLEG) for the European Open Science Cloud, and the group published its report, which marked a critical step towards realising the aspiration of the EOSC. After leaving the HLEG he continued to be active towards the practical realisation of the EOSC, defined in the report as the Internet of FAIR data and services. Three countries (The Netherlands, Germany and France) took the early initiative to create a Global, Open approach to the implementation of FAIR principles in practice, called GO FAIR, with the aim to kick-start the developments towards EOSC in a global, open science and innovation context. Mons was appointed director of the Dutch International Support and Coordination Office of the infinitive with sister offices in Germany and France. Mons is the elected president of CODATA, the standing committee on research data related issues of the International Science Council.

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International FAIR Convergence Symposium 2020, 22-23 Oct: Registration Open | Call for sessions, posters and lightning talks, deadline 20 July

UNESCO Global Consultations on Open Science: deadline for inputs 15 June.

CODATA Connect and Data Science Journal Essay Competition: deadline 30 June 2020.

CODATA Connect Smart and Sustainable Cities Datathon: register by 30 June


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CODATA Webinar 5: Urban Data Observatory Framework and Climate Smart City Assessment Framework in India | 30th June

CODATA Webinar 5: Urban Data Observatory Framework and Climate Smart City Assessment Framework in India

Date: 30th June 2020
Time: 4:00 pm (IST)
Duration: 45 min session and 15 min Question Answers (Total 1 hour)
Registration Link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7425978795990828557

The rapid pace of urbanization in India demands that cities use data in a strategic manner to ensure sustainable and resilient development. This requires an intervention at the city level to facilitate the use of information for decision support through tools like data observatories. Through the research conducted by the Urban Resilience Unit, we can infer that cities need support with decision-making and using data effectively. The economic and social cost of urban decision making does prove the case for design of decision frameworks and establishment of data observatories to support Indian cities. Through this presentation, the author will highlight global case studies in which data observatories have facilitated smart decision making to reduce citywide and community risks to shocks and stresses. The author will also discuss the status of Indian cities and initiatives undertaken by the Indian national Government to promote data-informed decision making within urban governance.  

Speaker: Dr. Umamaheshwaran Rajasekar
Chair, Urban Resilience, National Institute of Urban Affairs

Dr. Rajasekar has over 15 years of professional experience in developing urban policy, spatial-temporal data analysis, visualisation, hazard risk modelling, climate change analysis, institutional analysis, adaptation & mitigation plans for governments, INGOs, bi-lateral and multilateral agencies. As a team leader and project manager he has spearheaded pioneering data informed policy efforts in India including implementation of end to end early warning systems for urban floods, establishment of urban health and climate resilience centre, development of urban disease surveillance system, mainstreaming of urban service monitoring systems, conduct of urban risk analysis and preparation of city resilience strategies. His recent work with Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs government of India, AFD, Asian Development Bank, DFiD, GIZ, Rockefeller Foundation, SDC, UNDP and WHO are targeted towards bridging the gap between technology and society to enable informed decision making in a changing environment across 100 smart cities.

His work has been published as peer reviewed journal articles, technical reports and has been presented at international forums and has been commended in the form of grants and awards by United States National Science Foundation, Rockefeller foundation, International Institute for Environment and Development, Gujarat Institute of Civil Engineers and Architects, Vastu Shilpa foundation and Dutch Ministry of Education. His recent work on development and implementation of Urban Services Monitoring System which connects more than 500 hospitals in the city of Surat, India to monitor critical water borne and vector borne diseases. His work in this area was recognized as an intervention to watch, by the U.N Secretary General's global pulse initiative.

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International FAIR Convergence Symposium 2020, 22-23 Oct: Registration Open | Call for sessions, posters and lightning talks, deadline 20 July

CODATA Connect and Data Science Journal Essay Competition: deadline 30 June 2020.

