Network targets open research’s development impact - SciDev.Net

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-02-19

Summary:

"A fledgling network has announced it will fund 13 projects to catalogue the impacts of what it calls ‘open and collaborative’ research across the developing world. Openness, be it free access to research papers, open source design or open data, is a hot topic among scientists in developed nations. The idea is that everyone should have a say in what questions research tackles as well as have access to the results. Although this approach could boost development, the precise way it could achieve this remains poorly understood. But this may change over the next two years. OCSDNet (Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network), which was launched in October 2014, announced last month (19 January) 13 projects it will fund to investigate this question. Each project, which will get up to CAN$80,000 (US$65,000), will assess the benefits and dangers of involving stakeholders in the development research process. One project will hunt for ways that small island states can share information after natural disasters. Another will use citizen science to help communities adapt to climate change. A third plans to identify the barriers to graduate students adopting collaborative research methods in Haiti and Francophone Africa ..."

Link:

http://m.scidev.net/index.cfm?originalUrl=global/networks/news/network-open-access-research-development-impact.html

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.awards oa.funders oa.open_science oa.data oa.floss

Date tagged:

02/19/2015, 07:55

Date published:

02/19/2015, 02:55