We’re back with another episode of TL;DR Shorts featuring Joy Owango, the Founding Director of the Training Centre in Communication, or TCC Africa. In today’s episode, Joy discusses the importance of open infrastructures in improving the persistence and visibility of ALL research information from across the world to better include and impact all of society.
Joy believes that open infrastructure can tackle both of these challenges and has already gone some way to proving its value in connecting people to underexplored areas of research and underrepresented researchers. Open infrastructures can also help us better analyse and understand the networks forming within and beyond research to drive research, discovery and innovation.
Reflecting on the impact that open research infrastructures have already had on the visibility and the collaborative discovery potential of African research outputs, Joy knows first-hand that these new ways of supporting research are already working – but she encourages us to create an even stronger framework within which everyone’s research contributions can be seen and built upon.
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