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style-textfill-fill-color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>Maheswar<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>Newark, DE, US             <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>-------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><strong><span style='color:#616161;letter-spacing:-.4pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>We welcome any and all contributions to these forums!</span></strong><span style='color:#616161;letter-spacing:-.4pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;padding:1.25rem;font-size:1rem'><strong><span style='color:#616161;letter-spacing:-.4pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>The UNESCO Consultation and Recommendation on Open Science</span></strong><span style='color:#616161;letter-spacing:-.4pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;padding:1.25rem;font-size:1rem'><span style='color:#616161;letter-spacing:-.4pt'>The practices of Open Science and calls for transformations of the way science is practiced, communicated and assessed have accelerated in the past two decades.  Leading transnational organizations including the <a href="https://council.science/actionplan/open-science/"><span style='color:#1875B2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>International Council for Science</span></a>, <a href="http://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/policy-responses/why-open-science-is-critical-to-combatting-covid-19-cd6ab2f9/"><span style='color:#1875B2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>OECD</span></a> and <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/index.cfm"><span style='color:#1875B2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>European Commission</span></a>, have recognized Open Science as the key mode for research in the 21st century.  Recognizing the significance of the movement, but also aware that in a ‘fragmented scientific and policy environment, a global understanding of the meaning, opportunities and challenges of Open Science is still missing’, <a href="https://en.unesco.org/science-sustainable-future/open-science"><span style='color:#1875B2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>UNESCO launched a global consultation in March 2020</span></a>.  This has as its objective ‘to build a coherent vision of Open Science and a shared set of overarching principles and shared values’ through the development of ‘an international standard-setting instrument on Open Science in the form of a UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science’ to be agreed at the UNESCO General Assembly in November 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;padding:1.25rem;font-size:1rem'><span style='color:#616161;letter-spacing:-.4pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>This is a precious opportunity for the worldwide research community to express priorities, report relevant experiences, and share visions for the future, thus helping to shape a new global order for research and its governance. A UNESCO Recommendation is a timely, important and urgent way to promote Open Science and provide concrete suggestions to national governments and research organizations, including scholarly societies, universities, and research groups.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:#616161;letter-spacing:-.4pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;padding:1.25rem;font-size:1rem'><strong><span style='color:#616161;letter-spacing:-.4pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Consultation on the Draft UNESCO Recommendation</span></strong><span style='color:#616161;letter-spacing:-.4pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;padding:1.25rem;font-size:1rem'><span style='color:#616161;letter-spacing:-.4pt'>The first draft of the UNESCO Recommendation was produced, on the basis of the consultation and supported by the UNESCO Open Science team, by an <a href="https://en.unesco.org/science-sustainable-future/open-science/advisory-committee"><span style='color:#1875B2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>international Open Science Advisory Committee</span></a>, and was <a href="https://en.unesco.org/news/milestone-unescos-development-global-recommendation-open-science?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OATP-Primary+%28OATP+primary%29"><span style='color:#1875B2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>published for consultation in early October 2020</span></a>.  Feedback on the draft Recommendation is invited from UNESCO Member States and from the global research community until the end of January 2021.  After that point, the Advisory Committee will resume its work to produce a second draft.  The revised draft, approved by the UNESCO Director General will be sent to Member States in April 2021.  This will be followed by a process of negotiation culminating, it is hoped, in the adoption of the text at the General Conference in November 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:#616161;letter-spacing:-.4pt'><img border=0 width=347 height=181 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D6DAF0.ECE0CCD0" alt="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/wVdFIKnxrsU4ZZ728sOqBOmg2SFuKXegTaCPbJe-PDx8VP729IgsErmEe-nd02xQWznAzY7gX7joaFoR2DFEv530uC9QJSTJsEXbFz1O4M08lbUx40m0hBVdrQ0u7rXook2KHviU"></span><span style='color:#616161;letter-spacing:-.4pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;padding:1.25rem;font-size:1rem'><span style='color:#616161;letter-spacing:-.4pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>The draft Recommendation offers a definition of Open Science and it presents a set of core values and principles.  Importantly, it lays out seven key areas of action, directed at Member States and other named stakeholders:</span><span style='color:#616161;letter-spacing:-.4pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;padding:1.25rem;font-size:1rem'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#616161;letter-spacing:-.4pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>              </span></span></span><![endif]><em><span style='color:#616161;letter-spacing:-.4pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Promoting a common understanding of Open Science and diverse paths to Open Science</span></em><span style='color:#616161;letter-spacing:-.4pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;padding:1.25rem;font-size:1rem'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#616161;letter-spacing:-.4pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>              </span></span></span><![endif]><em><span style='color:#616161;letter-spacing:-.4pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Developing an enabling policy environment for Open Science </span></em><span style='color:#616161;letter-spacing:-.4pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;padding:1.25rem;font-size:1rem'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#616161;letter-spacing:-.4pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>              </span></span></span><![endif]><em><span style='color:#616161;letter-spacing:-.4pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Investing in Open Science infrastructures</span></em><span style='color:#616161;letter-spacing:-.4pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;padding:1.25rem;font-size:1rem'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#616161;letter-spacing:-.4pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>4.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>              </span></span></span><![endif]><em><span style='color:#616161;letter-spacing:-.4pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Investing in capacity building for Open Science</span></em><span style='color:#616161;letter-spacing:-.4pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;padding:1.25rem;font-size:1rem'><![if !supportLists]><span style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