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Thursday 10 December 2015
Title
Open population data for human and animal health
by Marius Gilbert and Catherine Linard (Lubies - Université libre de Bruxelles)
Short abstract
High spatial resolution data on the geographical distribution of populations have countless uses ranging from epidemics modelling to disaster management and environmental impact assessment. People and livestock also have a profound impact on the environment, which can be spatially informed thanks to high quality data on their number and distribution. Since several years, two different projects have aimed to collect, integrate and redistribute spatial data on people and livestock at continental and global scale. The Worldpop project initially aimed to process and disseminate human population spatial data in developing countries at a 100m spatial resolution, and has now expanded to distribute data on human movement patterns. The gridded livestock of the world (GLW) project was initiated by FAO and now covers six livestock species, at a global extent, and a spatial resolution of 1 km per pixel. Since their origin, both projects have adopted an Open data approach, and have been extensively used in epidemiological, environmental and socio-economic applications.
Thursday 14 January 2016
Open Innovation, also in the banks par David Dab,
PhD in Sciences (ULB), Innovation manager (ING), MIT fellow, former McKinsey Finance director.
Thursday 10 March 2015
Open Access : why so important for Society ? par Bernard Rentier docteur en sciences (
Honorary Rector (ULG), President of OpenScholarship, Honorary President of the FNRS
Thursday 14 April 2015
Open Data & copyright reform par Pieter Murray-Rust Reader Emeritus , University of Cambridge, Shuttleworth Fellow.
Reader Emeritus, University of Cambridge Fellow & Shuttleworth, running ContentMine
Thursday 12 May 2015
Open publications & evaluation of researchers and research par Pierre-Louis Lions (*) Professeur au Collège de France, académicien, président du conseil d'administration de l'École normale supérieure (Paris)
Professor at the Collège de France, academician, Président of the École Normale Superieure
Thursday 9 June 2015
Open Culture par Jean-Claude Guédon (*) Professeur à l'Université de Montréal, member de l'Internet Society, auteur du rapport Open Access pour Unesco, conseiller à la Commission européenne.
Professor at the University of Montreal, Contributor to the Unesco report on Open Access, advisor to the European Commission, Member of the Nexa group
In the past days
Thursday 8 October 2015
Open Source in healthcare by Sébastien Jodogne PhD in Computer Science (ULG) and hospital IT developper from CHU de Liège, developer of the free software Orthanc, winner of the FSF 2014 Award for Advancement of Free Software, initiator of the Osimis start-up.
Le logiciel libre dans la santé par Sébastien Jodogne , docteur en informatique (ULG) et informaticien hospitalier au CHU de Liège, développeur du logiciel libre Orthanc, lauréat du prix pour l'avancement du logiciel libre 2014 de la Fondation pour le logiciel libre, initiateur de la start-up Osimis.
Thursday 12 November 2015
Title
Open Education: towards open digital learning resources Yves Deville and Olivier Bonaventure, Université catholique Louvain
Short abstract
Open Education introduces, in the field of learning, an open approach with collaboration and knowledge sharing. In terms of content, Open education proposes to promote the development and use of open educational resources, that is learning materials in a digital format freely distributed to educators, students or any individual around the world. Digital opens the door to new types of educational materials and facilitates dissemination. MOOCs are a possible implementation of the Open Education, but other digital technologies can also be offered.
In the first part of the talk, Yves Deville will present and discuss Open Education as considered at Université catholique Louvain
In the second part, Olivier Bonaventure will present his experience with three open ebooks.