2021 is likely to be a very significant year for the transformation of UNESCO has conducted a global consultation and drafting process for the Recommendation on Open Science.
In June 2020, CODATA coordinated and published ‘Open Science for a Global Transformation’, a response to the UNESCO consultation from a number of partner international first draft of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science was released for feedback from member states and the scientific community in early October 2020.
To encourage further discussion around the issues addressed in ‘Open ‘Open Science for a Global Transformation’ and in the draft UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. Please consult the scope of the Data Science Journal and the descriptions of the categories of article. All submissions should be scholarly and will be peer reviewed. While ensuring quality and rigour, the editorial team will do its best to expedite publication. The collection will serve as a scholarly contribution to the global debate on the content of the UNESCO Recommendation and on the contours and characteristics of Open https://datascience.codata.org/about/submissions/
If you would like to contribute to this discussion through something more like a blog post, and opinion piece, or if you would like to test your ideas before submitting an more scholarly contribution to the asha@codata.org. The proposed blog posted will be checked by the CODATA secretariat and a member of the author group and then published.
- Threads on the CODATA International List
Finally, we also encourage the community to share ideas and discussion of the draft Recommendation through the CODATA International news and discussion list. Simply subscribe to the list and send your ideas and views to codata-international@lists.codata.org. Be sure to start the title of your message with ‘UNESCO Open International Council for Science, OECD and European Commission, have recognised Open UNESCO launched a global consultation in March 2020. This has as its objective ‘to build a coherent vision of Open 
The first draft of the UNESCO Recommendation was produced, on the basis of the consultation and supported by the UNESCO Open international Open Science Advisory Committee, and was published for consultation in early October 2020. Feedback on the draft Recommendation is invited from UNESCO Member States and from the global Data Science Journal and those engaged with the Data Together organisations and other International (Virtual) FAIR Convergence Symposium in December 2020 and other events such as the Virtual RDA Plenary meeting in November 2020.
