Webinar on Enablers for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) – Early examples and synergies | 23 June

Webinar on Enablers for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) – Early examples and synergies for the EU and India

Dear All,  With great pleasure we invite you to register for our 27th webinar in the knowledge sharing series under the aegis of the India-EU Partnership Project on Collaboration for ICT Standardisation. Details of the 27th webinar in this series is as follows: Topic: "Enablers for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) – Early examples and synergies for the EU and India." Abstract: On the basis of the first session of this webinar series which provided a general overview of key priorities in an EU-India cooperation and business opportunities in the broader context of AI, this webinar intends to explore enablers for 4IR solutions and technologies in India and Europe. Both are ready and planning to join the 4IR. Therefore, the webinar will explore the business insights, role of enablers like 5G, IoT and AI and possible cooperation areas that India and EU can work together at business and policy level to further enable both sides to prosper and progress together. On the basis of insights gained in session 01 of the webinar series, this webinar aims to:   Adopt a thematic focus (4IR) within which the overarching topic of business cooperation in the ICT sector and AI, IoT and 5G segment can be explored at a deeper level leading to concrete observations on prevalent opportunities and relevant areas of business support; Identify key areas of cooperation which feed into the on-going policy dialogue in this regard and, in this setting Define potential follow-up activities for increased EU-India business collaboration in 4IR related subsectors of ICT Agenda and Speakers Schedule: June 23rd, 2020 | 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM IST Register Now If you have any queries, regarding the webinar please contact: sachin.ICTstandards@gmail.com  Best regards  Andreas Sommer Team Leader and Senior Technical Advisor  Project "India-EU Cooperation on ICT-Related Standardisation, Policy and Legislation" Web: http://www.IndiaEU-ICTStandards.in                      Copyright © 2020 India EU ICT Standardisation Collaboration Project, All rights reserved. You are part of our list as you may have met us in our project events or one to one meetings. Our mailing address is: India EU ICT Standardisation Collaboration Project India-EU ICT Project Team H 221, 405, Infinity Business Park, Sector 63 Noida 201307 India

New Article "Pathways for Sustainable Urban Waste Management and Reduced Environmental Health Risks in India: Winners, Losers, and Alternatives to Waste to Energy in Delhi" by P Randhawa, F Marshall, PK Kushwaha, and PN Desai

Pathways for Sustainable Urban Waste Management and Reduced Environmental Health Risks in India: Winners, Losers, and Alternatives to Waste to Energy in Delhi

by Pritpal Randhawa, Fiona Marshall, Pravin Kumar Kushwaha, and Pranav Desai. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2020, Volume 2, Article 14.
Abstract: This paper examines the shift toward centralized waste-to-energy (WTE) as a singular solution to Delhi's solid waste crisis and describes a transdisciplinary research process that sought to understand how and why this dominant waste management pathway emerged. It also sought to engage with and facilitate debate on the potential for alternative waste management pathways, which may better address combined environmental and social justice concerns. We explain the emergence of a transforming narrative that reframed waste from a risk to a resource, reflecting and reinforcing the dominant trajectory of socio-technical-ecological change in urban development, and reconfiguring waste related infrastructure to involve public private participation and WTE technology. Drawing on empirical studies, involving local residents, wastepickers associations, NGOs, and government officials, we discuss implications of WTE projects in Delhi. We argue that the current WTE focused approach, without modification, may simply displace health hazards across time, space and social groups and exacerbate social justice concerns. The dominant narrative on waste management priorities appear to make certain health risks protected and recognized whilst others are made invisible. We make the case for possible alternative waste management scenarios, institutional and regulatory arrangements that may better address environmental health and social justice concerns. These are summarized under eight principles for reframing urban waste management policy challenges in the context of sustainable urban development. These principles include a reframing of waste management through a sustainability lens that links currently divergent initiatives on environmental health and social justice. It involves an appreciation of complex socio-material flows of waste, the need to move beyond perspectives of waste management as an environmental policy issue alone, appreciation in policy development that the informal sector will remain a key player despite attempts to formalize waste management and the need to provide incentives for diverse waste management strategies that move beyond the private.

