This post was originally published on the Natural Justice site.  By Cath Traynor 26 June 2018 Research involving communities and their knowledge can result in unintended negative impacts: A new guide supports communities to understand the law, harness their rights and negotiate more socially just research processes Background During a collaborative research project * that investigated climate change and […]

The OCSDNet 2017 Workshop will convene our 12 sub-projects for a final workshop at the close of the two-year projects. We will be sharing lessons learned; challenges and findings from the project as well as discussing the way forward for the network. We plan to have an electronic participation channel available and will share more information via […]

By Cath Traynor of the Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change Adaptation project Summary: Dr. Cath Traynor (Natural Justice), and Community Researcher, Mr Gerren De Wet (Indigenous Nama youth) presented on the OCSDNet ‘Indigenous knowledge and climate change adaptation project’ at the recent 2nd Southern African Adaptation Colloquium 7-8 July, 2016 in Johannesburg, South Africa (hosted by GSRI, Wits […]

The “Open Science and Inclusive Innovation” Symposium, co-hosted by NIA and OCSDNet, will discuss the role of openness and collaboration in science and innovation as a framework for development thinking and practice. Approximately 100 stakeholders related to Science, Technology, and Innovation in Thailand and ASEAN, as well as visiting members of 12 OCSDNet research project teams […]

Coordination Team member, Becky Hillyer, interviews Leslie Chan, Principal Investigator of OCSDNet, about the current state of the network and his experience working in the field of Open Science and Open Access over the past twenty years. – – – Interview Questions:  What is OCSDNet, in a nutshell? Why did you seek to initiate a network […]

This blog post is a summary of a progress report covering the period from November 2014 to May 2015 and submitted to the funder in June 2015. The full funder progress report can be found here. The next progress report will be made publically available in early 2016. — The Open and Collaborative Science in […]