Fabio Kon - How Can Funders Contribute to Sustainable Research Software
Channel: Netherlands eScience Center
Date: 16/11/2022

The Research Software Alliance (ReSA) and the Netherlands eScience Center hosted a two-day international workshop to set the future agenda for national and international funders to support sustainable research software. As the importance of software in research has become increasingly apparent, so has the urgent need to sustain it. Funders can play a crucial role in this respect by ensuring structural support. Over the past few years, a variety of methods for sustaining research software have been explored, including improving and extending funding policies and instruments. During the workshop, funding organizations joined forces to explore how they can effectively contribute to making research software sustainable. 

Fabio Kon is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of São Paulo (IME-USP). He carries out research in the fields of Software Engineering, Smart Cities, Free and Open Source Software, and Innovation and Technological Entrepreneurship. In 2013, he was Visiting Professor at the Technion, Israel, where he conducted research on Software Startup Ecosystems and Digital Entrepreneurship. In 2018-19, he was a Visiting Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, where he researched data science applied to Smart Cities.
Prof. Kon is highly involved in education and in promoting the best practices of software engineering, open-source software, and open science. He is a member of the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) Adjunct Panel for Exact Sciences and Engineering.

The presentation slides are found here:
https://future-of-research-software.org/wp-content/uploads/FabioKon_International_Funders_Workshop_Presentation.pdf

More information about this event:
https://future-of-research-software.org/

Research Software Alliance:
https://www.researchsoft.org/

Netherlands eScience Center:
https://www.esciencecenter.nl/

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