CODATA Connect Smart and Sustainable Cities Datathon: register by 30 June


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Monday, June 29, 2020

STIP2020 Panel Discussion on Data, Ethics and Regulatory Frameworks | 6th July

STIP2020 Online Panel Discussion on Data, Ethics and Regulatory Frameworks
Date: 06/07/2020 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm (IST)  
Hashtag: #ASKSTIP2020Data


STIP2020 Secretariat & Science Policy Forum are pleased to invite you to panel discussion on STI Policy Governance and Program Linkages in India. This event is part of the extended public and expert consultations for the formulation of India's new Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP).

Speakers: 

  • Prof. Geeta Gouri, Distinguished Fellow, India Development Foundation, Gurgaon
  • Prof. Prabuddha Ganguli, CEO, Vision IPR, Mumbai
  • Dr. Sunil Abraham (TBC), Executive Director, The Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore
  • Dr. Samir Saran (TBC), President, Observer Research Foundation
  • Dr. Suchita Ninawe (TBC), Adviser, Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India
Moderators:
  • Mr. Subhodeep Jash, FTI Consulting
  • Dr. Nidhi Thakur, STIP 2020 Secretariat

STIP2020 Panel Discussion on STI Policy Governance and Program Linkages | 10th July

STIP2020 Online Panel Discussion on STI Policy Governance and Program Linkages
Date: 10/07/2020 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm (IST)  
Hashtag: #ASKSTIP2020Policy


STIP2020 Secretariat & Science Policy Forum are pleased to invite you to panel discussion on STI Policy Governance and Program Linkages in India. This event is part of the extended public and expert consultations for the formulation of India's new Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP).

Speakers: 

  • Prof. Sujit Bhattacharya, Chief Scientist, CSIR-NISTADS 
  • Dr. Hiro Bhojwani, Former Director, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi 
  • Mr. Neeraj Sinha (TBC), Adviser, Dept of Science & Technology & Secretary, Technology Development Board 
  • Ms. Mugdha Sinha, Secretary S&T, Rajasthan 
  • Dr. Jatinder Kaur Arora, Executive director Punjab State Council for Science and Technology
Moderators:
  • Dr. B. Chagun Basha, Office of Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India 
  • Ms. Spoorthy Raman, Gubbi Labs

STIP2020 Panel Discussion on Equity and Inclusion | 30th June

STIP2020 Online Panel Discussion on Equity and Inclusion
Date: 30/06/2020 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm (IST)  
Hashtag: #ASKSTIP2020Inclusion


STIP2020 Secretariat & Science Policy Forum are pleased to invite you to panel discussion on Equity and Inclusion in India. This event is part of the extended public and expert consultations for the formulation of India's new Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP).

Speakers: 

  • Prof. Rohini Godbole, Professor Emeritus, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
  • Smt. Jyotsna Sitling, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests – Van Panchayat, Govt. of Uttarakhand
  • Prof. T.V. Kattimani, Former Vice Chancellor, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak
  • Dr. Sanjay Mishra, Head, KIRAN, INSPIRE-MANAK, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
  • Dr. A Mani, Senior member, International Rough Set Society, Visiting Faculty/Researcher, HBCSE, TIFR
Moderators:
  • Dr. Nimita Pandey, STIP 2020 Secretariat
  • Ms. Spoorthy Raman, Gubbi Labs

STIP2020 Panel Discussion on Financing STI | 29th June

STIP2020 Online Panel Discussion on Financing STI
Date: 29/06/2020 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm (IST)  
Hashtag: #ASKSTIP2020Finance


STIP2020 Secretariat & Science Policy Forum are pleased to invite you to panel discussion on Financing STI in India. This event is part of the extended public and expert consultations for the formulation of India's new Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP).

Speakers: 

  • Shri. Akhilesh Jha, Chief Controller of account office, DST, Ministry of Science and Technology
  • Dr Shahid Jameel, CEO, Wellcome Trust India Alliance
  • Prof. Jinusha Panigrahi, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration
  • Smt. Swati Joshi, Centre for Technology, Innovation and Economic Research (CTIER), Maharashtra

Thursday, June 25, 2020

UNESCO campaign challenges our perceptions of what back to normal should mean in the post-COVID-19 era.

UNESCO Media Advisory 2020/ 39
 

UNESCO campaign challenges our perceptions of what back to normal should mean in the post-COVID-19 era.

