Resources and challenges for building global equitable open science communities
Channel: csvconf
Date: 2023-05-31

Presented by: Paz Bernaldo and Emmy Tsang

Data ethics, data sharing and analysis are key for any deep dive into open science. Open Life Science (OLS) is a community-oriented non-profit organization attempting such a dive: designed to provide structured training and mentoring to curious academics, researchers, undergraduates and people working on participatory projects. OLS provides expert consulting, resources and peer-based networks to build projects and become open science ambassadors. In this talk we present our fully online 16 weeks program, and reflect on the resources needed to train international members across time zones, working on diverse problems, with different levels of infrastructure and support. We then explore the challenges in forming equitable global communities, such as collaboration between high and low-resource settings, language and accessibility barriers, and our experience about where allocating funding and resources can make a difference.