Abstract
This article seeks to address issues of power and inequality in Open Science discourses, based on the research findings of the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network (OCSDNet), an international research network that between 2014 and 2017 studied whether, and under what conditions, open science contributed to the effective application of research towards sustainable development. The network approached Open Science from a Global South perspective and collectively produced a set of values that ought to be at the foundation of a more inclusive and equitable practice of Open Science. However it also found that these values are currently missing in the most prominent Open Science policies. This article prompts the question: what assumptions are embedded in Open Science policies - whose interests are they serving and in turn whose interests are they neglecting? With this provocation it seeks to critically question Open Science policies by offering three alternative ways to think about Open Science from the perspective of Global South grassroots communities.
Highlights
This article seeks to address issues of power and inequality in Open Science discourses, based on the research findings of the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network (OCSDNet)
Funded by IDRC of Canada and DFID in the UK, OCSDNet was an international research network that between 2014 and 2017 studied whether, and under what conditions, open science and open approaches to knowledge production contributed to the effective application of research towards sustainable development and the wellbeing of diverse local, regional and global communities
We recognized that one of the main reasons for their popularity was rooted in the systemic biases in academic knowledge production, which afforded much more visibility to research practices and knowledge produced in the Global North, compared to how much we know about knowledge produced in the rest of the world (CZERNIEWICZ, 2013)
Summary
1 Introduction This article seeks to address issues of power and inequality in Open Science discourses, based on the research findings of the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network (OCSDNet). Funded by IDRC of Canada and DFID in the UK, OCSDNet was an international research network that between 2014 and 2017 studied whether, and under what conditions, open science and open approaches to knowledge production contributed to the effective application of research towards sustainable development and the wellbeing of diverse local, regional and global communities.
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