Slides from a presentation on open research data at a seminar organised by TERI in Delhi on December 22, 2015.

1. Seminar on Open Access in Research
December 22, 2015
Appraching Open Research
via Open Data
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
sumandro@cis-india.org

2. The Centre for Internet and Society
cis-india.org
Established in 2008. Offices in Bengaluru and Delhi.
Works on issues of Internet governance and telecommunication policy,
open knowledge and accessibility, privacy and cyber-security.
My work focuses on openness and e-governance policies, and critical
research on internet and society in India.
Works on Openness
– Open Government Data Study: India
– Open Data Intermediaries in Developing Countries
– Responses to NDSAP, interoperability framework, DBT-DST OA policy
– Open data workshop with officials of Government of Sikkim

3. Open Access Dialogues
2012-2013
Organised by The African Commons Project, the Centre for Internet and
Society, and Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. Hosted at WSIS
Knowledge Communities Discussion Forum.
– The developing world has been badly served by the scholarly
publishing system inherited from the 20th century
– Global Open access policy moved forward decisively from late
2011 to early 2013, with UNESCO’s launch of its Open Access to
Scientific Information Programme and the World Bank’s launch of its
Open Knowledge Platform.
– In the face of these developments, the developing countries, which
currently tend to have fragmented OA and research communication
policies, face the risk of falling even further behind.

4. Open Access Dialogues (Continued)
2012-2013
Need for Broader Vision of Open Access
– OA should align with other forms of ‘open’ agendas, such as open
science, open data, open education and open development
– OA policies should support distribution and re-usage of a wider
range of research outputs.
More: http://cis-india.org/openness/open-access-dialogues-report

5. Open Research Data
Things to Do
– Getting government to open up data relevant to research
– Opening up academic research data
– Sectoral conversations on data standards: technical and semantic
Things to Think of
– Open data as bridge across disciplinary communities
– Quantification of life and the widening sphere of research data
– Academic research and public life

13. Seminar on Open Access in Research
December 22, 2015
Thank you
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
sumandro@cis-india.org