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COVID-19: Should Europe Embrace Frugality? by S Bhaduri and P Knorringa

COVID-19: Should Europe Embrace Frugality?
by Saradindu Bhaduri and Peter Knorringa, 15 June 2020
In CFIA's GoFrugal blog series affiliated researchers reflect on the role of frugality and frugal innovation in times of Corona in different parts of the world. Read Full-Text

Other Recent Articles

• Pathways for Sustainable Urban Waste Management and Reduced Environmental Health Risks in India: Winners, Losers, and Alternatives to Waste to Energy in Delhi; by Pritpal Randhawa, Fiona Marshall, Pravin Kumar Kushwaha, and Pranav Desai. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2020, Volume 2, Article 14.
• Zooming Towards a University Platform, by R. D'Souza, 2020. 

Webinar on Online Learning and Teaching: Issues & Trends | 19th June

AC Joshi Library, Panjab University is organising its first  and Inaugural Webinar on "Online Learning and Teaching: Issues & Trends" on 19.06.2020 from 10 am to 12 noon. 

The programme is specially designed for academicians across the disciplines in the changing scenario of teaching and learning due to Covid19 and beyond. 

The Programme will be inaugurated by Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice-Chancellor with his presidential/inaugural remarks. The speakers of the webinar are:

1. Prof. Vinod Kumar, Vice-Chancellor, Jaypee University of Information & Technology, Solan (H.P.)    

2. Dr. Sanjaya Mishra, Education Specialist, Commonwealth of Learning, Canada

3. Prof. Jaideep Sharma, IGNOU, New Delhi

4. Prof. Bhaskar Mukherjee, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

5. Dr. R. Sevukan, Pondicherry University, Puducherry

6. Dr. Sandesha Rayapa, JNU, New Delhi

7. Ms. Kemelia Dutta, Online Learner

Event number: 166 283 3809 | Event password: VxhQtQbd964
Attendees may join directly by event address: https://panjabuniversity.webex.com/panjabuniversity/onstage/g.php?MTID=e9097df6768d3d2190d0a0b0d2a10ae1d
1000 users can join on first come first basis

Regards.

Dr. Jivesh Bansal
University Librarian,
A C Joshi Library,
Panjab University, Chandigarh-160014.  India

Email: librarian[@]pu.ac.in,  jiveshbansal[@]gmail.com
Ph: 9815440621

CODATA Connect Webinar on Writing an Article with Excellent Supporting Data | 22 June

CODATA Connect Webinar on writing an article with excellent supporting data
Date: 22nd June  2020
Time: 14:00 UTC | 19:30 IST
Registration: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/490009859085625101

Science requires evidence behind an assertion. As William Deming said, "without data, you're just another person with an opinion." So the argument in a research article must have some sort of evidence, i.e. data, behind it. But does the data support the article or does the article support the data? Both actually. It is the responsibility of the researcher to provide a package of evidence and argument in order to advance our understanding.

This will introduce ways to interconnect your article and data in ways that make them most readily understood and useful by others.  Topics include how to prepare data for presentation, how to ensure the data are well stewarded, and how to provide fair credit and access to data through citation. It will also touch briefly on other research outputs like software and protocols.

Speaker: Mark A. Parsons, Research Scientist and Editor in Chief, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Data Science Journal

Mark Parsons is a Senior Research Scientist at the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He researches mediation and how researchers actually share data and collaborate. Mark was the first Secretary General of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and stepped down in July 2017. He focuses on stewarding research data and making them more accessible and useful across different ways of knowing. He has led major data stewardship efforts for more than 20 years, and received the American Geophysical Union Charles S. Falkenberg Award as an advocate of robust data stewardship as a vital component of Earth system science and as an important profession in its own right. Prior to joining Rensselaer, Mark was a Senior Associate Scientist and the Lead Project Manager at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). While at NSIDC, he defined and implemented their overall data management process and led the data management effort for the ICSU/WMO International Polar Year 2007-2008. Mark is the Editor-in-chief of the CODATA Data Science Journal.

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Science, Technology and Innovation in Latin America in the Journal of Scientometric Research

Special Issue on Science, Technology and Innovation in Latin America in the Journal of Scientometric Research

