Español It is estimated that there are 1.8M scientific articles published every year, but about half aren’t read by anyone except the reviewers and editor. Either 50% of research is worthless (and thus 50% of funding misspent), or we have a serious discovery problem. Many public and private institutions are increasingly seeing the importance of the web for distributing … [Read more...] about 4 tips to create a good knowledge repository
Why Governments should open up to open data
Español Last year’s Regional Conference on Open Data in LAC that took place in Montevideo was a turning point for open data in Latin America. It was the first Regional Conference and was supported by several international development organizations. Some months later, at the Open Government Partnership Summit 2013, a panel discussing the lessons learned from the Open Data … [Read more...] about Why Governments should open up to open data
6 key ideas to understanding Open Access in Latin America and the Caribbean
Español What is known as “Open Access” today began very early on in Latin America with SciELO, driven in large part by the emergence of the Internet and the desire by researchers and educators in Latin American to have their intellectual outputs gain higher visibility, mainly in the international communities and with the public in general, and to democratize the access to … [Read more...] about 6 key ideas to understanding Open Access in Latin America and the Caribbean
10,000 shared stories of change with 1 toolkit
Español It is surprising that those who try to resolve basic but important social problems often lack the knowledge of how to scale up the solution found to a problem. Fortunately we are now witnessing the rise of new social movements that try to simplify and disseminate this kind of knowledge in the hope that solutions will snowball, reaching and being applied by more and … [Read more...] about 10,000 shared stories of change with 1 toolkit