GOSH Roadmap: launching a revolution in access to scientific tools | Gathering for Open Science Hardware

"Over 100 researchers, engineers, educators, entrepreneurs and community organizers from 30 countries have published a report describing the steps for providing global access to scientific hardware by 2025 through open source designs, collaborative research and new manufacturing techniques, including 3D-printing. The group, who convened at CERN in Geneva and at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago in 2017 during meetings supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, argue that too few people have access to the tools needed to perform science, particularly researchers in developing countries and communities wanting to gather and analyze data about their own environment. ...The authors of the ‘Global Open Science Hardware Roadmap’ lay out the steps they think are needed to help their community move forward, including greater institutional support from universities, funders and governments who often prefer inventors to patent their hardware...."