<div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(68,68,68)">The organisers and programme committee are very pleased to announce that Ismail Serageldin, Founding Director of the Founding Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, will give a keynote presentation at the CODATA 2017 International Conference ‘Global Challenges and Data-Driven Science’, 8-13 October, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(68,68,68)"> </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(68,68,68)">ISMAIL SERAGELDIN, Founding Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA), the <img src="http://www.codata.org/uploads/images/Serageldin.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top; float: right;">new Library of Alexandria, inaugurated in 2002, is currently, Emeritus Librarian, and member of the Board of Trustees of the Library of Alexandria. He is advisor to the Egyptian Prime Minister in matters concerning culture, science, and museums. He serves as Chair and Member of a number of advisory committees for academic, research, scientific and international institutions, including as co-Chair of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center (NGIC), and serves on the Advisory Committee of the World Social Science Report for 2013 and 2016, as well as the UNESCO-supported World Water Scenarios (2013) and the executive council of the Encyclopedia of Life (2010) and Chairs the Executive Council of the World Digital Library (2010).  He has held many international positions including as Vice President of the World Bank (1993–2000). He also co-chaired the African Union’s high level panel for Biotechnology (2006) and again for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in 2012-2013, and was a member of the ICANN Panel for the review of the internet future (2013). </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(68,68,68)"> </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"><a href="http://www.codata.org/news/182/62/Announcing-some-of-the-eminent-CODATA-2017-Keynote-Speakers" style="color:rgb(59,102,60);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:none">Other confirmed keynotes are announced </a><a href="http://www.codata.org/news/182/62/Announcing-some-of-the-eminent-CODATA-2017-Keynote-Speakers" style="color:rgb(59,102,60);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:none">here</a></strong> and on the conference website <strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"><a href="http://codata2017.gcras.ru/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(59,102,60);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:none">http://codata2017.gcras.ru/</a></strong></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(68,68,68)"> </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">Deadline for Session Proposals and Abstracts for Presentations, 28 July</strong></div><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The deadline for to propose conference sessions and papers is now only one week away 28 July: see <strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"><a href="http://conference.codata.org/2017/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(59,102,60);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:none">http://conference.codata.org/2017/</a></strong></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px">-------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">CODATA 2017 International Conference, ‘Global Challenges and Data-Driven Research’, Saint-Petersburg, 8-13 October, Registration and Information: <a href="http://codata2017.gcras.ru/" target="_blank">http://codata2017.gcras.ru/</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">CODATA 2017 International Conference, ‘Global Challenges and Data-Driven Research’, Now Accepting Proposals for Sessions and Papers: <a href="http://conference.codata.org/2017/" target="_blank">http://conference.codata.org/2017/</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">What has CODATA delivered recently? See the CODATA Prospectus: Strategy and Achievement, 2015-2016 <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.165830" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.165830</a></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Asha Law | Program Assistant, CODATA | <a href="http://www.codata.org/" target="_blank">http://www.codata.org</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">E-Mail: <a href="mailto:asha@codata.org" target="_blank">asha@codata.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">Tel (Office): +33 1 45 25 04 96</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">CODATA (Committee on Data of the International Council for Science), 5 rue Auguste Vacquerie, 75016 Paris, FRANCE</div></div></div></div></div>
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