The special session we convened at the 10th Science Summit, taking place alongside the 79th UN General Assembly in New York, offered a fantastic opportunity to facilitate multi-stakeholder dialogues concerning the advancement of open science policies and practises at national and regional levels across the Arab States. It also served to underscore one of our driving objectives – to foreground the visibility of Arab voices and Arab viewpoints in global discussions around open science while also highlighting the importance of localisation, of empowering local institutions and policymakers to meet the needs of their local communities, and of producing localised resources and strategies to achieve this aim.
The event was moderated by our Director and Founder, Dr Emily Choynowski, and we were honoured to have an amazing array of panelists from across the region, including:
- His Excellency Dr Aram Mohammed Qadir, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research – Kurdistan Regional Government (Keynote)
- Dr Faisal Mohamed Elabdli, Director General – Libyan Authority for Scientific Research (Keynote)
- Professor Ahmed Hassan Fahal, MBBS, FRCS, FRCSI, FRCS (Glas), FRCP (London), Professor of Surgery, The Mycetoma Research Centre, University of Khartoum, Vice-President of the Federation of Arab Scientific Research Councils
- Dr. Hisham M. Sabir, Executive Director – Scientific Research Programs Office, Qatar Research, Development and Innovation Council
- Dr Lamis Yahia Mohamed Elkheir, Co-Director – African Reproducibility Network (AREN)
- Dr Mohammed Hussein Ahmed, Head of the Apparatus of Supervision and Quality Assurance – Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research Kurdistan Regional Government
- Kamran Kardan, CEO of Knowledge E and Chairman of the Knowledge E Foundation
The recording of this 2 hour session, with complete Arabic subtitles, is now available. And once again we thank all of our panelists for sharing their extremely valuable insights. The introductory welcome, and the two keynotes take place from 0:30 to 39:00. The moderated discussion takes place from 39:50 to 2:04:40.
A full report of the outcomes of the session will be published shortly, but in the meantime we hope you will find the video, and the thought-provoking discussions it contains, interesting.
