Full Paper Guidelines for the Open Session

This page is relevant only to those who have already been invited to develop their abstracts into a full paper.

 

 

DEADLINE for the Full Paper: 13 January 2014 (paper acceptance will be announced 10 March 2014)

PAPER STRUCTURE

Papers should be submitted using the prescribed template in Microsoft Word format (*.doc or *.docx) and sent to the Session Leaders (Denisa Kera AND Sachiko Hirosue) with a copy to Tech4Dev [ at ] epfl.ch no later 13 January 2014.

Papers should be clear, concise and written in English. The English must be well written and should be checked by someone well versed in writing in English.

Please note that only papers adhering to the above guidelines (content, structure, and format) will be accepted. The decision of the Scientific Committee is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

By submitting a full paper the authors agree that at least one of the authors will attend the conference to present it. All presenting authors, MUST be paid registrants no later than 30 April 2014.

 

CONTENT

We would like your content to specifically address the conference theme "What is Essential?" -

What are the successful processes to develop and deploy essential technologies?

 

In this breakout session, we will be addressing the question posed as in the call for abstracts:

Please reflect on your work to draw out discussions as highlighted below.

 

The Openness Paradigm: How Synergies Between Open Access, Open Data, Open Science, Open Source Hardware, Open Drug Discovery Support Development?

This panel will bring together pioneers and practitioners of various open approaches in science and technology to discuss the opportunities, challenges and synergies in supporting South to South and South to North cooperation for development. Citizen science activities in Yogyakarta (Indonesia) and Bangalore (India) for environmental monitoring, projects, such as the Open Drug Discovery for malaria (Australia) and Open Genomic Data for disaster response (China), but also Open Hardware innovation for affordable laboratory equipment around the world (DIYbio and hackteria networks) define a new paradigm, which needs reflection and evaluation. One of the aims of this panel is to create visibility for these projects, which are successful in their local context, but would benefit from more feedback and support by the international community. They offer a new paradigm for defining an International Development agenda for science and technology cooperation, which involves the Global South as an equal partner. The panel will map and reflect upon these initiatives and case studies. We would like to understand the opportunities and problems these initiatives and networks face and define best practices as well as policy recommendations to support these trends. While some projects concentrate on building research infrastructure and networks around open source technologies, other emphasize the power of crowdsourcing and various e-science and citizen science models of work, which involve the citizens in various data collection practices. These initiatives and projects offer unique opportunities not only for developing countries, but also original models for global scientific collaborations.