Apply to attend the first AfricaOSH summit + NSF OSH response paper

[Shannon Dosemagen]

Passing on an event that was just announced and is now accepting applications. This is the first African open science hardware summit (it is also open for people from outside Africa). It'll be in Kumasi, Ghana from April 13-15, 2018 and should be an incredible event. More information can be found here: http://www.africaosh.com/#gtco-about 

Also wanted to point to a short response that was drafted by a number of people working in open hardware and science to the U.S. National Science Foundation when they asked for suggestions of research areas that could benefit from "networks of networks" between the U.S. and other international locations. If you want to take a read, it's posted here.

Shannon

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[Mad Tinker]

Shannon, 

The ‘network of networks’ concept sounds wonderful.  I think my only observation is that it seems that there is nothing to keep all these good things from being ‘trapped’ in large metro areas, particularly in the U.S.  

I am currently working on developing a STEM program in a very small, very rural area in the US. For all the good things that I saw happening (and was involved with) in a big city before I moved here, few of the existing STEM projects that I’ve found made an effort to ‘push’ the science out to the rural communities. From a political perspective, this neglect has been a contributing factor to how frustrated these folks are with science issues, e.g. climate change, and scientists in general.  Having worked with NSF on a few occasions, I understand that there are other factors involved here, but just wanted to point out a bit of frustration from the peanut gallery.  

Cheers,

Dave Robinson

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[Gilbert Rochon]

Thank, Shannon. Very interesting! I submitted my registration. -Gilbert

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[Shannon Dosemagen]

Thanks for your comment Dave! I strongly agree that we need to think regionally (urban centers + surrounding localities-- rural/sub-urban) to address the frustrations that exist with the issues you've identified. The trap that you are mentioning is true-- higher population numbers, resources, geographic proximities allow projects to bloom (and stay) in urban centers, which doesn't always address the unique issues and concerns in the surrounding region. 

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Mad Tinker <mad.tink...@gmail.com> wrote:

Shannon, 

The ‘network of networks’ concept sounds wonderful.  I think my only observation is that it seems that there is nothing to keep all these good things from being ‘trapped’ in large metro areas, particularly in the U.S.  

I am currently working on developing a STEM program in a very small, very rural area in the US. For all the good things that I saw happening (and was involved with) in a big city before I moved here, few of the existing STEM projects that I’ve found made an effort to ‘push’ the science out to the rural communities. From a political perspective, this neglect has been a contributing factor to how frustrated these folks are with science issues, e.g. climate change, and scientists in general.  Having worked with NSF on a few occasions, I understand that there are other factors involved here, but just wanted to point out a bit of frustration from the peanut gallery.  

Cheers,

Dave Robinson

On Dec 11, 2017, at 3:34 PM, Shannon Dosemagen <sha...@publiclab.org> wrote:

Passing on an event that was just announced and is now accepting applications. This is the first African open science hardware summit (it is also open for people from outside Africa). It'll be in Kumasi, Ghana from April 13-15, 2018 and should be an incredible event. More information can be found here: http://www.africaosh.com/#gtco-about 

Also wanted to point to a short response that was drafted by a number of people working in open hardware and science to the U.S. National Science Foundation when they asked for suggestions of research areas that could benefit from "networks of networks" between the U.S. and other international locations. If you want to take a read, it's posted here.

Shannon

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