Keep an eye on this page for updates around the launch of OCSDNet’s upcoming, collaborative publication: ‘Contextualizing & Situating Openness: Understanding the Diversity and Contexts of Open Science in Development.’
This collective volume will provide empirical case studies from two years of research taking place around the world, around the topic of whether and how open science can facilitate development opportunities. In particular, the volume will interrogate the unique social, cultural and political factors that influence the way that “openness” is situated, practiced and understood in different global contexts.
A complete list of chapter titles, keywords and abstracts can be found here.
A list of the intended chapter titles is outlined below:
Theme 1: Defining Open Science in Development
- On Openness and Motivation: Insights from a pilot project in Latin America
- Open Science Hardware (OSH) for Development: Transnational Networks and Local Tinkering in Southeast Asia
- Contextualizing Openness: A Case Study In Water Quality Testing In Lebanon
Theme 2: Governing Open Science
- Brazil’s Virtual Herbarium, an infrastructure for e-Science
- Harmonization Of Open Science And Commercialization In Research Partnerships In Kenya
- Collaborative Development of an Open Knowledge Broker for Disaster Recovery Planning
Theme 3: Negotiating Open Science
- Negotiating Openness in Science Projects: Case studies from Argentina
- Fieldnotes on Tensions Related to Openness in Researching Indigenous Peoples Knowledge Systems and Intellectual Property Rights
- Co-production of knowledge, degrees of openness and utility of science in non-hegemonic countries
Theme 4: Expanding Open Science for Social Transformation
- Experimenting with Openness as a seed for social transformation: Linking environmental education and citizen science in remote mountain villages of Kyrgyzstan
- Open Science and social change: a case study in Brazil