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Accelerating Open Science in Latin America

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“Open science breaks down barriers in science and provides opportunities for a more diverse and inclusive research community.

However, researchers in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and other regions of the Global South looking to engage with open science often can’t access — or be trained in — the tools and software they need to drive their research forward.

To address these challenges, CZI partners with and supports research groups in Latin America with the long-term goal of supporting a more diverse, inclusive biomedical open science community.

In April 2023, we hosted a workshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on accelerating open science in Latin America. This workshop aimed to enhance Latin American participation and collaboration in computational biomedicine and open science.

Explore the slideshow above to discover more about the event….”

DataCite launches Global Access Program with support from CZI – DataCite Blog

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“DataCite is proud to announce the launch of our Global Access Program (GAP), which is designed to increase access to and adoption of PID services and infrastructure for communities beyond the Global North. The program is made possible by Grant 2022-316573 from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative….

The Global Access Program is based on three pillars: increasing community awareness, supporting and developing infrastructure, and lowering financial barriers to access. These pillars were defined and prioritized by a working group of DataCite members, including current DataCite members from Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. As a first step, through the Global Access Program, we are pleased to be hiring three new team members based in Africa, Latin America and Middle East or Asia. We believe that staff based in these regions will be best placed to understand the regional needs and opportunities, as well as delivering and refining the program….

DataCite is committed to taking a proactive role in supporting communities beyond the Global North to develop and adopt open infrastructure through a comprehensive and collaborative approach. As part of this commitment, our goal is to actively address the different challenges that currently prevent organizations from fully participating in and benefiting from our infrastructure services. …”

 

 

Join the conversation: Building the Open Global Data Citation Corpus – YouTube

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“Wellcome Trust and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Partners with DataCite to Build the Open Global Data Citation Corpus

Aggregated references to data across outputs will help the community monitor impact, inform future funding, and improve the dissemination of research DataCite is pleased to announce that The Wellcome Trust has awarded funds to build the Open Global Data Citation Corpus to dramatically transform the data citation landscape. The corpus will store asserted data citations from a diverse set of sources and can be used by any community stakeholder. This webinar is the virtual kick-off and shows a conversation between DataCite, Wellcome Trust, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, EMBL-EBI, COKI, OpenAIRE, and OpenCitations. For more information, please read this DataCite blog post: https://doi.org/10.5438/vjz9-kx84…”

Wellcome Trust and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Partner with DataCite to Build the Open Global Data Citation Corpus – DataCite Blog

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“DataCite is pleased to announce that The Wellcome Trust has awarded funds to build the Open Global Data Citation Corpus to dramatically transform the data citation landscape. The corpus will store asserted data citations from a diverse set of sources and can be used by any community stakeholder.

The Make Data Count (MDC) initiative was established in 2014 to develop an infrastructure for open data metrics. A key learning from the initiative is that the community needs a clear understanding of data reuse to monitor impact, inform future funding, and improve the dissemination of research. The development of a trusted central aggregate of all references to research data across articles, preprints, government documents, and other outputs will help achieve this goal….”

New project: Open science cloud infrastructure and training for communities in Latin America and Africa

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“We are excited to share that the grant proposal that the IOI team contributed to, titled “A Collaborative Interactive Computing Service Model for Global Communities”, has been awarded funding by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative….

The goal of this proposal is to create a collaborative cloud infrastructure service that enables community-based cloud-native workflows in the biosciences. Together with our collaborators, we will promote values of open and inclusive community practices, infrastructure that enables these practices, and a “train-the-trainers” approach that empowers community leaders to share expertise in cloud infrastructure with others in their communities. Our focus will be on communities in Latin America and Africa, and we hope to learn how this model could be extended to other global communities that are historically marginalized from large-scale scientific infrastructure projects….”

PREreview and eLife welcome Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s support to boost community engagement in public preprint review | For the press | eLife

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“PREreview and eLife are pleased to announce today that the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has awarded a grant to the non-profit organisations. The investment will boost their efforts to enable more diverse communities of researchers to participate in the open peer review of preprints.

