What we are working on: 2023-02-03 | Invest in Open Infrastructure

"...Who we are talking to: Hannah Wang, Educopia, to find out more about their work on the Digital Preservation Services Collaborative Planning project that aims at advocating for community-supported distributed digital preservation service options and designing a service model for collaboration that ensures the authority, sustainability, and viability of these options. Jochai Ben-Avie, Connect Humanity, on their work to connect the unconnected and provide financing for communities in need. John Inglis and Richard Sever, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, to follow up on conversations about supporting governance and diversification of funding strategies for biorXiv and medrXiv. Christopher Wood, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, to explain the work of IOI and reflect on the open infrastructure needs (digital and non-digital) in Latin America as well as the elements that limit the flourishing of projects such as limited financial resources, formation of human resources, and barriers around cross-institutional collaborations...."