A very sensible article on why "Open Science Isn't Always Open to All Scientists"- "Open science is built on the same foundation as science itself, and inherits many systematic barriers that already exist in mainstream science." #openscience americanscientist.org/article/open-s…

"To diversify our curriculum is to challenge power relations and call for deeper thinking about the content of our courses and how we teach them" The decolonising agenda in HE is much more complex than we think. theguardian.com/education/2019…

We agree with China recommendation to #Plan_S about the need to provide and encourage financial support for no-fee OA journals...to avoid the perverse effect of giving no-fee journals an incentive to start charging fees mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal…

"Contextualizing openness : situating #openscience" viewed through the lens of diverse cultures, epistemologies, research traditions, disciplinary background, and through critical decolonizing lenses. Book edited by Leslie Chan and OCSD Network IDRC | CRDI idrc.ca/en/book/contex…

Thanks for flagging this. The volume is intended to stimulate debates on the growing open science universalism & top down policy mandates. Diverse, local perspectives & infrastructures are crucial or else we risk furthering the inequities of the current global knowledge systems.

#Live: Leslie Chan speaks on bias in knowledge production dissemination in international databases #4IR #InclusiveDevelopment #A2K4D10

A Call for Action! 📣 "Fostering Bibliodiversity in Scholarly Communications" We are calling on researchers, policy makers, funders, universities and libraries to work together to address the issue of #bibliodiversity in #schollcom Read more here 👉 coar-repositories.org/news-updates/f…

Open Science Beyond Open Access: For and with communities - A step towards the decolonization of knowledge zenodo.org/record/3946773… Contribution to UNESCO's forthcoming Recommendation on Open Science, coordinated by UNESCO Chair in CBR & Social Responsibility of HE CCUNESCO

The Annual CCDS Al Berry Lecture University of Toronto Scarborough by Prof. Ruth Oniang'o. Ruth has been working on food insecurity issues in her country Kenya & in Africa at large, yet she feels not much has changed over the decades. Why? Join us & find out. Registration required tinyurl.com/alberrylecture #idsa01

Scientific racism distorts what is supposed to be a pure and unbiased enterprise. Leslie Chan led by the Knowledge Equity Lab at #UTSC will be home to dozens of collaborations that will address this growing problem. #UofT bit.ly/3mRoNpF

Sharing our chapter "Toward an Inclusive, Open, and Collaborative Science: Lessons from OCSDNet" in the #OA book Making Open Development Inclusive: Lessons from IDRC Research, edited by Matthew Smith and Ruhiya Seward direct.mit.edu/books/book/487…

Really looking forward to our dialogue next week. Thank you Azra Vi for the invitation!

Join us on Nov. 20 at the final session of the International Webinar Series on #OpenScience & #Decolonization of Knowledge, with Ellie Haine-Bennett @ccunesco, Romina Istratii Decolonial Subversions Jude Fransman Angela Okune OCSD Network tinyurl.com/y5b99hlg Knowledge Equity Lab UNESCO Chair in CBR & Social Responsibility of HE

Finally, Leslie Chan invited us to reconsider the uncritical acceptance of openness, proposing there is no universal concept of ‘open’-the term doesn't address how knowledge is created and circulated in different communities doi.org/10.23636/1233 #OpenEngaged2020 #OpenAccess

CFP:What Would Ursula Franklin Say? Framing technology as social practice & as a system, Franklin encouraged us to see how prescriptive technology affect relations of time and space & individual and collective responsibility. Read more: mcluhancentre.ca/cfp-what-would…

.Code for Science & Society has an open call out to support events related to broadening participation around #openscience. The unique community-run fund takes a broad notion of data science that is aligned with notions of Open and Collaborative Science in/for Dev’t. Deadline: Jan 18!

It was sure a pleasure attending the post-defence presentation & celebration of Dr. Angela Okune Angela Okune! Can't wait to read the entire thesis! Kudos to Drs. Kim Fortune and Mike Fortune, Angela's thesis supervisors for creating such an open & inclusive intellectual space.

Relevant funding for those working on Open and Collaborative Science in Dev’t! Ten days left to apply!