Guest Editors: Jacqueline Leta & Kizi Araujo

In the last decades, we have witnessed a strong global growth of science, technology and innovation, as a result of the expansion of investment in human resources and infrastructure for the sector. These efforts, however, did not take place in a balanced way and resulted in greater gaps and a more intense division between countries: producers of knowledge and technology on one side and consumers on the other.
This unbalanced picture led to the establishment of a collaborative model, known as North-South, where the South, that embraces consumers or peripheral countries, establishes strong links with the North, or central countries, in order to overcome its internal deficiencies in science, technology and innovation. In this context Latin America presents itself as a region with little tradition in the sector. Some indicators extracted from the report organized by RICYT in 2019, entitled "El estado de la ciencia: main indicators of Ibero-American / Inter-American science and technology 2019", illustrate this scenario for 2017: (a) investments in science, technology in the region represent 3.1% of all global investment (European countries invest around 22%), (b) the region has 3.7% of the world's researchers (Europe has 30%) and (c) similar shares are seen for the number of scientific publications and patents.
Noteworthy highlighting the central role of universities, especially in the public sector, as the main drivers of scientific and technological activities in Latin America: they concentrate almost 60% of researchers in the region and they have strong financial support from the public sector, which corresponds to 58%. It is also worth mentioning the region's internal inequalities in all sectors and also in science, technology and innovation, where Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, assume central roles with investment rates, human resources and have much higher production than the region's average.
Despite recent efforts, Latin America's current picture points to the need to strengthen the collaborative projects already established with central countries as a way to enlarge the training for and visibility of the region's scientific and technology activities within global science. On the other hand, this picture also raises discussions on the need for Latin American governments to seek internal strategies, such as the expansion of South-South relations, that may lead to a greater local and regional development as well as to a reduction of the region's level of scientific and technological dependency and to the establishment of a common agenda focused on the peculiarities and demands of the region, especially in health sciences.
Recently, global public health crises, such as Zika and COVID-19, have reinforced the strategic character of the whole system of science, technology and innovation in the production of quick and joint responses. At times like these, local competencies may become protagonists and so can break barriers, altering significantly the producer-consumer model of new knowledge.
Considering this brief introduction, this special issue of the Journal of Scientometric Research (JSCIRes) will welcome studies in the Latin America context, including comparative or case studies, with the following subjects:

• ST&I indicators, mainly in the field of health sciences or in emerging themes;
• ST&I policies and the impact on reducing local and regional inequalities for the sector;
• Scientific collaboration, with emphasis on local and regional relations;
• Open Access, Open Research Data, Consolidation of local or regional databases, Multilingualism, among other topics to enhance visibility and internationalization;
• Alternative indicators, such as social media metrics, and the impact and influence of the scientific and technological activities in the virtual environment.

Submission Guidelines
To submit the full manuscript, authors should read carefully the journal instructions and requirements in terms of length, reference style. Submissions can be made using the following links: https://www.journalonweb.com/jscires/
Full manuscript to be considered for publication in the Special issue of "Science Technology Innovation and Development in Latin America". Submission of a full manuscript does not indicate automatic acceptance for the present special issue.
All full manuscripts to be considered for the special issue must be submitted through the online submission system and are subjected to double-blind peer review and inclusion in the Special Issue will be determined on a final acceptance decision by the Editor-in-Chief on the basis of peer reviews and recommendations made by the Guest Editors.

Important Dates

• Abstract submission deadline: 15th July 2020 (to be sent to the Guest Editors, guesteditors.latinamerica[@]gmail.com)
• Decision by Guest Editors: 31st July 2020
• Full paper submission deadline: 31st October 2020

(Should be submitted to the online journal submission system. In the Submission under this Special Issue. Paper should have a running title STI-Latin America, in the article file. If in any case Authors are not able to submit under Special Issue Login, then submit through the main submission of the journal.) Please follow the Guideline (a & b) of the Journal in submitting abstract and full paper (paper can be submitted in different categories (Perspective paper, Research note, etc). Abstract should follow the guideline of the research article. While submitting full paper, in the cover letter and in the main manuscript first page above the title indicate the category if it is other than a research article.

• Instructions to authors: http://www.jscires.org/content/instructions-authors
• Guide for authors: http://www.jscires.org/content/guide-authors
• Review Process to be completed: 10th January, 2021
• Publication of the issue: February/March 2021

For any query/correspondence: guesteditors.latinamerica[@]gmail.com

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CfPs: Special Issue on RRI Futures - Learning from a decade of Responsible Research and Innovation, in Journal of Responsible Innovation

Journal of Responsible Innovation

Special Issue: RRI Futures - Learning from a decade of Responsible Research and Innovation

Deadline: 18 September 2020

Special Issue Editor(s): Michiel Van Oudheusden, University of Cambridge, mpv28@cam.ac.uk; Clare Shelley-Egan, Oslo Metropolitan University, secl@oslomet.no

