Hi all,
I'm on the executive committee at force11.org, a Community of
Practice focussed on the future of Research Communication and
e-Scholarship. It is an interesting group because of the range
of domains and sectors it involves: Science and humanities,
Commercial and Open access, and so on.
We're in the early planning stages of a series of workshops
on "the Commons and the Silo", in which we want to look
specifically at what is common and what is unique across the
entire domain of scholarly and Scientific dissemination.
I have two questions that this group is probably the best
place to ask.
The first is whether anybody knows of similar groups focussed
specifically on the issues of Research Communication and
dissemination outside the High Income World or of initiatives we
really should know about about scholarly communication in a
global context (I should stress, BTW, that this ignorance is a
reflection on me not Force11).
The second is whether anybody on this list is working on
anything similar and/ or would be interested in being kept in
the loop on our progress.
Thanks in advance as always to this super helpful group!
P.S. If you are interested in these things, please feel free
to say here. But also consider joining force11. It really is an
interesting group!