The OpenCon Organizing Committee is involved in all aspects of the meeting, from creating the conference program to deciding which applicants are selected to attend. The Organizing Committee members are listed below:
Guillermina Actis
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Penny Andrews
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Ivonne LujanoI am a lecturer at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico working to advance future teachers education. Since 2011 I have been strongly advocating for Open Access in Mexico and Latin America. First, in Redalyc (OA journals database) where I was in charge of journals evaluation department; and now as the ambassador of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) in Latin America, where I currently collaborate with several universities and research centres, promoting best practice and transparency in journals. I am interested in journals evaluation systems in Latin America, because I firmly believe that if we want to democratize the current scholarly communication environment, the mechanisms to determine quality of journals such as the more traditional metrics, should be reviewed. Recently, with a colleague from Argentina, I published a paper on this issue; we hope our analysis contribute to improve national policies for journals. |
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Thomas Hervé Mboa NkoudouI am the President of the Association for the Promotion of Open Science in Haiti and Africa (APSOHA), currently I am a PhD student in Information and Communication at Université Laval (Canada). My interest in openness is firstly about values like : sharing, community, inclusion, diversity, equity, cognitive justice. With these values, knowledges are Commons. That is why I am deeply engaged in Open access, to make African research more visible and accessible on the web, through the future Panafrican Instutionnal Repository. As a teacher, I am promoting Open Education through OER and open practices, that is why I have created « La Fabrique des Ressources Educatives Libres » a platform where students and teachers have access to open textbooks." |
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Naomi PenfoldI am Innovation Officer at eLife, a non-profit organisation working to accelerate discovery and to promote responsible behaviours in science. Through a PhD in neuroscience and exposure to the science policy world, I developed an interest in open science and supporting early-career researchers to work collaboratively and openly. My work for the eLife Innovation Initiative involves identifying and supporting people and projects improving research communication, from discovery and sharing to consumption and evaluation. I strongly believe in the potential of the web to make research a more equitable and effective enterprise, and in open (source and science) as an enabler of inclusive community governance, as well as to ensure successes can be widely adopted and built on by the whole community. |
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Vinodh IlangovanI am a biomedical scientist at Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen. Open Science helps in enhancing the reproducible nature of research products, hence I advocate for several open research practices including Open Access, Open Data and Open Peer Review. I believe, changes in existing scholarly evaluation procedures can advance “open”. I am interested in exploring indicators that will recognize the rigour and reproducibility of research article(s) or product(s) in addition to the contribution of individual researcher, resulting in better research evaluation. |
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Erin McKiernanErin McKiernan is a professor in the Department of Physics, Biomedical Physics program at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City. She is a researcher in experimental and computational biophysics and neurophysiology, and an advocate for open access, open data, and open science. She is the founder of 'Why Open Research?' (whyopenresearch.org), an educational site for researchers to learn about sharing their work. She blogs at emckiernan.wordpress.com and you can follow her on twitter at @emckiernan13. |
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Achintya Rao
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Asura Enkhbayar
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Robin ChampieuxRobin is the Research Engagement and Open Science Librarian at Oregon Health & Science University. She became involved with the OpenCon community after attending the inaugural conference in Washington, D.C. in 2014. There she learned that with the right information, enough practical pathways, and a supportive community, early career researchers have the potential to change the culture of scientific communication. Because of Robin’s experience, the OHSU Library became an on-going sponsor of student scholarships to OpenCon, and she’ll be collaborating with regional OpenCon alumni and open advocates to organize a satellite event, OpenCon Cascadia, in Spring 2018. In addition to sparking her strategies for making open science the norm at OHSU, Robin says that she continues to learn from and be inspired by the OpenCon community, especially its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. |
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Ahmed OgunlajaAhmed is a medical doctor and founder of Open Access Nigeria, an organization which advocates for policies that unlock research, scientific data and educational resources; as well as educate researchers, academics and the public about Open Science. He is mobilizing and organizing volunteers across Nigerian universities to engage with stakeholders and policymakers in academia and in government, with the aim of influencing behavior change and enacting policies that promote free online access to research and educational resources, in order to foster innovation and accelerate scientific discovery. In 2016, he was a recipient of the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. He is interested in Open because of its social justice implications, and its potential to foster inclusive and sustainable development. |
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Jessica PolkaJessica Polka, PhD is Director of ASAPbio, a biologist-driven project to promote the productive use of preprints in the life sciences. Before becoming a visiting scholar at the Whitehead Institute, she performed postdoctoral research in the department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School following a PhD in Biochemistry from UCSF. Her interest in Open stems from a desire to make scientific research more efficient, productive, and inclusive. Jessica serves as president of the board of directors of Future of Research, a steering committee member of Rescuing Biomedical Research, a member of the NAS Next Generation Researchers Initiative, and a member of ASCB's public policy committee. |
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Slobodan RadicevSlobodan Radicev is early stage researcher affiliated with two universities, University of Novi Sad (Serbia) and University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy). He has more than ten years of experience in various organizations connected with the university and research. Currently, Slobodan is governing board member of EuroScience. Before EuroScience he was two times elected as a president of the European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers. In the past five years, Slobodan was a guest speaker at many events related to young researchers in Europe and the US, he is also a member of organizing committees of several events each year. He becomes involved in OA community by the chance and he soon realizes how Open Access and in general Open Science is important for the science and society development. Slobodan is a co-founder of Open Access Academy and active supporter of many OA projects. |
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Katerina DimaI am a final year medical student from Greece, currently representing the International Federation of Medical Students' Associations - IFMSA as Liaison Officer in Medical Education, working in a variety of issues including Open Access, Open Data and Open Educational Resources. As an organization comprised of medical students all over the world, striving for equality and access to high quality medical education, we have been developing several actions: Whether it is advocating, through our own policies, and attending high level meetings, supporting and even co organizing OpenCon for a few years or building capacity among thousands of students to fight for Open Access themselves, IFMSA has constantly being in the frontline. OpenCon 2017 will be an incredible opportunity to shape our way forward and take better and stronger action! |
Osman Aldirdiri, Sudan: Open Sudan
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