[CODATA-international] Elizabeth Marincola, Senior Advisor for Communications and Advocacy at the African Academy of Sciences, to give a keynote at International Data Week 2018

Asha CODATA asha at codata.org
Wed Jun 20 03:56:33 EDT 2018


The organisers and programme committee are very pleased to announce that
Elizabeth Marincola, Senior Advisor for Communications and Advocacy at the
African Academy of Sciences, will give a keynote presentation at the
International Data Week 2018, 5-8 November, Gaborone, Botswana

Marincola is a longtime leader of science publishing, advocacy, education,
communication and policy. She is Senior Advisor for Communications and
Advocacy at the African Academy of Sciences, a pan-African organization
dedicated to the advancement of quality science across the Continent. At
AAS, she is leading the development and launch of AAS Open Research, an
innovative, transparent publishing platform. Marincola prior served as CEO
of PLOS, publisher of the world’s largest open access journal. She was
President of the Society for Science & the Public, Publisher of Science
News, and Executive Director of the American Society for Cell Biology. She
has served on multiple national and international advisory committees and
boards, including the Board of Directors of eLife and the Strategic
Planning Committee for the NIH National Library of Medicine. Marincola
received the (U.S.) Presidential Award for Excellence in Science,
Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, and currently serves on the Advisory
Board of the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health. She received her
A.B. from Stanford University and MBA from Stanford University Graduate
School of Business
We will be announcing other confirmed keynotes over the next few days!

*The deadline for proposals for papers and abstracts for the SciDataCon
component of International Data Week is fast approaching (Deadline 25 June)*

   - Submit Abstracts for Papers and Posters:
*https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/submit/
   <https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/submit/>*
   - Call for Papers and Posters:
*https://www.scidatacon.org/conference/IDW2018/call_for_papers/
   <https://www.scidatacon.org/conference/IDW2018/call_for_papers/>*
   - Provisionally Accepted Sessions:
*https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/sessions/
   <https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/sessions/>*
   - Themes and Scope of SciDataCon:
*https://www.scidatacon.org/conference/IDW2018/conference_themes_and_scope/
   <https://www.scidatacon.org/conference/IDW2018/conference_themes_and_scope/>*


Best,
Asha


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