This was the slides for the workshop on Feminist Open Science presented at ELPUB2018 in Toronto. Notes for the session is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zr51nZ4VRjVNLixeRc_4SPa-liSALADLTbJ1RUJYcpo/edit "This workshop will centre on how current discourse around Open Science has tended to focus on the creation of new technological platforms and tools to facilitate sharing and reuse of a wide range of research outputs, but has largely avoided tackling many important issues related to inclusion of a diversity of perspectives in science. We believe a feminist perspective can help to surface these issues, particularly with regard to the need for inclusive infrastructure, which are especially important as Open Science increasingly becomes part of government agendas and policies. We expect that researchers, practitioners and policy makers interested in Open Science will benefit from this workshop to think about issues of inclusivity in Open Science that are not receiving sufficient attention. We expect participants who attend this workshop will gain awareness about relevant resources and work that has been done by feminist technoscience scholars to expand the perspectives of Open Science. We hope that participants will take away new possibilities for their work that they may not have considered before. For policy makers, this workshop will be particularly relevant to help think about how evidence for Open Science should be assessed from a more feminist inclusive standpoint. The workshop will also present results from a two-day workshop on Feminist Open Science that will take place prior to the ELPUB workshop, with the intent of soliciting feedback and collaboration."

1. Workshop: Feminist Open Science
Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network
(OCSDNet)
http://www.ocsdnet.org
@ocsdnet

2. Agenda
• From Open Access to Open Science
• Open and Collaborative Science in Development
Network: Some Lessons Learned
• OCSD Manifesto
• Open Science <–> Feminist Technoscience
– Reflections on the recent workshop
– Brief Q&A
• PANEL Discussion
– Brief Q&A with audience
• 4 PM: Networking over coffee

3. The World of Scientific Output According to Thomson’s ISI
Science Citation Index
Data from 2002
http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=205

4. Open Access to Open Science
● Why open science?
● OA has been too narrowly focused on journal
articles
● To much emphasis on technical conditions and
legal issues
● Need for Social and Epistemic Interoperability

5. Open Access
•Focus on codified and formal knowledge
•But much knowledge reside in the
communities in multiple forms
•If research is to address social needs, then
we need to think beyond the current system
of knowledge legitimation
•Whose knowledge matters?

6. Meanings of Openness
• Free of cost barriers
• Free of permission barriers
• Free to share and re-use
• Rights to Research, meaning the rights to
participate in knowledge production and
meaning making
• Inclusive Participation (beyond expertise)
• Equitable Collaboration
• Promote Cognitive justice

7. Centre
Could Open Science change the current
power structure of global scientific
production and dissemination?
Periphery
Periphery
open science creates the
potential for new spaces for
collaboration and co-creation
of knowledge

8. What is “Open Science”?
“Open Science is the practice of
science in such a way that others
can collaborate and contribute,
where research data, lab notes and
other research processes are freely
available, under terms that enable
reuse, redistribution and
reproduction of the research and
its underlying data and methods.”
What is missing from this
definition?

9. Openness has not disrupted the current
power structure because it has been
subsumed and co-opted by the dominant
market ideology that sees knowledge as a
commodity rather than a public good

10. Open
Science
Doing Science
Openly
& Collaboratively
Open Data
Open Access
Overarching Framework:
Governance and Sustainability ?
Practice Principles Policy
Knowledge as a
Public Good
Knowing Differently
Inclusion
Innovation
Funding
Infrastructure
Intellectual
Property
Incentive
Rights to Research
for Social Justice

11. This calls for:
• Diverse empirical research on “openness” across
disciplinary boundaries
• Development of rich conceptual frameworks that
acknowledge the diversity of knowledge production,
forms of representations, and legitimation
• Understanding principles of technical and social
interoperability and the supporting institutional
structures
• Rethinking on funding support and incentive structures
• Policy Alignment between funders and development
organizations

12. The Emergence of OCSDNet
“To understand whether, and the conditions
under which, a converging set of open practices
based on networked collaboration, collectively
called “Open and Collaborative Science” (OCS),
could lead to development outcomes in the
Global South.”

13. OCSDNet

14. - 12 Projects throughout
the Caribbean, Latin
America, Africa and Asia
- Researchers and practitioners
from backgrounds including
education, environmental
science, climate change,
community participation, law,
policy analysts, artists,
hackers, etc.

17. OCSDNet
Manifesto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1X0xtB_JcY

18. OCSDNet Manifesto
• Knowledge Commons
• Sustainable Development
• Cognitive Justice
• Right to Research
• Situated Openness
• Equitable Collaboration
• Inclusive Infrastructures
https://ocsdnet.org/manifesto/open-science-manifesto/

19. Open Science should be seen as a
commitment to opening up the
knowledge production and legitimation
process to include those who have been
traditionally excluded, under-
represented and marginalized.

20. Open Science | Feminism
● Shared valuing of process and approach (towards knowledge
production and engagement in the world) … rather than as a
check box or goal to achieve
● feminist tools, theories, frameworks foreground attention to
gender, race and other structures of inequality
● incorporating “gender-sensitive lens” to science and
development should be grounded in feminist theory to
broaden and multiply the lens through which we view the
world.
● We are therefore interested in exploring together how
feminist STS can inform the ongoing work in Open Science and
how this work might also be able to inform feminist STS

21. *intersectionality
consent | refusal
*non-innocence | harm reduction
responsibility
solidarity/mutuality
*affective labor

22. Inclusive Infrastructures
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01816808
“tools, platforms, networks and other socio-
technical mechanisms that deliberately allow
for multiple forms of participation amongst a
diverse set of actors, and which purposefully
acknowledge and seek to redress power
relations within a given context”

23. Data Justice
Data is not neutral. The methods used to collect data, the
circumstances used for its collection, from whom it is collected, and
why, have the potential to tell different stories, which shape the
way that we see the world.
In many cases, we see that data replicates existing power relations;
hence replicating injustice for some communities.
We should think more explicitly about the way that research data is
collected, stored, shared, maintained, accessed, governed,
protected, etc...

24. Community-Research Mutuality
Science with community
A sense of solidarity but even beyond that…
acknowledging the mutual labor and co-construction of
knowledges
the sharing of feeling / action / relationship between two
or more parties (and particularly between traditional
“researchers” and communities)

25. Group Work
• Inclusive Knowledge Infrastructures
• Data Justice
• Community-Research Mutuality
• (How) does the concept apply/relate to your own
current work?
• What are risks/opportunities/challenges related
to this concept?
• How could the concept be understood/unpacked
in the context of a feminist open science?

26. Next steps
● Fleshing out some of these brainstormed concepts,
methodologies, outcomes and assessment mechanisms.
● Developing a substantive concept paper addressing the
question of what sustainable inclusive knowledge
infrastructures that promote feminist Open Science might
look like.
● Brainstorming potential concrete projects that might test
and understand the existing structure of inequality in
knowledge production infrastructures
● Producing a series of blog posts, including guest blog posts
from the participants, recounting the key learnings from the
workshop, to be published via www.ocsdnet.org.

27. @ocsdnet
http://www.ocsdnet.org
Interested in working
with us?
Email us at
info@ocsdnet.org
Thank you!