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Special Edition Newsletter • Week 51/2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of our newsletter. With our weekly news, we share with you insights and guidance for
Newsletter • Week 45/2025
In this week’s issue, we reflect on our time at UbuntuNet-Connect 2025 in Harare, Zimbabwe, where we facilitated the Open
Responsible Use of AI for Researchers
In a world where scientific progress holds the key to solving humanity’s most pressing challenges, Henri Max Deda, co-founder of scienceOS.ai, shares his journey from molecular biologist to science communicator and entrepreneur. Speaking with Jo Havemann, Deda reflects on how his diverse background and a pivotal lecture on the “Network Effect” inspired him to co-create a platform that empowers researchers to collaborate and innovate more effectively.
Identifiers and Inequality: Reassessing PIDs Through a Global Equity Lens
Sergio Santamarina works as a librarian at a public university in Argentina, and has a focus on open science practices and challenges in Latin America. Together with Jo, he explores issues around open access publishing requirements, the cost barriers for obtaining Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) in Latin American universities, and the importance of decentralized networks and persistent identifiers in research.
AI and Its Conflicting Objectives from a Sustainability Perspective – A conversation with Friederike Rohde about the relationship between AI and global climate justice
Dr Friederike Rohde is a sustainability researcher with a background in science and technology studies. She is committed to the
AfricArXiv Open Science Webinar Series: A Year in Review
AfricArXiv, a free digital archive for African research, has played a pivotal role in advancing open science on the continent. Established in 2018 and hosted by UbuntuNet Alliance since 2023, the platform is being tailored towards meeting the needs of African researchers, leveraging the Alliance’s extensive network.
Open Science workshop in Zambia
We were enormously honored to deliver a workshop on Open Science, Open Data and Open Repositories to librarians at the 2024 Zambia Research and Education Network (ZAMREN) Week & Annual General Meeting.
Tools to help you accelerate your research (open source)
Presented to you by Veronica Espinoza, explore eight open-access tools (web-based) that will help you accelerate your research process.
How digital scholarly service platforms facilitate research rigor and transparency – A conversation with Nici Pfeiffer
Nici Pfieffer is Chief Product Officer at the Center for Open Science and in that position works towards enabling researchers to share their work to advance the transparency and reproducibility of science. With Jo, she talks about the importance of open digital infrastructure and how she contributes to research rigor and the achievements made through her work.