Paris, 25 June. UNESCO was founded in the wake of the World War II, born of the conviction that the unprecedented conflict could give rise to a better, more united world. Since wars begin in the minds of men and women, it is in the minds of men and women that a better world must be constructed, argued the Organization's founders. Their idea is more pertinent than ever as countries begin to emerge from the global COVID-19 crisis, which has called into question our priorities, our ways of life and the functioning of our societies.

People across the globe showed solidarity during the health emergency and saw how enhanced cooperation can help build a better future. But as the world begins to emerge from the pandemic, we tend to forget the lessons we learnt and "get back to normal," disregarding the cost of what we regard as normal to our environment, economies, public health and societies.

UNESCO is launching a global campaign challenging our perception of normality. The 2'20" film does not rely on complicated arguments to prove its point. It simply presents factual information about the world before and during the pandemic. Put together, these facts invite viewers to question their ideas about what is normal, suggesting that we have accepted the unacceptable for far too long. Our previous reality can no longer be accepted as normal. Now is the time for change.

As the intellectual agency of the United Nations, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) believes that the need for lasting change must take root in the hearts and minds of people everywhere before it can become reality.

The campaign is part of a wider effort by UNESCO to reflect on the world to come, notably through the UNESCO forum initiative, a laboratory of ideas bringing together prominent thinkers, the Resiliart movement, a series of panel debates on the future of culture and the cultural industries, the Futures Literacy Network, as well as the Futures of education programme and the global recommendations for open science and the ethics of artificial Intelligence. These are major issues that UNESCO started working on long before they were brought centre-stage by pandemic.

UNESCO invites the media and opinion leaders to share "The Next Normal" campaign, which was created by the DDB Paris agency, available as of 25 June 2020. 

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More on UNESCO's response to COVID-19 https://en.unesco.org/covid19

UNESCO Media contact: c.o-hagan@unesco.org
Clare O'Hagan +33145681729





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Wednesday, June 24, 2020

STIP2020 Online Panel Discussion on Innovation & Entrepreneurship | 27th June

STIP2020 Online Panel Discussion on Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Date: 27/06/2020 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm (IST)  
Hashtag: #ASKSTIP2020Innovation


STIP2020 Secretariat & Science Policy Forum are pleased to invite you to panel discussion on Innovation & Entrepreneurship. This event is part of the extended public and expert consultations for the formulation of India's new Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP).

Speakers: 

  • Dr. Taslimarif Saiyed, CEO & Director, C-CAMP
  • Dr. Ayesha Chaudhary, Program Director, Atal Innovation Mission
  • Mr. Sijo Kuruvilla George, CEO, Startup Village

STIP2020 Online Panel Discussion on Health and STI | 24th June

STIP2020 Online Panel Discussion on Health and STI
Date: 24/06/2020 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm (IST)  
Hashtag: #ASKSTIP2020R&D


STIP2020 Secretariat & Science Policy Forum are pleased to invite you to panel discussion on the interaction between Health and Science, Technology and Innovation. This event is part of the extended public and expert consultations for the formulation of India's new Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP).

Speakers:
  • Dr. Shailja V. Gupta, Senior Adviser, the Office of the PSA to the Government of India
  • Dr. Manisha Shridhar, Regional Advisor, WHO New Delhi
  • Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India

STIP2020 Online Panel Discussion on Access to Knowledge and Resources | 26th June

STIP2020 Online Panel Discussion on Access to Knowledge and Resources
Date: 26/06/2020 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm (IST)  
Hashtag: #ASKSTIP2020Access
STIP2020 Secretariat & Science Policy Forum are pleased to invite you to panel discussion on the Access to Knowledge and Resources in India's Science, Technology and Innovation ecosystem. This event is part of the extended public and expert consultations for the formulation of India's new Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP).