What can be learned from roughly a decade of interest in Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)? How should such learning inform policy, scholarly, and practitioner agendas and imaginations for the next 10 years? These questions come at a critical time: Whereas RRI has come to occupy an increasingly important space in science, technology and innovation policymaking, particularly but not exclusively in Europe, the European Commission's (EC) science policy discourse is shifting towards terms such as 'open innovation'. This move, as some have noted, suggests questions and uncertainties even as it presents opportunities for renewal (Fisher 2020) or at least taking stock of both shortcomings and accomplishments.
We invite contributions of several different kinds for a Special Issue of the Journal of Responsible Innovation devoted to learning from the EC's approach to and investments in RRI in order to shed light on possible, desirable, or alternative futures of RRI. Based upon what can be learned from the recent experience with RRI, what potential futures and agendas can be plausibly anticipated or legitimately recommended?
We invite research articles of 6,000-10,000 words that empirically ground their assessments of RRI futures in analyses of RRI policies, programs, and activities. We are particularly interested in what can be learned more generally and moving forward from their successes, failures, and tensions. By empirical, we are open to qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods, and experimental approaches that may include but are not limited to surveys, interviews, case studies, observations, experiences, document analysis and literature reviews. We also welcome a variety of theoretical, conceptual, and historical treatments of RRI policies, discourses, practices, and assumptions. Finally, we invite short Perspectives (roughly 2000 words) that present well-grounded opinions, commentary, or visions that are based in the scholarly literature or in new research.
In keeping with JRI's broad approach, we encourage potential authors to treat RRI as a unique and historically situated policy experiment in the normative governance of science and innovation that sits alongside numerous other approaches. Questions and topics that potential contributors may wish to consider as they engage more broadly with RRI futures include the following:

• What have we learned from RRI about the politics of responsible innovation? How can RRI experiments and experiences help us understand interactions among publics, experts and other innovation actors in reflexive, anticipatory and tentative forms of governance?
• Can lessons learned from RRI guide us in confronting and negotiating irresponsibilities, inequities and misalignments among research and innovation actors and institutions, whether these are persistent or emerging?
• How does the current experience with RRI compare to prior or contemporary 'policy-for-science' experiences such as Technology Assessment, Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects/Implications (ELSA/ELSI) research, and Broader Impacts?
• In what ways has it experimented with or advanced social scientific concepts and methodologies of foresight and anticipation, public and stakeholder engagement, or socio-technical integration and collaboration?
• How does RRI relate to past and present grassroots experiments in 'social innovation,' 'citizen science,' and related movements that are now gaining traction with policymakers, scientists, and others in Europe and elsewhere?
• How has RRI been viewed and taken up in industrial contexts? How can new constellations of actors and institutions respond to calls for increased alignment of products and processes with societal needs and values?
• How has 'responsibility' been imagined, achieved or apportioned in RRI thinking and practice, particularly in relation to 'innovation'? How has this relationship developed – and what can we learn from this? Can the EC's six keys (ethics, gender equality, public engagement, etc.) be reconciled with other understandings of responsibility and RRI?
• To what extent does the RRI experiment provide an adequate response to the grand societal challenges that face us today, such as: sustainable development, climate change, infectious diseases, social welfare, poverty and inequality, aging, big data? Has RRI helped to place these challenges more firmly on policy and research agendas, particularly in a period of major global disruption and uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic?
• What can be learned from numerous real-world experiments with RRI, including in non-European contexts (e.g., the Global South) and domains that do not usually fall under its remit (e.g., incumbent sciences and technologies)?
• What remains to be learned, retained, reclaimed, forgotten, or reinvented?

With these and related questions, we seek to develop insights and formulate agendas that will inform future iterations and manifestations of responsible innovation, whether or not explicitly associated with the specific notion of RRI. We encourage potential contributors to base any proposed new definitions, frameworks, or visions in empirical analysis or in the larger scholarly literature and in particular policy and historical research, reflexive analyses, and policy experiences and cycles. Authors are further encouraged to take into account Owen and Pansera's (2019) distinction between RRI as a policy approach and Responsible Innovation more broadly as an intellectual and scholarly set of visions and practices. Explorations of potential and alternative RRI futures should thus be based on a solid grounding in empirics or the literature, with a view towards answering difficult but timely questions about the lessons that can be learned from the RRI experiment.

References
Fisher, E. 2020. "Reinventing responsible innovation." Journal of Responsible Innovation 7(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2020.1712537
Owen, R. & Pansera, M. 2019, Responsible Innovation and Responsible Research and Innovation. In D. Simon, S. Kuhlmann, J. Stamm & W. Canzler (eds), Handbook on Science and Public Policy. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 26-48. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784715946

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