It's now time for a facilitated open space, with delegates looking at a number of domains of interest in collaborations. Topics for these discussions are around research opportunities, informatics/data gaps, infrastructure, cultivating networks, AI & Tech and capacity building

Discussions around infrastructure and advancing NHCs.

We've just had an informative presentation on 'Integrating Infrastructure and E-Infrastructure: Advancing Natural History Collections into the Digital Age' by UK Natural History Museum's, Vince Smith. #G20SANBIGBIF

For Sessions 3 and 4, we had presentations from Roger Bills (SAIAB), Hugo de Boer (University of Oslo), Wendy Black (Iziko Museums) and Joe Miller (GBIF). These presentations looked at issues around 'Building Capacity in the Natural History Collections Community to Support

Our third presenter in this session is Adriana Jacobs-Venter, from the Agricultural Research Council. Her presentation is on the South African National Collection of Fungi and Microbial Collections across Africa-working towards the "African Microbial Culture Collections

@museumnaturalis @sanbigbif Our next presenter is Pia Steiger, from the Swiss Collection Network. Her presentation is on mobilising knowledge from natural history collections in Switzerland #G20SANBIGBIF

We're now in our second session, titled 'Developing Initiatives and Building Collaborations at National, Regional and Global Levels with a focus on data mobilisation'. We have a 3 presentations for this session, followed by TRIAD conversations. First up is Dimtris Koureas, from

For our first session, entitled 'New Roles for Old Institutions: Transforming the Museums and Natural History Collections Landscape' we have the President of the European Taxonomic Facilities, Edwin Van Huis (🇳🇱), to give us a keynote #G20SANBIGBIF

It is the last day of the Research and Innovation Working Group. Today's workshop aims to identify global collaborative opportunities that will inform the development of a Roadmap to enhance efforts in Museums and Natural History Collections. These opportunities - spanning short,

We now have our panel discussion, looking at 21st century challenges; how collaboration can rebalance asymmetries, and how collections could advance innovative technological infrastructure development while growing the human capacity. #G20SANBIGBIF

Our last keynote for Session 2 is from our very own Fatima Parker-Allie. Her presentation is titled 'From Innovation to Impact: Advancing Biodiversity Informatics for a Sustainable Earth' #G20SANBIGBIF

We've just had a panel discussion on The Imperative for Action from the perspective of science policy & funders. The discussion was around global collaborative advancement through key research infrastructures, socio-economic value of Natural History Collections, and potential

We are now in Session 2, looking at Global Collections: Securing Our Future, Starting Today. Our first keynote speaker this session is Christoph Hauser, with a presentation on 'Natural History Collections for the 21st Century: Scalable, Open, and AI-Ready Workflows for

Our third keynote address is on 'Perspectives from Africa' by Prof. Álex Asase, from the University of Ghana.

Our first keynote speaker is Tim Littlewood from the Natural History Museum (UK). His address is titled 'The Global Imperative - the role of NHCs in providing solutions to global challenges' #G20SANBIGBIF

Our second keynote address is from the Natural Science Collections Facility's Anthony Magee, titled 'The current state of collections in South Africa' #G20SANBIGBIF

Our CEO, Shonisani Munzhedzi, welcomes delegates from all over the world to this seminar. He says South Africa understands the critical role that natural history collections play as they enable collaboration and innovation. #G20SANBIGBIF

A very good morning to everyone. The G20 Research and Innovation Working Group Workshop continues this week. @sanbigbif hosts today's seminar titled 'Developing Global Collaborations to Support Museums and Natural History Collections' #G20SANBIGBIF

Day 3 of the #BioDATAAdvanced training with @SANBIgBIF & @GBIF! 🐾✨. Today we explored the wild during a safari bioblitz, an incredible way to learn and connect with biodiversity! 🌿 #Sanbigbif #Gbif #BioDATAAdvanced

And that's a wrap😀 We ended a fantastic week with a group activity around storytelling. Students discussed and presented their key results including tools and techniques they learnt in the week! Part 2 @SANBI_ZA @MySPU @GBIF @Fatimakirs