Speakers:
  • Dr. Rahul Siddharthan, Professor, Institute of Mathematical Sciences- Chennai
  • Prof. Shivashankar, Professor Emeritus, IISc Bangalore, Adviser, i-STEM portal
  • Dr. Alka Suri, Director, DESIDOC, DRDO
  • Dr. Arul George Scaria, Associate Professor, National Law University
  • Ms Purnima Rao, Community Library Project

Moderators: Moumita Koley, Anup Kumar Das
SM Volunteer: Siddharth Jain 

Saturday, June 20, 2020

Webinar on Enablers for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) – Early examples and synergies | 23 June

Webinar on Enablers for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) – Early examples and synergies for the EU and India




Dear All, 

With great pleasure we invite you to register for our 27th webinar in the knowledge sharing series under the aegis of the India-EU Partnership Project on Collaboration for ICT Standardisation.

Details of the 27th webinar in this series is as follows:


Topic: "Enablers for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) – Early examples and synergies for the EU and India."


Abstract: On the basis of the first session of this webinar series which provided a general overview of key priorities in an EU-India cooperation and business opportunities in the broader context of AI, this webinar intends to explore enablers for 4IR solutions and technologies in India and Europe. Both are ready and planning to join the 4IR. Therefore, the webinar will explore the business insights, role of enablers like 5G, IoT and AI and possible cooperation areas that India and EU can work together at business and policy level to further enable both sides to prosper and progress together.

On the basis of insights gained in session 01 of the webinar series, this webinar aims to:

 

  • Adopt a thematic focus (4IR) within which the overarching topic of business cooperation in the ICT sector and AI, IoT and 5G segment can be explored at a deeper level leading to concrete observations on prevalent opportunities and relevant areas of business support;
  • Identify key areas of cooperation which feed into the on-going policy dialogue in this regard and, in this setting
  • Define potential follow-up activities for increased EU-India business collaboration in 4IR related subsectors of ICT

Agenda and Speakers

Schedule: June 23rd, 2020 | 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM IST

Register Now
If you have any queries, regarding the webinar please contact: sachin.ICTstandards@gmail.com 
Best regards 
Andreas Sommer
Team Leader and Senior Technical Advisor 
Project "India-EU Cooperation on ICT-Related Standardisation, Policy and Legislation"
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New Article "Pathways for Sustainable Urban Waste Management and Reduced Environmental Health Risks in India: Winners, Losers, and Alternatives to Waste to Energy in Delhi" by P Randhawa, F Marshall, PK Kushwaha, and PN Desai

Pathways for Sustainable Urban Waste Management and Reduced Environmental Health Risks in India: Winners, Losers, and Alternatives to Waste to Energy in Delhi
by Pritpal Randhawa, Fiona Marshall, Pravin Kumar Kushwaha, and Pranav Desai. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2020, Volume 2, Article 14.
Abstract: This paper examines the shift toward centralized waste-to-energy (WTE) as a singular solution to Delhi's solid waste crisis and describes a transdisciplinary research process that sought to understand how and why this dominant waste management pathway emerged. It also sought to engage with and facilitate debate on the potential for alternative waste management pathways, which may better address combined environmental and social justice concerns. We explain the emergence of a transforming narrative that reframed waste from a risk to a resource, reflecting and reinforcing the dominant trajectory of socio-technical-ecological change in urban development, and reconfiguring waste related infrastructure to involve public private participation and WTE technology. Drawing on empirical studies, involving local residents, wastepickers associations, NGOs, and government officials, we discuss implications of WTE projects in Delhi. We argue that the current WTE focused approach, without modification, may simply displace health hazards across time, space and social groups and exacerbate social justice concerns. The dominant narrative on waste management priorities appear to make certain health risks protected and recognized whilst others are made invisible. We make the case for possible alternative waste management scenarios, institutional and regulatory arrangements that may better address environmental health and social justice concerns. These are summarized under eight principles for reframing urban waste management policy challenges in the context of sustainable urban development. These principles include a reframing of waste management through a sustainability lens that links currently divergent initiatives on environmental health and social justice. It involves an appreciation of complex socio-material flows of waste, the need to move beyond perspectives of waste management as an environmental policy issue alone, appreciation in policy development that the informal sector will remain a key player despite attempts to formalize waste management and the need to provide incentives for diverse waste management strategies that move beyond the private.

