Collaboration and Open Data: How NGOs are making an impact on a global scale

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How can data and collaboration methods be used to solve the biggest challenges humanity is facing? With the Covid-19 pandemic still challenging the human race since its beginning 2 years ago, the humanitarian crisis ever growing, and climate change impacting every lifeform around our planet, it is becoming more and more apparent that collaboration plays a crucial role in overcoming our biggest challenges today.

We talk about this with CrowdFight (https://crowdfight.org/): A non-profit organization dedicated to facilitating scientific collaborations—especially those that don’t emerge naturally—by finding the experts needed to complement research projects and documenting the credit due to every participant. Its mission is to promote the advancement of science, its contribution to society, and the well-being of scientists.

As an NGO that started at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, and grew to over 45000 volunteers in just 2 years, they know how impactful the power of collaboration is, and what is needed in order to make it work on a global scale.

We talk with CrowdFight about how data is benefiting their work, what unique challenges they face to facilitate collaboration among scientists, and how they work with so many involved stakeholders around the globe.

The talks will last for about 30 minutes, after which there will be ample time for questions and discussion. Join us to learn more about the defining issues of our time. We are looking forward to seeing you there!

The event is in English.

SPEAKERS and Contributors

Alfonso Pérez-Escudero
Co-founder at CrowdFight

Alfonso is a CNRS researcher at the Center for Integrative Biology in Toulouse (France), and co-founder of Crowdfight. He studied Physics at the University of Valladolid (Spain), did a PhD in Biophysics at the Cajal Institute and the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain), and did a postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). Currently, his lab studies how animals make decisions and move to execute them.

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Ana Morán
Core team at CrowdFight

Ana completed her MSc in Ecology and Evolution at the Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse. She is currently a PhD student in the Research Center on Animal Cognition and studies insect navigation. She is a member of the core team of Crowdfight and responsible for the reception of requests.

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Alberto Pascual-García
Board Member at CrowdFight

Alberto Pascual-García completed his BSC in Physics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He then undertook a MSc in Biophysics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, followed by a PhD in Complex Biological Systems at the Spanish Research Council, awarded with the Outstanding Thesis University Award. Alberto then joined the laboratory of Microbial Ecology at Imperial College London, and he is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Theoretical Biology at ETH-Zürich. He actively participates in different initiatives aimed at providing benefit to the scientific community. In particular, he is a Board Member of Crowdfight (www.crowdfight.org) and Open Scholar (www.openscholar.org.uk).

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PROGRAMME

19:30 - 19:35 Welcome
19:35 - 20:15 Keynotes
20:15 - 20:45 Discussion / Q&A
20:45 - 20:50 Closing remarks

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