How might we help supporters of openness take steps towards open practice without needing to change existing rules ? [Workshop Challenge]

[InquisitiveVi]

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At a glance

• Submission Name: How might we help supporters of openness take steps towards open practice without needing to change existing rules?
• Contact Lead: Linda Lew: [email protected], Vinodh Ilangovan: [email protected]
• Region: #Asia
• Issue Area: #OpenAccess #OpenData #OpenEducation #OpenResearch
• Issue Type: #challenge #RegionalWorkshop

Description

OpenCon this year will include workshops focused on advancing regional-specific issues in Open Research and Open Education. In one of these workshops we’re proposing and going to be working through “How might we help supporters of openness take steps towards open practice without needing to change existing rules ?”.

We were interested in this question because Open Research is still in its infancy throughout Asia rendering traditional practices dominate the institutional culture, in a very heterogenous setting. For example, journal lists endorsed by national bodies eventually restrict open practice at individual level. We are interested in exploring how to overcome such barriers to openness within the existing system.

Participation

During the workshop (as well as before—and after!) we invite anyone to help tackle this challenge. You don’t need to be part of the workshop — or conference to share your thoughts and ideas! We’ll keep this issue up to date with anything we do or learn.

How can others contribute?

Anyone can contribute to these efforts. The place to start in helping us more deeply understand the challenge from more angles. We’ve started the effort in this Google Document, and we invite you to jump in and share any thoughts. Before the workshop, we’ll use that document to help make sure our theme has the right emphasis and help plan the workshop.

For those not in the room, subscribe to this issue. We’ll post our outputs and notes here immediately after every session!

If you have an idea or comment to share that isn’t in the problem refinement exercise, and that you think won’t be covered in the workshop, we’d love to hear from you in the Github comments below.

This post is part of the OpenCon 2017 Do-A-Thon. Not sure what's going on? Head here.

[lindadalew]

Hi everyone! Here is the session notes for the Culture Change - Asia workshop: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Mqy5nJsejcXuj5I0e0aTI_ESaW9TmO7k1bXZFOidakA/edit#heading=h.e5vkozaij0ck

Please help contribute! Thanks

[char-siuu-bao]

Empathy Maps - Session 1 Outputs

[char-siuu-bao]

Journey Maps & Ideation - Session 2 Outputs

[lindadalew]

We've come up with the idea of Open Access Asia and here are some goals for the group. OPEN ACCESS ASIA.docx

[InquisitiveVi]

During the Do-a-Thon

                                                         OPEN ACCESS ASIA 

Aliya Ibraimova, Linda, Lew, Vrushali Dandawate, Kanok Monirul Islam, Vinodh Objectives- 1 To make a open platform for all OA Advocates in Asia 2 To hold workshop/ conferences/ seminars in all Asian Country by rotations helping effect culture change across institutions. 3 Networks Sharing for OA Advocate in all Asian Countries through bulletin, write ups
4 This will be a platform for advocating Open Access and sharing success stories of OA movement in world and Asia 5 It invites everyone who is involved and interested in OA movement open to discuss and raise issues related to Open Access in general and specific to Asia 6 Collaborate with OCS Network and leverage with other such networks for information exchange 7 This team will influence policy makers, research workers, researchers, scholarly societies for their research and move institutions towards adopting open access policy across Asia.

Future Goals 1 Start blog post and podcast on Open Access (denounce journals as the primary source of scholarship) 2 To provide various grants to support people do implement open in their projects 3 Collaborate with various organizations (potentially Wikimedia foundation) and advance knowledge.

(Discussion with Osman Aldirdiri on including middle east) https://github.com/sparcopen/doathon/issues/66

[InquisitiveVi]

Go to challenge https://github.com/sparcopen/doathon/issues/67 for the outcome from workshop: How might we improve accessibility for grants/ funding for projects that follow open principles.

[VrushaliD123]

#66 We need all OA Advocate support to promote this project