COVID-19: Should Europe Embrace Frugality? by S Bhaduri and P Knorringa

COVID-19: Should Europe Embrace Frugality?
by Saradindu Bhaduri and Peter Knorringa, 15 June 2020
In CFIA's GoFrugal blog series affiliated researchers reflect on the role of frugality and frugal innovation in times of Corona in different parts of the world. Read Full-Text


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Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Webinar on Online Learning and Teaching: Issues & Trends | 19th June

AC Joshi Library, Panjab University is organising its first  and Inaugural Webinar on "Online Learning and Teaching: Issues & Trends" on 19.06.2020 from 10 am to 12 noon. 
The programme is specially designed for academicians across the disciplines in the changing scenario of teaching and learning due to Covid19 and beyond. 
The Programme will be inaugurated by Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice-Chancellor with his presidential/inaugural remarks. The speakers of the webinar are:
1. Prof. Vinod Kumar, Vice-Chancellor, Jaypee University of Information & Technology, Solan (H.P.)    
2. Dr. Sanjaya Mishra, Education Specialist, Commonwealth of Learning, Canada
3. Prof. Jaideep Sharma, IGNOU, New Delhi
4. Prof. Bhaskar Mukherjee, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
5. Dr. R. Sevukan, Pondicherry University, Puducherry
6. Dr. Sandesha Rayapa, JNU, New Delhi
7. Ms. Kemelia Dutta, Online Learner

Event number: 166 283 3809 | Event password: VxhQtQbd964
Attendees may join directly by event address: https://panjabuniversity.webex.com/panjabuniversity/onstage/g.php?MTID=e9097df6768d3d2190d0a0b0d2a10ae1d
1000 users can join on first come first basis

Regards.

Dr. Jivesh Bansal
University Librarian,
A C Joshi Library,
Panjab University, Chandigarh-160014.  India
Email: librarian[@]pu.ac.in,  jiveshbansal[@]gmail.com
Ph: 9815440621

Monday, June 15, 2020

CODATA Connect Webinar on Writing an Article with Excellent Supporting Data | 22 June

CODATA Connect Webinar on writing an article with excellent supporting data
Date: 22nd June  2020
Time: 14:00 UTC | 19:30 IST
Registration: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/490009859085625101

Science requires evidence behind an assertion. As William Deming said, "without data, you're just another person with an opinion." So the argument in a research article must have some sort of evidence, i.e. data, behind it. But does the data support the article or does the article support the data? Both actually. It is the responsibility of the researcher to provide a package of evidence and argument in order to advance our understanding.

This will introduce ways to interconnect your article and data in ways that make them most readily understood and useful by others.  Topics include how to prepare data for presentation, how to ensure the data are well stewarded, and how to provide fair credit and access to data through citation. It will also touch briefly on other research outputs like software and protocols.

Speaker: Mark A. Parsons, Research Scientist and Editor in Chief, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Data Science Journal

Mark Parsons is a Senior Research Scientist at the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He researches mediation and how researchers actually share data and collaborate. Mark was the first Secretary General of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and stepped down in July 2017. He focuses on stewarding research data and making them more accessible and useful across different ways of knowing. He has led major data stewardship efforts for more than 20 years, and received the American Geophysical Union Charles S. Falkenberg Award as an advocate of robust data stewardship as a vital component of Earth system science and as an important profession in its own right. Prior to joining Rensselaer, Mark was a Senior Associate Scientist and the Lead Project Manager at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). While at NSIDC, he defined and implemented their overall data management process and led the data management effort for the ICSU/WMO International Polar Year 2007-2008. Mark is the Editor-in-chief of the CODATA Data Science Journal.

