 It is so great to see so many faces, I know we've been talking with people, it's like it's so great to see you three dimensional instead of two dimensional in this screen. We know that people have traveled near and far so again we are so grateful to see everyone here. Before I get ready to introduce our first keynote, I do want to remind everyone that we partnered with a women's local community to bring the Lama game today and so we want to make sure that everyone please make sure you go out and play the game but we also want you to know that it's not just a Lama. These were actually all individually handmade and we're so able, we're so glad that we were able to work with the local communities so please make sure you go out there, have fun. I heard some people giving tips and tricks on how to make sure you get that Lama so make sure you ear hustle or work with someone that you know how to get those Lamas but again make sure you take one as a souvenir and a token of appreciation for coming to be with us this week during our CSV comp. So now we are getting ready to have our first keynote, we do hope that you all have enjoyed your sessions earlier this morning and so I am pleased to be able to introduce someone that I've known for seven years and have never seen her personally in person until about three hours ago. So that was pretty exciting but today I get to introduce Laura Acyon, she asked her what do you want me to say about you and she said it's really not about me and you understand why but she's going to talk to us today about Collective Creative Open Science and as you've seen in the talk really we're going to learn today about how to co-create and co-develop communities particularly in open science in the global south but she's going to give us a little bit more detail so I don't want to spill the beans or give you too much or give you too much of a teaser because she's going to tell us everything that she wants us to know so let's give a warm welcome for Laura Acyon. Thank you so much Sarah for that interaction. It's been lovely to meet you and I didn't, Zoom doesn't make you justice of course, none of you indeed. So I'm, oh heck I'm nervous, yeah but I'm pleased, this is my first international keynote. I'm 47 years old, well okay, don't mess with the time please. Keep all the applause for the end, okay, deal? Deal? Thank you. So it's, yeah, and I'm very grateful that it's happening in my city because yeah I'm nervous but I didn't have to do a long haul of eight plus hours for once to an international conference or deal with visa issues or deal with lost luggage or, you know, all our visitors here may have had to go through so I feel you and I thank you for the extra effort because it's nice not to be the one for once when you get to travel of course, right? And I hope, we're going to make it worth your while so and I hope you're already enjoying beautiful Buenos Aires. With that collective creation of open science, it's going to be inspired in worker bees because we know that excellent science is done by a bunch, a ton of worker bees, invisible bees, so that's going to be the whole metaphor all over here. Okay, but first things first, this is the hive that is behind me and that has worked really very, very hard and even a lot more than I to put together this talk today. So thanks, thank you metadata team on that. Lorela Sensi and Julián Huere that had put a lot more, yeah, Lorela, please show yourself. Yeah, yeah, just like that applause is definitely welcome, thank you. So these two guys worked a lot more than I, I'm here just like because I had to be here. Yeah, that's my name, I wear a lot of hats and I've been wearing a lot of hats since over 30 years ago in research because I started my first geek in research was when I was 15 in the Natural Museum, Argentina Museum of Natural Sciences in Parque Centenario in the city. I bred fossils and also type a PhD dissertation reference because back in the age there was no point and click, you know, reference managers and so and they paid me like not for my time really or the person's time but they pay me some symbolic honorarium for that work volunteer work because, you know, so I at least I didn't have to pay out of my pocket to travel there. So it's been 30 over 30 years, it's a really long career. So many, many hats over the years, many, many hats still today. For the sake of this talk, I'm a researcher coming from biostatistics that specializes in health artificial intelligence or data science, particularly the responsible use of data at the University of Buenos Aires and I also co-founded Metadosensio. And you think maybe we have someone that was born in Buenos Aires, from Latin America, we got diversity here, well, no. I come from an ultra-privileged elite in this city and in the region because I'm white, I speak English, I got a PhD in the U.S., I'm a ten-year academic, a real kind in Argentina and you get the idea, several intersectionalities of privilege, which