PREreview and eLife have been partners for more than a year. Their collaboration involves improving technology and research culture to support a more open and participatory ecosystem for the public review of preprints. They are currently working to enhance PREreview’s integration into Sciety – a website developed by a team within eLife for users to explore and curate evaluated preprints – and opening up new opportunities for more researchers to participate in public preprint review.

With backing from CZI, the organisations are in a strong position to achieve two key goals over the next two years. The first is to develop PREreview’s software and engagement strategies to allow new communities to solicit and create expert feedback on preprints. The second is to help enable reviewing organisations and societies to implement their own flavours of the ‘publish, review, curate’ model that PREreview and Sciety are showcasing, by building systems that facilitate and display expert reviews and curated lists….”

Runway for sustainability: OLS awarded funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to power its next phase | Open Life Science

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“OLS [Open Life Science] is absolutely delighted to share the news that as of January 2022, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has awarded OLS a total of USD 574,945.30 over the next two years. This grant will provide OLS with a truly valuable opportunity to improve sustainability for the organisation and community, and allow enough time to focus on planning for the longer term.

Activities over 2022 and 2023 will include:

Four open research mentoring and training cohorts: OLS-5 applications have closed, and we will run OLS-6 in the second half of 2022, followed by OLS-7 and OLS-8 in 2023. As in the last cohorts, OLS will continue to cater to researchers and the open-research curious from all backgrounds.

New Open Source Software module in the OLS curriculum: OLS team will co-design a new module on Open Source Software to be delivered as an additional skill-up enhancement for those who have software and code-related projects and wish to attend it.

Sustainability and business model planning: Until recently, OLS was fully volunteer-driven. For cohorts 3 and 4, we were able to offer small payments in the form of honoraria to some of our mentors and call facilitators. This will be a core offering over 2022 and 2023, as well as dedicated time to pay the OLS core team to work on OLS….”

Meta Transition. Meta.org will sunset March 31, 2022 | by Chan Zuckerberg Science Initiative | Oct, 2021 | Medium

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“With Meta, our goal was to give researchers, patient communities, science societies, and research organizations more ways to discover the research they need. We did this by mapping biomedical knowledge to help researchers learn a new area or keep up-to-date in a field through precise and flexible feed design, personalized ranking, and surfacing the broadest array of research outputs.

We recognize that Meta is one of many discovery tools available to the research community operating in a complex ecosystem. Since its transition from beta to a public release in fall 2019, more organizations and communities have entered the research discovery space, and they are already exploring and experimenting with new technologies to enhance discovery and keep current with research….”

Open Science – Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

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“Our goal is universal and immediate open sharing of all scientific knowledge and outputs. With our Open Science program, we empower more people to engage in research practices that accelerate the pace, robustness, and reproducibility of science through partnerships, policies, and grants. Helping scientists build on each others’ work can dramatically accelerate the pace of discovery, and in turn, our understanding of health and disease.

We support our grantees and the broader scientific community to deposit software code to open repositories, make experimental protocols openly accessible, and submit manuscripts to preprint servers to communicate results more quickly….”

Job Application for Project Manager, Science Programs at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

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“We are seeking a Project Manager to handle programmatic operations for the two teams. This role will be split between the two teams, with similar duties and responsibilities for both. The two teams work alongside each other, however they have two separate streams of work. This role will report to the Science Program Officer for Open Science and will work closely with both the program teams and with CZI’s science, technology, and communications teams….

The Open Science team’s vision is to accelerate the pace and reproducibility of science through enabling open science practices such as methods, data, and software sharing. We aim to achieve this goal by shifting incentives and culture in scientific communities towards early, open sharing and collaboration. We work with organizations and teams that advance openness in biomedical research through support for infrastructure, computational capacity building, and output sharing. 

