The European Space Agency (ESA) is organizing a series of consultations on Earth Observation Open Science to explore the new challenges and opportunities for research created by the rapid advances in Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). This includes open tools and software, dataintensive science, virtual research environment, citizen science and crowd sourcing, advanced visualization, elearning and education of the new generation of Data scientists. This channel presents results and examples collected during the consultations and highlights precursor activities in EO Open Science and Innovation.