that's why I'm here and a lot of other folks are not. And the majority of the folks that should be here are not. So now let's go to the hive and what are the experiences we had of collecting creation of healthy and safe community, inclusive communities in the Global South in Latin America. It all started in 2017 with our ladies Buenos Aires, I co-founded the first active chapter of our ladies' global in this city back then and well, then it grew up a lot in the region and up to being today 30% of our ladies' global in Latin America, which is the same as in the U.S. and in Western Europe. But let us hear about our ladies Buenos Aires today because it's been a while I don't do anything with them. Oops, and that's something that it's going wrong because I didn't turn off Spotify. Okay, now it should work. Hola, mi nombre es Monica Lanzo, vivo en Buenos Aires, Argentina y represento a Ladies Buenos Aires. Formamos parte de our ladies, que es una organización internacional que promueve la diversidad de género en la comunidad de ARRE y tiene más de 200 capítulos en todo el mundo. Desde a Ladies Buenos Aires realizamos talleres, online o presenciales y abiertos a toda la comunidad para aprender sobre ARRE y difundir novedades o trabajos realizados, nuevos paquetes. También interactamos con comunidades amigas, por ejemplo las de sistemas, women in data sañes, metadosencia y otras. En estos casos lo hacemos promocionando eventos, dictando terceres o participando de mesas en algunas conferencias realizadas por estas comunidades. Thank you, Moni. Thank you very much. And as you heard, our ladies Buenos Aires already has a hive of communities around, right? Moni named a few. So that's the idea, you know, little hives that get together with other little hives and make a larger hive, it all started here. Then 2018, 2019, a huge among us amount of work, a ton of communities that I'm on the record talking about, so that's all news. Newest news is 2020. And there, Worker B, Maldica Sharon, came to this Worker B, hey Laura, you should know or less, it's a cool hive, safe, inclusive, diverse, and we would like to connect more with the Latin American hive, come visit us, and the same thing for the Trinway. And I went flying there and I was like, hmm, this feels really good. I really feel included, I really feel well. So I buzzed back to Latin American and say, hey, we should all go there. Let's start buzzing around these communities. So let's hear about the Trinway, and maybe some jazz will pop up. The Trinway is a collaborative project of open code that allows the diversity of its members to ensure that data science is beneficial for all people. It's a book, a project of open code, a community, and a collaboration culture. A book is about reproducibility. The objective of this project is to make the reproducible research too easy to do. To make it completely reproducible, we have to take all the steps in the cycle of research, and that can be overwhelming, but that's what the Trinway is for. The project is co-led by Kierci Wittecker and Malvika Charan, and has more than 400 contributors worldwide. Thank you so much for your allership, the Trinway, and if you want to learn more, do not miss their talk tomorrow at 2.30 pm in room A. But in 2020, March 2020, we all know what happened, so the Latin American hive was What do we do with the online classes? Oh, we didn't know how to teach online already. And folks really need it. So that's how Metadocencia came along. And let us hear about Metadocencia from someone from the community. We say that since Metadocencia, we have been building communities collaborating for the availability of high-quality resources, which accords with strengths, the strengths of inequality that enable key sectors, and that allow the development of regional capacity, technical science, and research. We work so that production, exchange and application of scientific knowledge are globally equitable, all of this with a local perspective. Thank you, Rami, and if you all want to know more about the amazing research work that Metadocencia is starting to develop because we are all researchers and technicians, go tomorrow to their talk at 2.30 pm in room B. So till here, all the work that I was mentioning, except for a lesson that you know, I'm talking about them, it was volunteer work in the Latin American high. And, well, it's not a beauty. It's a problem. And it's pervasive in open science, in open source, in academia, even in activism. Why? Well, it's not sustainable. It's prone to burnout. It's prone to exploitation. And as of late, I've discovered that it's also a huge guilt trip for those that do not have the privilege of time to volunteer for free their time. So, well, it's actually a barrier for real diversity and inclusion. You have the privilege of time when you know when, right? So this symbolic honoraria of paying at least expenses of what it gets to be there, even if these are symbolic honoraria paid by the