Open Science and Innovation Walid KARAM, PhD University of Balamand Al-Kurah, Lebanon 4 May, 2017 Amman, Jordan

What is Open Science? Efforts by governments, research funding agencies or the scientific community itself to make the primary outputs of publicly funded research results – publications and the research data – publicly accessible in digital format with no or minimal restriction movement to make scientific research, data and dissemination accessible to all levels of a society the idea that scientific knowledge of all kinds should be openly shared as early as is practical in the discovery process

Six instruments of Open Science Source: P. Kraker, D. Leony, W. Reinhardt, and G. Beham. 2011. The case for an open science in technology enhanced learning. Int. J. Technol. Enhanc. Learn. 3, 6 (February 2011), 643-654. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTEL.2011.045454

Project Polymath One da Vinci changed the world. Sir Tim Gowers, a British mathematician, professor at Cambridge, recipient of a Noble Prize, He’s also a blogger. In 2009, he asked the question on his blog: “Is massively collaborative mathematics possible”? He invited people to post comments on his blog, and invited them to think about unsolved problems. The first problem in what is called the Polymath Project, Polymath1, was to find a new combinatorial proof to the density version of the Hales–Jewett theorem. After 7 weeks, Gowers wrote on his blog that the problem was "probably solved" One da Vinci changed the world. Let’s create thousands.

“Openness” fosters innovation

Open Data innovation accountability & transparency Open data is the idea that some data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. innovation accountability & transparency

Open Data initiative in Lebanon Open data is the idea that some data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control.

Open Innovation Week

Free/Open Source Software

FOSS & education Education is a social mission – to teach students to be citizens of a strong, capable, independent, cooperating and free society

FOSS & education We should refuse to teach dependency We should teach moral education, in addition to basic scientific facts and skills

FOSS vs Proprietary Software

Free/Open Source Software initiative: ma3bar 2008-2013 A partnership between UNDP, UNESCO, and the University of Balamand Mission: To disseminate free and open source software as a philosophy and culture in academia and Arab societies. To contribute to social and economic development in the Arab region by promoting the use and development of FOSS, and by developing and conducting training programs on such software, to ensure that more Arab communities have affordable access to information technologies.

Free/Open Source Software initiative: OSSCOM 2014-2017 UK Jordan Germany Spain Lebanon

OSSCOM General Project Idea Building links between HEIs and the private sector for a wider spread of FOSS Developing “Open” Technical and Educational Resources Facilitating Entrepreneurship Providing Infrastructure: Data centers in Lebanon and Jordan

OSSCOM Partners Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences (Germany) Brunel University (UK) University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) German Jordanian University (Jordan) Yarmouk University (Jordan) CNAM-Liban, Lebanese University (Lebanon) Notre Dame University (Lebanon) Tarent (Germany) Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Information Technology International (Jordan) Information Management Limited (Lebanon)

OSSCOM yearly conference

Open educational resources (OER) Open educational resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed documents and media that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes

Open educational resources (OER) OSSCOM produced OER for over ten training workshops One initiative in Lebanon (at NDU) Open educational resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed documents and media that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes

“ In software, in science, in technology, just like in education, if you give knowledge away openly and freely, you will still have it for yourself to use ”

Thank you Walid P. Karam, PhD University of Balamand, Al-Kurah, Lebanon WalidPKaram@gmail.com +961 3 246066 WalidKaram