Monday, June 8, 2020

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Science, Technology and Innovation in Latin America in the Journal of Scientometric Research

Special Issue on Science, Technology and Innovation in Latin America in the Journal of Scientometric Research
Guest Editors: Jacqueline Leta & Kizi Araujo

In the last decades, we have witnessed a strong global growth of science, technology and innovation, as a result of the expansion of investment in human resources and infrastructure for the sector. These efforts, however, did not take place in a balanced way and resulted in greater gaps and a more intense division between countries: producers of knowledge and technology on one side and consumers on the other.
This unbalanced picture led to the establishment of a collaborative model, known as North-South, where the South, that embraces consumers or peripheral countries, establishes strong links with the North, or central countries, in order to overcome its internal deficiencies in science, technology and innovation. In this context Latin America presents itself as a region with little tradition in the sector. Some indicators extracted from the report organized by RICYT in 2019, entitled "El estado de la ciencia: main indicators of Ibero-American / Inter-American science and technology 2019", illustrate this scenario for 2017: (a) investments in science, technology in the region represent 3.1% of all global investment (European countries invest around 22%), (b) the region has 3.7% of the world's researchers (Europe has 30%) and (c) similar shares are seen for the number of scientific publications and patents.
Noteworthy highlighting the central role of universities, especially in the public sector, as the main drivers of scientific and technological activities in Latin America: they concentrate almost 60% of researchers in the region and they have strong financial support from the public sector, which corresponds to 58%. It is also worth mentioning the region's internal inequalities in all sectors and also in science, technology and innovation, where Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, assume central roles with investment rates, human resources and have much higher production than the region's average.
Despite recent efforts, Latin America's current picture points to the need to strengthen the collaborative projects already established with central countries as a way to enlarge the training for and visibility of the region's scientific and technology activities within global science. On the other hand, this picture also raises discussions on the need for Latin American governments to seek internal strategies, such as the expansion of South-South relations, that may lead to a greater local and regional development as well as to a reduction of the region's level of scientific and technological dependency and to the establishment of a common agenda focused on the peculiarities and demands of the region, especially in health sciences.
Recently, global public health crises, such as Zika and COVID-19, have reinforced the strategic character of the whole system of science, technology and innovation in the production of quick and joint responses. At times like these, local competencies may become protagonists and so can break barriers, altering significantly the producer-consumer model of new knowledge.
Considering this brief introduction, this special issue of the Journal of Scientometric Research (JSCIRes) will welcome studies in the Latin America context, including comparative or case studies, with the following subjects:
  • ST&I indicators, mainly in the field of health sciences or in emerging themes;
  • ST&I policies and the impact on reducing local and regional inequalities for the sector;
  • Scientific collaboration, with emphasis on local and regional relations;
  • Open Access, Open Research Data, Consolidation of local or regional databases, Multilingualism, among other topics to enhance visibility and internationalization;
  • Alternative indicators, such as social media metrics, and the impact and influence of the scientific and technological activities in the virtual environment.

Submission Guidelines
To submit the full manuscript, authors should read carefully the journal instructions and requirements in terms of length, reference style. Submissions can be made using the following links: https://www.journalonweb.com/jscires/
Full manuscript to be considered for publication in the Special issue of "Science Technology Innovation and Development in Latin America". Submission of a full manuscript does not indicate automatic acceptance for the present special issue.
All full manuscripts to be considered for the special issue must be submitted through the online submission system and are subjected to double-blind peer review and inclusion in the Special Issue will be determined on a final acceptance decision by the Editor-in-Chief on the basis of peer reviews and recommendations made by the Guest Editors.

Important Dates
  • Abstract submission deadline: 15th July 2020 (to be sent to the Guest Editors, guesteditors.latinamerica[@]gmail.com)
  • Decision by Guest Editors: 31st July 2020
  • Full paper submission deadline: 31st October 2020
(Should be submitted to the online journal submission system. In the Submission under this Special Issue. Paper should have a running title STI-Latin America, in the article file. If in any case Authors are not able to submit under Special Issue Login, then submit through the main submission of the journal.) Please follow the Guideline (a & b) of the Journal in submitting abstract and full paper (paper can be submitted in different categories (Perspective paper, Research note, etc). Abstract should follow the guideline of the research article. While submitting full paper, in the cover letter and in the main manuscript first page above the title indicate the category if it is other than a research article.
For any query/correspondence: guesteditors.latinamerica[@]gmail.com