International Workshop on Open Science and Open Data (OSOD-2013) 7th October, 2013 Bangalore, India Hosted by: Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC) Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) & Creative Commons, USA Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute along with Creative Commons USA announces an international workshop on Open Science and Open Data. The main objective of this workshop is to bring together International experts, practitioners and advocates of Open Access to Information to discuss and contemplate on key issues contributing to Open Science. The workshop also aims to serve as a platform for institutions, academicians, scientists and researchers interested in Open Science to exchange thoughts and processes 'How To' create Open content within legal framework. OSOD 2013 is open for all the library and information science professionals, academicians, researchers, scientists and students who are interested to know how to make content open. On behalf of the OSOD 2013 Committee, we invite you to participate in the International Workshop on Open Science and Open Data, which will take place at Indian Statistical Institute on 7th October 2013, in Bangalore, India. Speakers: • Puneet Kishor Policy Coordinator for Science and Data Creative Commons USA • Dr. ARD Prasad DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore • Dr. Devika Madalli DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore • Dr. Usha Munshi Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi • Dr. Subbiah Arunachalam Information Scientist, Chennai • Ms. Neha Choudhary(TBC) Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore • Dr. Sridhar Parishetty(TBC) Open Governance India, IIM Bangalore • Zainab Bawa(TBC) Co-founder HasGeek • Nisha Thompson(TBC) Aghyar • Sajjad Anwar and Shashank Srinivasan(TBC) GeoHackers • Prof. Ravikumar(TBC) • Dr. Prabhakar(TBC) • Narendra Prasad(TBC)  TBC –To be confirmed Registration Fee: Rs 500 for all the participants. Mode of payment: Demand Draft; The Demand Draft (DD) should be made in favor of Indian Statistical Institute, payable at Bangalore on or before 27th September, 2013 More information will be available soon at http://drtc.isibang.ac.in We are looking forward to your participation and contribution at OSOD 2013. OSOD 2013 Organizing Committee Devika P.Madalli(Convener), Indian Statistical Institute, India Biswanath Dutta, Indian Statistical Institute, India ARD Prasad, DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, India -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.