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How might we make our leaders care about open alongside more urgent issues? [ Workshop Challenge ]
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Submission name: How might we make our leaders care about open alongside more urgent issues? [ Workshop Challenge ]
Contact lead: Ahmed ([email protected]) & Elise ([email protected]) Issue area: #OpenAccess, #OpenData, #OpenEducation, #OpenResearch Region: #Africa Issue Type: #Challenge
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 make our leaders care about open alongside more urgent issues”.
We’re interested in this because as individuals, we’ve both seen how hard it can be to see any change in our leaders (both inside, and outside) universities. However, together we think change, however gradually, is still possible! We’d like to explore ways we could do that on our own campuses.
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 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HfQJcA-kUyoQ75LT4xHiYwFHs8BYV7EayqHG8RkFnv4/edit#heading=h.d011wwf7n2qb, 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.
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