Global Open Science Cloud Workshop

Session

Global e-Infrastructures: Challenges and Opportunities in Achieving the GOSC Vision

4 Nov 2020, 11:15

http://go.egi.eu/zoom3 (code: 202011)

Conveners

Global e-Infrastructures: Challenges and Opportunities in Achieving the GOSC Vision

• Mark Dietrich (EGI Foundation)

Description

The objective of this session is to consider how existing e-Infrastructure resources can participate and support GOSC. International e-Infrastructure providers are invited to discuss their challenges in the international collaboration efforts (i.e., service provision, community support, standards in use), and identify challenges to this collaboration that might be addressed through GOSC.

14. Overview by the Chair

Mark Dietrich (Senior Advisor, EGI.eu)

04/11/2020, 11:15

15. African Infrastructure for GOSC: Challenges and Opportunities (Gold and Diamonds)

Happy Sithole (Center Manager, National Integrated Cyber-Infrastructure at CSIR-NICIS, South Africa)

04/11/2020, 11:20

16. The ARDC’s Nectar Research Cloud: Challenges and Opportunities for the GOSC

Rosie Hicks (CEO, Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC))

04/11/2020, 11:30

The Australian eResearch infrastructure landscape is complex, spanning multiple organisations that provide: discovery, analysis and curation tools; national information infrastructure services, such as identifiers; outreach, training, support, advice, consultation and policy; as well as the necessary underpinning infrastructure. The ARDC contributes to a number of these areas, including cloud...

17. Research e-infrastructure federation in China

Lili Zhang (International Project Manager, CSTCloud Department, CNIC, CAS)

04/11/2020, 11:40

18. Open Science in the Context of the Globalizing World

Natalia Manola (Managing Director, OpenAIRE; Member of EOSC Executive Board)

04/11/2020, 11:50

Digital transformation is stimulating research towards a more collaborative, global and open ecosystem, shifting the new paradigm of science towards openness, participation, transparency, and social impact. Even though this shift has started a few years already, it is still unclear how we can take and sustain it at the global level as we are missing consensus on essential elements of the...

19. EGI experience in supporting international scientific collaborations

Tiziana Ferrari (Director of EGI.eu)

04/11/2020, 12:00

In the past 15 years the EGI Federation has been supporting multiple research communities and scientific collaborations thanks to collaboration agreements with peer e-Infrastructure operators in the world which allow the EGI federation to be part of a integrated system of international research infrastructures by endorsing common policies, interoperability best practices and by coordinating...

30. Global Open Science -- challenges and opportunities for global networks

Erik Huizer (CEO, GÉANT)

04/11/2020, 12:10

20. Panel

Erik Huizer (CEO, GÉANT), Happy Sithole (Center Manager, CSIR-NICIS), Lili Zhang (CNIC), Natalia Manola (Managing Director, OpenAIRE), Rosie Hicks (CEO Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), ), Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.eu)

04/11/2020, 12:20

Focused questions:
-- What are the common opportunities for working with a GOSC?
-- What are the common challenges for international cooperation that GOSC can help with?