Global North, oh, well, they go a long way. So never diminish those and try to do those, or micro grants. And don't take me wrong here. I'm not talking about grassroots organizations that are just starting. Of course, I'm not naive. You need to start somewhere with volunteer time. I'm talking here about global organizations with millions of dollars of funding, or with access in the north to get them. So, and if you are starting a grassroots organization, you need to start thinking about funding on day one, because otherwise you will not be sustainable. You will burn out your volunteers, so on and so forth. And believe me, I know it's not easy, but I've been there and done that. So don't repeat my mistakes. And with that, I want to tell you that we were survivors at Metadocencia, because at the brink of burnout, it came God, Foreign Science and Society, CES and S for the friends. And not for the friends, but, you know, acronyms. And, like, and we get to them because our dear Kate Herrwerk just convinced me that I was not going to be bounced back once more. And with them, we won a first event fund, and then a second event fund, and then we even got fiscal sponsor by them. When I couldn't even find any funding among friends in the region or anywhere else, and less fiscal sponsorship. Because apparently the little apple was too fun or something, I don't know. So, and that structure, and don't get it wrong, God, Foreign Science and Society is not just a fiscal sponsor. They also have buzzing communities of practice. And as of late, they are developing one that is at the intersection of climate change, infectious disease, software development, and then users. And it's looking very interesting. I don't, and they are inclusive of Latin America. So, you might want to check it out and make sure to reach out to them. And by no means miss out on the reception today, I fought PM at a really beautiful rooftop a few blocks from here. So, and with that structure and fiscal structure for metatosensia, and this, that little money that make us run through 2021 came along ZZI. And let us hear about ZZI. My name is Kate Hurtwick. I live in Seattle, Washington, and the United States. I'm speaking to you today as a representative of Chen Zuckerberg Initiative, where I work as a program manager on the open science team as a part of the science initiative. CZI science aims to cure, prevent, or manage all human diseases by the end of this century. CZI engages in this work by building open source software tools, funding scientific research, resources, and infrastructure, and doing science via our family of institutes. On the open science team, we support this goal with a vision for universal and immediate open sharing of all scientific knowledge, processes, and outputs. When presented with the question, how do you build community from your organization? I reflect on our vision. Universal sharing means a global, diverse, and inclusive community has access to all parts of science. At CZI, we build this community by funding organizations and projects that increase access to scientific research, support underrepresented individuals in science, and more generally support open science practices among the biomedical research community. We build community by listening to and learning from the communities we want to support, so that we can help them create the resources they need. Thank you so much for your allyship for the open science team at CZI. And with that push and that sustainability grant we got from CZI that allowed Metatosensia to go from almost fully volunteer to fully funded for a couple of years until we get farther, came more opportunities of collaborating with OLS, and I want to take this opportunity to thank Yoyehudi in the middle of the screen here for insights about this talk. And we were able to start buzzing around other hives in Africa this time, more global south to south graduations and Boalab in Cameroon, Talarifi in South Africa. But it's not like we forgot Latin America, don't worry. We also met La Congo physics from Andean Latin America, and no less incubated this super cool kind of new community, but here them out. In Conventoreal, we develop educational resources linked to the scientific edition, and we create spaces for sharing experiences and knowledge in the field of the scientific edition. Our objective is to promote scientific science, the scientific production, and the promotion of growth of research magazines in Latin America and the Caribbean. In Conventoreal, we create and promote a work that is with respect to the times of all those involved, with prioritization of mental health and personal development. Thank you so much, Jose Luis. And the hive kept growing over 2022. We got to work with Cabana and with the Latin American Initiative for Open Data with Fundación Vía Libre. And by the way, do not miss Fundación Vía Libre's talk tomorrow at 3.20 in room B. And oh, and I forgot to mention OLS also. It's having a presentation