The Science in Society team works with patient communities, scientists, policymakers, advocates and philanthropic partners to build public trust in science and bring biomedical research closer to the communities it aims to serve.  We work cross-functionally with our technology, advocacy, and engagement teams to strengthen communities and partnerships, advance policy, and build infrastructure to accelerate research.  Our current initiatives aim to advance patient-driven research and enhance public trust and engagement in science….”

Job Application for Project Manager, Science Programs at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

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“We are seeking a Project Manager to handle programmatic operations for the two teams. This role will be split between the two teams, with similar duties and responsibilities for both. The two teams work alongside each other, however they have two separate streams of work. This role will report to the Science Program Officer for Open Science and will work closely with both the program teams and with CZI’s science, technology, and communications teams….

The Open Science team’s vision is to accelerate the pace and reproducibility of science through enabling open science practices such as methods, data, and software sharing. We aim to achieve this goal by shifting incentives and culture in scientific communities towards early, open sharing and collaboration. We work with organizations and teams that advance openness in biomedical research through support for infrastructure, computational capacity building, and output sharing. 

 

The Science in Society team works with patient communities, scientists, policymakers, advocates and philanthropic partners to build public trust in science and bring biomedical research closer to the communities it aims to serve.  We work cross-functionally with our technology, advocacy, and engagement teams to strengthen communities and partnerships, advance policy, and build infrastructure to accelerate research.  Our current initiatives aim to advance patient-driven research and enhance public trust and engagement in science….”

New Dataset Makes Coronavirus Research Open and Machine Readable – Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

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“The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative collaborated with leaders in government, academia, medicine, and technology to create a new, open dataset containing research literature related to the coronavirus. The COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) released today will be available on multiple platforms, and will continue to be updated as new research emerges….”

How Open Source Software Contributors Are Accelerating Biomedicine

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“Each day, hundreds of thousands of scientists use open source software to advance biology and medicine, from studying cells in a microscope image to understanding how genes behave in healthy cells. Open source software underpins much of modern scientific research — providing reproducibility, transparency, and opportunities for collaboration. The impact of these tools is on par with some of the most cited papers in science in terms of reuse and adoption, yet even the most widely-used research software often lacks dedicated funding.

Our Essential Open Source Software for Science (EOSS) program was created to support these efforts — from software maintenance to growth, development, and community engagement for open source tools that are critical to science. We asked nine grantees from the first cycle of the EOSS program what drives them to create tools and how their commitment to open source moves science forward….”

Job Application for Science Program Manager, Open Science at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

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“Our mission is to support science and technology that will help make it possible to cure, prevent, or manage all diseases by the end of the century. Interdisciplinary teams of physicians, biologists, computational scientists, and engineers can expand our understanding of the human body and illness — the very science behind medicine. CZI fosters collaboration between scientists and engineers, develops tools and technologies, and builds support for basic scientific research. 

Open science—the practice of sharing data, methods, software, and results in the open in a timely and effective manner, so that other scientists have the ability to learn and build on them—is core to our vision. We believe open science is key to empowering more people to engage in research and accelerate the pace, robustness, and reproducibility of science. In order to achieve this goal, we will invest in platforms and initiatives that can shift incentives and culture in scientific communities towards early, open sharing and collaboration. 

We are supporting the scientific open source software ecosystem through a dedicated grant program (EOSS), as well as in-house software development through our software engineering and computational biology teams. We are supporting large-scale open data initiatives like the Human Cell Atlas, a global project to create a complete reference map of all the cells in the human body. We have invested in platforms like bioRxiv and Protocols.io to accelerate sharing and linking of research outputs and we are building Meta, a biomedical research discovery service.

As a Science Program Manager for Open Science, you will drive the execution of open science initiatives in the scientific communities CZI serves. You will manage and assist the development and operations of grant programs to support open science, including programs in progress, planned, or future programs to be developed. You will coordinate closely with the rest of the CZI Science team and the external community. You will be a public advocate of CZI’s mission and our priorities in open science and you will contribute to shaping our strategic directions in this area. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of open science practices, how open source software, open data, and collaborative platforms are used in science, and how open communities function….”