India gives highest attention to sharing of scientific data: DST Secy

Department of Science and Techlogy secretary Ashutosh Sharma has underlined increasing attention given by India on sharing scientific data with its global partners, DST said on Sunday. dressing Science & Techlogy Ministerial Roundtable on Saturday, organised in 17th annual Science Techlogy and Society (STS) Forum, Sharma also highlighted that vaccines for coronavirus are in vanced phases of trial, and India has capacity to supply vaccine to a major part of humanity.

Sharma said increasing attention given by India to sharing of scientific data is evident from India's National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (INDSAP) and an open government data portal.

“Scientific data sharing is being considered for inclusion in New S T I P 2020 being framed. Data is new water, and we do want to share it as global partners,” Sharma emphasised.

online Science & Techlogy Ministerial Roundtable, organised on Saturday and hosted by Japan, deliberated on role of international R&D collaboration, social sciences & humanities, and open science. It saw participation of S&T hes from about 50 countries around world and explored opportunities arising from international collaborations in science and techlogy to dress challenges posed by COVID 19.

Sharma said India gives extraordinary importance to international cooperation in S&T for development and for dressing challenges of health, water, energy, environment, climate change, communication, and natural disasters. He spoke about India's active S&T collaboration with over 40 countries in world.

“We are also part of all major multilateral and regional S&T platforms and groupings such as EU, BRICS, ASEAN, G20, Africa Initiatives, UN and OECD S&T platform as well as international mega-science projects such as ITER, TMT, LIGO and so on.

"Coalitions for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, International Solar Alliance and Mission Invation are India's global initiatives in manment of disasters and clean energy,” he ded. 

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