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Public consultations for Canada's 2020-2022 National Action Plan on Open Government

Public consultations for Canada's 2020-2022 National Action Plan on Open Government will begin in March 2020.

There will be in-person consultations in Ottawa on March 3 and March 5, with other events and consultation methods to follow.

From March 2 to May 1, 2020, we’ll be connecting with Canadians online and across the country. Our goal is to hear what Canadians coast to coast to coast want to see in our next plan.

from Creating Canada’s 2020-22 National Action Plan on Open Government

There is a specific in-person events page.

You can also sign up for a mailing list or follow @OpenGovCan on Twitter.

UPDATE 2020-03-05: Online consultation is now available, including a specific thematic area for your feedback about Canada's open government directions for open science.  END UPDATE

Disclaimer: I worked on the Open Science commitments in the National Action Plans on Open Government from September 2014 to October 2019.

UNESCO launches a global consultation to develop a Recommendation on Open Science

UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science will be prepared through a regionally balanced, multistakeholder, inclusive and transparent consultation process.  This process is guided by an Open Science Advisory Committee and is expected to lead to the adoption of the Recommendation by UNESCO Member States in 2021.

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All Open Science stakeholders, including scientists and scientific institutes, science publishers, science policy makers etc., are encouraged to participate and  to share their insights [through] a global survey.

from UNESCO launches a global consultation to develop a standard-setting instrument on Open Science

UNESCO has a Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) with a great deal of information about open access worldwide.  They also provide a series of learning modules about open access.

Roadmap for Open Science from the Chief Science Advisor of Canada

Canada's Chief Science Advisor, Dr. Mona Nemer, has released her Roadmap for Open Science.

This roadmap is a set of ten recommendations to the Government of Canada.

To understand the sequence of what happens next, Recommendation 3 specifies the creation of departmental Open Science Action Plans.

departments and agencies should develop action plans for Open Science by October 2020

It's those action plans that will determine departmental implementations of the recommendations.

That being said, the Roadmap calls for common government-wide approaches for recommendation 4 on open access and recommendation 5 on FAIR data.

federal science community should use a common approach to achieving [these] recommendation[s]

These recommendations read, in part

4. Federal departments and agencies should make federal science articles* openly accessible by January 2022 and federal science publications* openly accessible by January 2023, while respecting privacy, security, ethical considerations and appropriate intellectual property protection.

This recommendation aims to achieve Open Access by default without an embargo period.

5. Federal departments and agencies should develop strategies and tools to implement FAIR data principles to ensure interoperability of scientific and research data* and metadata standards by January 2023, with a phased plan for full implementation by January 2025.

There is a proposed governance mechanism, which reads in part

8. ... a new high-level Open Science Steering Committee co-chaired by the Chief Science Advisor and either or both the Chief Information Officer of Canada and the President of Shared Services Canada.

The terms of reference and relationship structure with departments and agencies should be developed by June 2020.

The Roadmap is available online in both official languages:

• Roadmap for Open Science - or direct PDF download / Feuille de route pour la science ouverte - document PDF

There was a press release: Roadmap for Open Science to reduce barriers and speed up discovery / Feuille de route pour la science ouverte visant à réduire les obstacles et à accélérer les découvertes.

SIDEBAR: Both the Roadmap for Open Science and departmental Open Science Action Plans are milestones in the Open Science commitment in the Government of Canada's 2018-2020 National Action Plan on Open Government.  END SIDEBAR

Disclaimer: I worked on the Open Science commitments in the National Action Plans on Open Government from September 2014 to October 2019.

Previously:
January 10, 2019  Open Science in Canada's 2018-2020 Open Government Plan