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<p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><img src="http://www.codata.org/uploads/images/idw2018_new.png" alt="" width="600" height="248" style="margin: 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: middle; text-decoration: none;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Register at<span> </span><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold"><a href="http://www.internationaldataweek.org/registration" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(59,102,60)">http://www.internationaldataweek.org/registration</a></strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Registration is now officially open for International Data Week 2018 (IDW 2018) in Gaborone, Botswana from 5-8 November 2018.  Take advantage of early bird pricing by registering at the link below prior to 30 September 2018. Reduced pricing is also available for students and attendees originating from and who are also based in<span> </span><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold"><a href="http://www.oecd.org/dac/financing-sustainable-development/development-finance-standards/DAC_List_ODA_Recipients2014to2017_flows_En.pdf" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(59,102,60)">low and middle income countries</a></strong>.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Co-organized by the Botswana Open Data Open Science Forum represented by<span> </span><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold"><a href="https://www.ub.bw/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(59,102,60)">University of Botswana</a></strong><span> </span>(UB), the<span> </span><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold"><a href="https://www.assaf.org.za/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(59,102,60)">Academy of Science of South Africa</a></strong><span> </span>(ASSAf), the<span> </span><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold"><a href="http://www.codata.org/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(59,102,60)">Committee on Data</a>(CODATA) of the<span> </span><a href="https://council.science/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(59,102,60)">International Science Council</a></strong><span> </span>(ISC), the ISC<span> </span><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold"><a href="http://www.worlddatasystems.com/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(59,102,60)">World Data Systems</a></strong><span> </span>(WDS), and the<span> </span><a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(59,102,60)">Research Data Alliance</a><span> </span>(RDA), this landmark event combines the 12th RDA Plenary Meeting, SciDataCon 2018 and numerous other co-located events hosted by data-focused organisations from around the globe.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">With the theme ‘The Digital Frontiers of Global Science’, IDW 2018 will be a rich week of science and data, filled with plenary sessions and panel discussions<span> </span><a href="http://internationaldataweek.org/speakers-0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(59,102,60)">featuring many renowned international data experts</a><span> </span>including:</p><ul style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;list-style:none;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><li dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Rob Adam, South African Radio Astronomy Observatory and Square Kilometre Array</p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Phaik Yeong Cheah, University of Oxford and Wellcome Research Programme, Bangkok</p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory</p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Fosca Giannotti, Research at the Information Science and Technology Institute</p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Jörg Helmschrot, Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL)</p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Elizabeth Marincola, African Academy of Sciences</p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Tshilidzi Marwala, University of Johannesburg</p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Simeon Materechera, North West University</p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Joy Phumaphi, African Leaders Malaria Alliance</p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Ismail Serageldin, Bibliotheca Alexandrina</p></li></ul><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Breakout sessions will be another key component of IDW 2018, featuring more than 60 separate meetings which will be led by the RDA, WDS and CODATA member communities to address key issues and trends in the data community. The detailed programme listing these breakouts will be announced in the coming days.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-align:center"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold">Don’t wait.</strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-align:center"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold">Register soon and join us in beautiful Botswana for a week filled with collaboration, idea-sharing and innovation.</strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-align:center"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold">More information at<span> </span><a href="http://internationaldataweek.org/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(59,102,60)">http://internationaldataweek.org/</a></strong></p><p style="text-align:left;margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Best,</p><p style="text-align:left;margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid S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<div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b>Applications are now open for the<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"> </span><a href="http://www.codata.org/working-groups/research-data-science-summer-schools/sao-paulo-2018" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">CODATA-RDA School of Research Data Science, Sao Paulo,</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"> which will take place at ICTP-SAIFR (ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research on<span> </span><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-aQJ" style="top: 2px; z-index: -1;">3-14 December 2018</span></span>: </span><a href="http://ictp-saifr.org/sis/datasci2018step0.php" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">deadline for applications,<span> </span><span class="gmail-aBn" style="border:none"><span class="gmail-aQJ" style="border:none">14 September</span></span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">.</span></b><br><br></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>What has CODATA done recently? </b><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1167846" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">CODATA Prospectus, Strategy and Acheivement</a></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Find out what’s happening! </b><a href="http://lists.codata.org/mailman/listinfo/codata-international_lists.codata.org" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Sign up to the CODATA International News List</a></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Looking for training and career opportunities in data science and data stewardship?</b>  <a href="http://lists.codata.org/mailman/listinfo/data_science_training_lists.codata.org" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Sign up to the CODATA community-run data science training and careers list</a></div>

</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);word-wrap:break-word">___________________________</div></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Asha Law | Program Assistant, CODATA | <a href="http://www.codata.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.codata.org</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">E-Mail: <a href="mailto:asha@codata.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">asha@codata.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Tel (Office): +33 1 45 25 04 96</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">CODATA (Committee on Data of the International Council for Science), 5 rue Auguste Vacquerie, 75016 Paris, FRANCE</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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