In the COVID19 era, data scientists have the expertise and a professional obligation to play vital roles, says Harvard statistics Professor Xiao-Li Meng. The coronavirus pandemic, he says, presents them with opportunities to explore important social and scientific questions.

In this white paper, Mary Ellen Bates discusses the importance of making information FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) using semantic enrichment, and how information managers can find strategic roles to play in their organization’s AI and data analysis projects.

Michael Healy, CCC’s Executive Director of International Relations takes a look at copyright developments in South Africa, Australia and Japan, along with a short update on the European Union as it relates to the Digital Single Market (DSM) copyright directive.

This white paper by Phill Jones is a series of interviews with nine individuals, all key stakeholders in 4IR, most of whom work in the pharmaceutical industry. From knowledge managers to information scientists, each of them provides a unique perspective on the future of data, knowledge and information management.