Chair: Ameneiha Itani (UAE University)

Speakers:

• Dr. Batool Almarzouq, The Alan Turing Institute – “Driving Economic Knowledge through Open Science in Saudi Arabia”
• Nikesh Narayanan & Yrjo Lappalainan, Zayed University – “Citation Impact of Open Access Publications by Scholars in the Middle East”
• Haleema Alsabah, Abu Dhabi University – “Building and Sustaining Communities of Practice (CoP) in Arabic-Speaking Countries”