From Bernd.Stahl at nottingham.ac.uk Wed Jun 4 11:54:54 2025 From: Bernd.Stahl at nottingham.ac.uk (Bernd Stahl) Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2025 10:54:54 +0000 Subject: [Responsible-digital-futures] RDF research presentation next week - Standardisation and digital identity architectures Message-ID: Dear all, I would like to invite you to next week's monthly research presentation of the RDF. This one will be given by Prof. Yoshiaki Fukami who is currently a visitor at the RDF. Details on the presentation and Yoshiaki can be found here: https://www.responsible-digital-futures.org/news-and-blogs/2025-06-11-yoshiaki looking forward to seeing you next Wednesday, 11/06/2025 at 11am BST. 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Best wishes Suchith Professor Suchith Anand Professor of Practice in Science Policy | Senior Adviser to Governments and International Organisations | Scientist | Global Citizen | Science Diplomacy | SDG Volunteer and Advocate https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/43268-suchith-anand https://ethicaldatainitiative.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Bernd.Stahl at nottingham.ac.uk Tue Jun 10 18:04:04 2025 From: Bernd.Stahl at nottingham.ac.uk (Bernd Stahl) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 17:04:04 +0000 Subject: [Responsible-digital-futures] RDF research presentation next week - Standardisation and digital identity architectures In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi all, A quick reminder of tomorrow's RDF meeting. Kind regards, Bernd From: Responsible-digital-futures On Behalf Of Bernd Stahl Sent: 04 June 2025 11:55 To: responsible-digital-futures at lists.nottingham.ac.uk Subject: [Responsible-digital-futures] RDF research presentation next week - Standardisation and digital identity architectures Dear all, I would like to invite you to next week's monthly research presentation of the RDF. This one will be given by Prof. Yoshiaki Fukami who is currently a visitor at the RDF. Details on the presentation and Yoshiaki can be found here: https://www.responsible-digital-futures.org/news-and-blogs/2025-06-11-yoshiaki looking forward to seeing you next Wednesday, 11/06/2025 at 11am BST. Kind regards, Bernd Bernd Carsten STAHL Professor of Critical Research in Technology Responsible Digital Futures Group School of Computer Science UNIVERSITY of NOTTINGHAM T: +44 7952 875 862 E: bernd.stahl at nottingham.ac.uk W: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/computerscience/people/bernd.stahl [cid:image001.jpg at 01DBDA32.0D6367C0] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 33075 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: From suchith.anand at ethicaldatainitiative.org Mon Jun 23 13:53:55 2025 From: suchith.anand at ethicaldatainitiative.org (Suchith Anand) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 13:53:55 +0100 Subject: [Responsible-digital-futures] Fwd: CfP: FOR 2026 - The Future of Open Research In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear colleagues, This CfP might be of interest. Details below. Best wishes Suchith Professor Suchith Anand Professor of Practice in Science Policy | Senior Adviser to Governments and International Organisations | Scientist | Global Citizen | Science Diplomacy | SDG Volunteer and Advocate https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/43268-suchith-anand https://ethicaldatainitiative.org ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Sabina Leonelli Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 at 10:51 Subject: CfP: FOR 2026 - The Future of Open Research To: professorships.sts at sot.tum.de *Call for Papers - FOR 2026 Conference: The Future of Open Research: Reliable, Responsible, Equitable* *4-6 May 2026, Institute for Advanced Studies, Technical University of Munich* Conference URL with preliminary information and submission guidelines: https://opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-conference/ The future of open research is uncertain. On the one hand, decades of activism and institutional support have placed the value and significance of intelligent strategies and formats for open research (and its dissemination) beyond doubt. Openness is central to the development of trustworthy, accountable, collaborative and socially engaged knowledge. On the other hand, open research measures need to be tailored to diverse research conditions around the globe and across domains, which in turn requires substantial investment, local engagement, responsiveness to the ethical and social dimensions of inquiry, and attention to diversity, equity, and inclusion. While the implementation of open science principles is certainly facilitated by ever more accessible digital technologies and training programmes, for many researchers around the world acquiring the expertise and skills to engage in open research practices remains elusive. Exposure to open research initiatives often happens as an end-user rather than as an active contributor. This is because well-resourced environments produce the tools, set the research goals, define the standards and methods, which leads to them benefitting disproportionally from the opportunities. This makes even the best-intentioned projects into opportunities for the best resourced environments (which are often in charge of producing open science tools) to impose their own understanding of research goals, standards and methods on everybody else. Therefore, without domain- and location-specific input, the risk is that open research amplifies existing inequities and discrimination in the production, use and evaluation of knowledge, thereby inflicting damage to the research system instead of the promised improvements. And this is not to mention the ongoing debates over how politically unpalatable open science may be, the extent to which open research has been appropriated by commercial entities such as large publishing companies and digital platforms, the fraught intersection between open science and artificial intelligence, and the ongoing difficulties in supporting and maintaining open research activities and tools in the long term. This conference brings together scholars, activists and policymakers to consider this challenging landscape and discuss the future of open research. Our goal is to facilitate the development of open research practices explicitly geared to serve the public interest, which involves interrogating what may constitute that ?public interest? to different audiences and in different locations around the world. A central element for our discussions will be the development of a *Munich Manifesto for Equitable Open Research*, detailing ways to utilise open research to foster reliable, responsible, and equitable forms of inquiry. A draft text of the manifesto will be circulated two weeks before the conference to all participants, and one session of the conference will be dedicated to discussing and finalising the declaration