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IDW 2016, 11–17 September 2016, Denver, Colorado, USA; attended by 840 data professionals and researchers from all disciplines and from across the globe.
IDW 2018, 5–8 November 2018, Gaborone, Botswana; attended by more than 850 international data professionals and researchers.

THE FOUNDING ORGANISATIONS WISH FOR INTERNATIONAL DATA WEEK TO BECOME A BIENNIAL MEETING PLACE FOR THE GLOBAL DATA COMMUNITY. WE ARE THEREFORE INVITING PROPOSALS TO HOST THE THIRD AND FOURTH EDITIONS OF THIS EXCITING EVENT IN SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2021 AND 2023 RESPECTIVELY.

The primary objective of the conference is to bring together a large and representative part of the global data community. IDW 2016 and 2018 were huge successes and we want to continue that trajectory and increase impact. These are important times in the world of data and we seek local partners and a venue that will help us communicate that buzz.

International Data Week is a global and inclusive event. The organisers are keen to engage with cities and countries where we have not held an IDW or related meeting before. The organisers encourage proposals from the global South; proposals from the global North should show how they will work with the organisers to maximise participation from LMICs. Wherever the proposal comes from it will be important to demonstrate how the partnership will advance to missions of the founding organisations, ensure the impact of IDW and enhance membership and engagement with the three organisations.

Applications should demonstrate that local hosts have access to a suitable venue; strong support from local organisations and government; good connections to universities, industry, and research organisations in the country and region; and solid financial support.

We envision IDW 2021 and 2023 as four-day events that integrate the activities of a SciDataCon international conference and an RDA Plenary Meeting. Each IDW is expected to include both research sessions and focused working meetings, as well as broad plenary sessions of general interest. The days before and after each event will be set aside for the business and governance meetings of CODATA, RDA, and WDS, and potentially other co-located meetings.

APPLICATION DEADLINE

Applications should be sent by email to all of the IDW founding organisation representatives listed below no later than 28th October 2019 in electronic format based on the details and template available in the IDW Guidelines document. Linked here

Applications should be addressed to:

Simon Hodson, CODATA Executive Director at simon@codata.org
Hilary Hanahoe, RDA Secretary General, at hilary.hanahoe@rda-foundation.org
Rorie Edmunds, WDS Acting Executive Director, at rorie.edmunds@icsu-wds.org

Taking place from 5-8 November 2018 in Gaborone, Botswana, P12 will be part of as part of International Data Week 2018, which will bring together data scientists, researchers, industry leaders, entrepreneurs, policymakers and data stewards from all disciplines and geographies across the globe.

Positioned in prominent areas at the Gaborone Convention Center, poster session participants will have high visibility with meeting attendees, especially during the coffee breaks, lunches and social events.

Notifications of acceptances will occur on 5 October 2018.

Note, if accepted, posters should be printed in vertical format with dimensions of 70cm x 100cm and must be printed and delivered to the event venue directly by applicants.

Submit your application today!

SciDataCon 2018: IDW18 Approved Sessions 

We are pleased to announce that the SciDatraCon2018 call for sessions is now closed, and the following sessions have been reviewed and approved:

