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May Thet

Tekkatho Foundation
Head of IT
Myanmar

tekkatho.foundation

May Thet joined the eTekkatho team determined to improve access to education in Myanmar. She was previously a team leader at Yatanaron Teleport, a telecom service provider in Myanmar, and has a B.C.Sc (Hons) and Master of Computer Science from the University of Computer Studies, Yangon. May Thet manages the eTekkatho project, liasing with partners, running the training programme and setting up the local installations at universities and community libraries. She also leads the eTekkatho MyLibrary project, working to scale up delivery of the eTekkatho digital library.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/maythetkhinenyein/

9:30am EST

OpenCon Opening Grossman Hall

10:15am EST

Brewster Kahle, Founder & Digital Librarian, Internet Archive Grossman Hall

11:20am EST

Remote only: Speaker Q&A Facebook Live

11:50am EST

Story Circle 26FILLING Room: The Commons (Outside Grossman Hall) | Table: Patterson Story Circle 6FULL Room: NT01 | Table: Browne

1:00pm EST

Lunch American University Cafeteria Remote only: Lunchtime Networking Call (Disciplinary Groups) Google Hangouts

1:45pm EST

Break Outside Grossman Hall

3:30pm EST

Project Presentations Session 2 Grossman Hall

3:45pm EST

Remote only: Speaker Q&A Facebook Live

4:15pm EST

Right to Research Coalition Next Generation Leadership Award Grossman Hall

4:30pm EST

Successful participant projects Grossman Hall

6:00pm EST

Group Photo NT01

9:30am EST

Introduction to Day 2 Grossman Hall

9:45am EST

Research Evaluation Grossman Hall

11:15am EST

Remote only: Speaker Q&A Facebook Live

11:45am EST

Equity & Open Grossman Hall

12:15pm EST

Remote only: OpenCon Community Call Google Hangouts

1:15pm EST

Break Outside Grossman Hall

1:30pm EST

How to do an Open Research Training Grossman Hall How to communicate openness effectively for Campaigns and Policy Makers NT08 How to communicate openness effectively to Academics NT01 How to do grassroot organising and campaigning NT03 How to effectively communicate in an international network of free knowledge stakeholders YT17 How to ensure your projects & organizations are diverse & inclusive YT16 How to fundraise for projects NT02 How to harness Open to advance your career N102 How to start projects from scratch N101

2:30pm EST

Remote only: Speaker Q&A Facebook Live

3:00pm EST

Project Presentations Session 3 Grossman Hall

3:15pm EST

** Unconference ** TBA

3:25pm EST

Data Literacy N102 How can we encourage researchers to release their software? How can we improve software citation? NT01 I didn't know I could know so much YT16 Min(e)d your Data ! NT02 Open Advice NT08 Open Global Health N105 Open in Canada N103 The Impact of OA beyond Academia Grossman Hall

4:15pm EST

The Pan-African Institutional Repository NT08 Toward Open Science: Crowdsourcing a Revision of Study Materials on Open Access and Undergraduates NT02 Wikipedia+Open Education at your university Grossman Hall

5:05pm EST

Can we measure open science? Should we? Grossman Hall Hacking school textbooks in Cameroon N102

6:00pm EST

Project Presentations Session 4 Grossman Hall

9:30am EST

Introduction to the Advocacy Day George Washington University

11:00am EST

Group 1 Advocacy Training & Meeting Planning George Washington University

11:30am EST

Group 2 Advocacy Training & Meeting Planning George Washington University

12:30pm EST

Optional: Advanced Skills Training -- 'State of Open Data' George Washington University

3:00pm EST

Optional: Advanced Skills Training -- Advocacy & Effective Communications George Washington University

1:00pm EST

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