and its possible signatories. We call for contributions by researchers across all fields of knowledge including the arts and humanities, policy-makers interested in research and development, representatives of scholarly and commercial institutions involved in research, and civil society associations engaged in knowledge production. Themes may include, but not be limited to: - Historical, philosophical and social studies of open research and its implementation - Ethics and research integrity in the context of open research - Bibliometric and other data-intensive investigations of open research - The use of AI in support of socially responsive and responsible forms of open research - Legal perspectives on open research implementations across different settings - Training and capacity building for responsive and responsible open research - Infrastructures and tools supporting responsive and responsible open research - Policy-making initiatives and recommendations for equitable open research - Contributions from the arts and humanities to represent open research in alternative formats *Contributions formats* Contributions may consist of abstracts for individual papers (including by large groups of co-authors where appropriate) and posters. The conference will be single stream so we will not have the opportunity to welcome panel proposals; we ask research groups and projects to please bring together their perspective and experiences within one talk, delivered jointly by a maximum of three individuals. *Abstracts* for both papers and posters are expected to be a *maximum of* *500 words* and should be accompanied by a *description of the authors? background* of *maximum 500 words* length. When submitting your proposal, you can choose whether you wish to be considered for a talk, a poster or both. The conference language is English. Session presenters of accepted proposals are expected to register for the conference (in-person attendance). Presentations will be recorded for posting online after the conference. *Submission* *We use OxfordAbstracts as a submission system. Please submit your contributions through the link provided on the conference website by 30 September 2025 (**https://opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-conference/* *) * *Important dates* - *Abstract submission deadline:* September 30, 2025 - *Notification of acceptance/rejection:* October 31, 2025 - *Deadline for early bird registration fees*: 31 January 2026 - *Conference date:* May 4-6, 2026, Munich, Germany *Accessibility of materials* It is expected that authors publish materials such as posters and presentation slides as well as session outcomes at least licensed as CC-BY 4.0 or CC-BY-SA 4.0 on Zenodo (you may reserve a DOI before) and make it available to the Future of Open Research Community (coming soon!). Sabina Leonelli Professor of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology, Technical University of Munich Director of Ethical Data Initiative Honorary Professor of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Exeter President-Elect of the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology Open Science Studies *Mail address:* School of Social Sciences and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Arcisstra?e 21, 80333 Munich, Germany -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From suchith.anand at ethicaldatainitiative.org Mon Jun 23 23:06:33 2025 From: suchith.anand at ethicaldatainitiative.org (Suchith Anand) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 23:06:33 +0100 Subject: [Responsible-digital-futures] Redefining Power: Data equity and its role in social justice Message-ID: Dear colleagues, You are invited to join us for the next episode in the Ethical Data Discussion Series on June 25, 2025. The Webinar will explore critical issues around data power, equity, and social justice in Africa and more widely. This panel event, Redefining Power: Data Equity and Its Role in Social Justice, is part of the Ethical Data Discussion Series, presented by the Association of African Universities, the University of Nottingham, and the Ethical Data Initiative. This discussion series serves as a platform for advancing ethical data practices and fostering critical dialogue within the African academic and research community. Through engaging discussions and interactive sessions, the initiative aims to empower stakeholders with the knowledge and tools to navigate ethical challenges in data-driven research and decision-making. Details at https://ethicaldatainitiative.org/2025/06/19/redefining-power-data-equity-and-its-role-in-social-justice/ Best wishes Suchith Professor Suchith Anand Professor of Practice in Science Policy | Senior Adviser to Governments and International Organisations | Scientist | Global Citizen | Science Diplomacy | SDG Volunteer and Advocate https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/43268-suchith-anand https://ethicaldatainitiative.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From suchith.anand at ethicaldatainitiative.org Thu Jun 26 19:37:16 2025 From: suchith.anand at ethicaldatainitiative.org (Suchith Anand) Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 19:37:16 +0100 Subject: [Responsible-digital-futures] Global Metascience Conference Message-ID: Dear colleagues, The Global Metascience Conference, this year based in London, will examine how scientific research is conducted, with the goal of enhancing research practices and outcomes. It aims to bring together researchers, funders, policymakers, and other stakeholders to share knowledge, foster community, and set priorities for future research and interventions. The conference will take place in London from June 30 to July 2, 2025, and is organised by Research on Research (RoRI) at University College London. Professor Sabina Leonelli, Scientific Director of the Ethical Data Initiative, will join a distinguished lineup of speakers, including Maria Leptin, President of the European Research Council; Patrick Vallance, UK Minister of Science and Innovation; and Anna Koivuniemi, Head of Google DeepMind Impact Accelerator, to discuss the role of AI in science. Sabina will also reference her contribution to the 2024 Royal Society study on Science in the Age of AI . 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Details at https://exeterclimateforum.com Held from June 30 to July 4, the forum?s events include the Exeter Climate Conference , the second Global Tipping Points Conference , meetings of global universities and dedicated events for policymakers and business leaders. Join us at the Exeter Climate Forum bringing together world-leading climate researchers, businesses, policymakers and young people, to shape and engage with the priorities for COP30 and beyond. Set in the stunning Devon countryside, this week of activities are designed to connect and inspire through bold ideas, discussion, and social events. 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