• 124 Skills-development in an increasingly data-driven science environment: an African perspective – Ina Smith
• 125 Metadata for 2020 and Beyond: Collaborative approaches to advancing metadata – Clare Dean
• 127 Designing inclusive capacity development for those engaging with Agriculture and Nutrition data – Alan Stanley
• 129 Issues and best practices for data stewardship: recommendations for African countries and institutions – Kgomotso Moahi
• 131 Open data, open science in Agriculture and Nutrition a Case for Developing Countries – Irene Wambui Kimani
• 133 Frameworks for Agricultural Data Production and Education in Africa – The Role of the Data Revolution – Kiringai Kamau
• 135 Agriculture Data and Citizens in the African Open Research Data Space – Boniface Okelo Akuku
• 136 The Role of the Marginalised in Open Data Driven Innovation – Obwaya Mogire
• 137 Visualization and Pattern Recognition Techniques for Understanding – Data Wafula Muliaro
• 139 Data for Effective Humanitarian Decision-Making: Challenges and Opportunities – Tefera Darge Delbiso
• 149 Improving Data Repository Trustworthiness – Robert R Downs
• 150 Issues in the Relationships of Upstream Research Data to Downstream Innovation – Paul Uhlir
• 151 Building, managing and maintaining data and knowledge-sharing ecosystems for medium-sized research centres – Wiebke Toussaint
• 157 International Sanctions and Open Data: Overcoming Problematic Legacies – Louise Bezuidenhout
• 158 Measuring the Impact of Data Citation Practices in Research – Anwar Vahed
• 160 African Data Centres: Challenges and Opportunities – Alex M. de Sherbinin
• 162 Exploring Benefits (and Challenges) of a More Holistic Approach to Research Outputs – Martin Donnelly
• 164 Scientific Data Challenges for Sustainable Development –Sandy P Harrison
• 166 Data Revolution for Local Impact – Data Policy and Innovation Use Cases from Tanzania Zaituni – Anthony Kaijage
• 170 Multi-disciplinary data infrastructure for South African Research – Dale Peters
• 171 Open Research Data in Health and Population Research – Kobus Herbst
• 178 The Role of Early Career Researchers and Scientists in the Data Revolution – Alice Frémand
• 180 Biodiversity Data Management Safeguarding Species by 2040 – Raymond Katebaka
• 181 Motivations and recognition for good data stewardship – Marta Teperek
• 182 Research Data in the Arts and Humanities – Requirements, Needs, and Perspectives of Research Data and Research Infrastructures in the Digital Humanities – Jan Brase
• 183 Research data services on campus – Strategies, needs and experience at universities – Jan Brase
• 187 Applications and utilization of data in understanding the effect of changing weather and a warming climate over Africa – Mary-Jane Morongwa Bopape
• 188 Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Science, Research, and the Governance of Indigenous Data – Stephanie Carroll Rainie
• 190 From Data to Knowledge: A Policy Perspective – Paul Uhlir
• 191 Harnessing the power of the digital revolution: Data- and computation-driven research for Environmental Hazards – Carolynne Hultquist
• 192 Communal Data Access and Management – Tyng-Ruey Chuang
• 195 African perceptions of Open Science Amel Ghouila
• 196 Democratising Data Publishing: A Global Perspective – Chris Armit
• 197 Transboundary Data Sharing for Natural Resources Management in Africa and Elsewhere Monica – Sue Morrison
• 202 Open Land Data Platforms: applications, progress and challenges – Mercy Mwanikah Ojoyi
• 203 Big Data Challenges in the Biomedical field – Nicky Mulder
• 206 Data Science and Data Analysis – Health Research Data – Kagiso Ndlovu
• 207 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Data at the Subnational Level – Nicholas Weber
• 208 Repositories: Are we serving our scientists? Cross-learnings from multiple disciplines – Elaine M. Faustman
• 210 Preservation of personal biodiversity data collections – Mosepele Boiditswe
• 211 Citizen Science Data – from Collection to Curation to Management – Alex M. de Sherbinin
• 212 Data Transport for the Long Neck of Research – Tiwonge Msulira Banda
• 213 Libraries’ Application of Data Intelligence – Wouter Klapwijk
• 214 Cross disciplinary drone data: challenges and opportunities – Jane Wyngaard
• 215 New and Emerging Technologies in Agriculture – Lindsay Barbieri
• 219 Counting People to Leave No One Behind: Why we need a data revolution – Bill Anderson
• 221 An Action Plan for Agriculture and Nutrition Open Data in Africa – Muchiri Nyaggah
• 222 Health Databases across the African Continent: What do we have and what do we need for Sustainable Development? – Claudia I. Emerson
• 223 Data interoperability in chemistry, biology, and crystallography: Enabling multidisciplinary solutions to societal challenges – Ian Bruno
• 224 Using Data to Connect Resources to Results for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – Jennifer D Turner
• 225 Data Librarianship: Bridging the Gap between Educational Provision and Workforce Requirements – Armin Straube
• 226 Learning to build cultural practices for sharing data and knowledge inside the academy and beyond – Mark Parsons
• 229 Turning FAIR Data Into Reality: discussion, critique and implementation – Simon Hodson
• 230 Dialogue and Coordination Between National Statistical Offices and University Research Data Repositories in Developing Countries – Samuel Kobina Annim
• 232 Data Integration for Science – a major global challenge for interdisciplinary research – Simon Hodson
• 235 The African Universities Response to the Challenges of the Data Revolution – Margareth Gfrerer
• 236 Data Science for CyberSecurity – Vukosi Marivate
• 237 Data for Good: Moving beyond data – Vukosi Marivate
• 238 The impact of data revolution on science and technology education and research in Africa: the perspective of bioinformatics – Faisal Mohamed Fadlelmola
• 242 Visualization and Exploration tools for unconventional datasets – Suresh Vannan
• 243 Data Skills Initiatives With Links to the Global South – Sarah Jones
• 244 Sharing lessons on data science teaching techniques, methods and materials – Hugh Shanahan
• 245 Challenges in Achieving Legal Interoperability of Research Data – Robert Chen
• 246 Global Platform(s) on Big Data in Agriculture – Elizabeth Leake
• 247 Spatial Data for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Africa – Alex M. de Sherbinin
• 249 Building Efficient Capacity for Resilience and Sustainable Development Through Community and Collaborative Data Collection and Sharing – Komlan Richard Folly
• 251 Space-Based Earth Observation Data and Application for Development – Kofi Asare
• 252 Delivering a Global Open Science Commons – Simon Hodson
• 256 From Galaxies to The Global Goals: using Data Skills for Development – Kevin Govender
• 258 Ethics and the Power of Data in Global Health: Specifying Our Obligations – Claudia I Emerson
• 260 Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Discovery: A DATA Perspective Steve – Jonathan Brewer
• 262 Open Data from Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, how far are we? – Augustina Frimpong
• 264 General Submissions – Mustapha Mokrane 

Visit https://www.scidatacon.org/conference/IDW2018/approved_sessions/ for more details. 

Abstracts for papers and posters can be submitted on the SciDataCon website at: http://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/submit 

Session proposals should be made on the SciDataCon website at: http://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/

• the digital frontiers of global science;
• a global and inclusive data revolution;
• applications, progress and challenges of data intensive research;
• data infrastructure and enabling practices for international and collaborative research.

• Deadline for session proposals [EXTENDED]: 19 February 2017
• Selected sessions will be notified by 28 February 2018.
• Call for abstracts will be released  1 March 2018
• Deadline for abstracts submission: 30 April 2018
• Target for confirmation of accepted abstracts, 31 May 2018.

For this data conference taking place in Africa and which will contain as one of its major themes the issues around data for the sustainable development goals and data for innovation, we felt it was important to avoid the clash with the UN Forum.  Similarly, the use of earth observation and remote sensing data will be an important theme in International Data Week and GEO (including major flagships, the Data Sharing Working Group and AfriGEOSS) is an important partner of the organisers and was a sponsor of the first International Data Week in Denver in 2016.

The organisers regret any difficulties this may cause to our community and participants.  However, as we still have 11 months to go before the event, we felt the date could be changed without excessive inconvenience and that it was important to act as good citizens and partners and – to the extent possible – avoid direct competition with related events.

International Data Week comprises SciDataCon http://www.scidatacon.org/, a conference for research and practice papers addressing all aspects of data in research, and the 12th Plenary Meeting of the Research Data Alliance https://rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-twelfth-plenary-meeting-part-international-data-week-2018-gaborone-botswana

In line with the change of date the deadline for session proposals for SciDataCon has been extended to Friday 2 February 2018: http://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/

Please consult the call for session proposals http://www.scidatacon.org/conference/IDW2018/call_for_sessions/ and the conference themes at http://www.scidatacon.org/conference/IDW2018/conference_themes_and_scope/

Related events associated with CODATA, WDS, RDA and the Botswana Open Data Open Science Forum will change dates accordingly.  The CODATA General Assembly will take place on 9-10 November 2018.

The organisers of International Data Week are:

• The University of Botswana on behalf of the Botswana Open Data Open Science Forum
• CODATA, the Committee on Data of the International Council of Science (ICSU) http://www.codata.org/
• The ICSU World Data System https://www.icsu-wds.org/
• The Research Data Alliance https://rd-alliance.org/