tomorrow at 2.55 in room C. So do not miss if you want to learn more about OLS. Sorry OLS. I love you, you know, but I forgot to mention. And we also got to buzz around this other project. Thank you Sabrina, and I recommend you her talk today at 3.20 p.m. in room B. And well, the hive keeps growing and growing and growing. And these are all communities that, you know, kind of work together indirectly because healthy, inclusive. And there's also, you know, there's it's a huge hive at this point. I will show you one last video about this brilliant team. My name is Emmy Tang. I live in Detroit in the Netherlands. And I am the Engagement Lead at Invest in Open Infrastructure. Hi, my name is Jerry Selanga. I live in Nairobi, Kenya. And I'm the Communications Associated IOI. IOI is a nonprofit initiative dedicated to improving funding and resourcing for open community-owned technologies and systems supporting research and scholarship. We aim to provide targeted evidence-based guidance to funders and supporters of open infrastructure worldwide on how and where to invest. So how do we build community? We're very grateful to be in partnership with value aligned organizations across the globe, like MetaDocencia and the West and Central Africa Research and Education Network, WACREN. Working with them has enabled us to always think about the people whose voices are missing from conversations about funding and infrastructure and how we can listen more closely and help to amplify their voices. We are really happy to be part of this buzzing community and we're looking forward to opportunities to know more about you. Thank you so much for your ally-shaped IOI team. And the latest addition to our wonderful inclusive hi is NASA. Yeah, NASA, the rocket science thing. And I kind of believe it, but it's true because, well, we're going to be teaching how to transform research to open science in Spanish from MetaDocencia, but together with OLS, two I2C, and God for Science and Society. So healthy hives, right? Excellent science. So some practicalities on how we get to the healthy hives. Essentially, we all know it's not solo science, right? It's not one, two novel prices. It's all about workers. It's been for decades. And I don't study those phenomena, but it's pretty obvious. We all know it. So how does it... So in a nutshell, go collective. Let's go really collective, for real. And how do you do that? Well, you pay for and invest in persons and high building, safe, high building, inclusive high building. So you don't use volunteers when you have money. And how do you get to safety? You include the locally marginalized in your decision tables, and they get to vote. Why? Because otherwise, you will not get safe communities because they have no power, and you will not get to know when they don't feel included. And they are unsafe because they have no power. So you need to include them. And, well, have you noticed all these wonderful, diverse communities from all over the globe, and how potent they are? Incubate geographical diverse grassroots initiatives. It's a really good idea, in my humble opinion. And let's stop solo keynotes, please, and solo awards, and solo prizes, and solo personalisms, and individualisms. Let's cut that. Yeah, I know, right? I'm solo here, not for too long. So let's prioritize collaboration, the greater good, diversity, transdisciplinary, which is a special kind of diversity. Let's, you know, all disciplines the same stage, not like just computer science, like the green and then the rest. And the last one is the most important. Let's keep ourselves really accountable, because it's very easy to come here and say very nice words, and then go home and do nothing, and give, like, these recommendations. They're easy for me, right? I know none of the above is easy to do. But really, I know, I empathize. But let's keep ourselves accountable for real. And if we don't do the above, let's lose the funding. That's, you know, this capitalistic work only understands money. So let's keep ourselves accountable in the real world. With that, I want to invite you all. I only show you a part of the hive, and you can go to this link and know them all. It's a lot larger than what I show you, thanks to the huge amount of work that Lorel and Julian put there. And now, when you think about the questions that you have about these topics, I want to invite here with me, this is going to become a mini-panel, and I would like you to join me to welcome with a really warm, and all the screams come now, okay? Not before. Please join me to welcome Dr. José Luis Vilca Villegas from Connectorial. Please, Jose Luis. Dr. Tania Hernandez from IOI. Dr. Sabrina Lopez from RFI. Dr. Jessica Formoso from Our Lady's Buenos Aires and Meta docencia. Dr. Malvika Sharan from The Turing Way and OLS. And last, but not at all least, Dr. Kate Herwood from the Open Science Team at ZZI. Yeah, okay. This is starting to look a little bit like the obelisk when they work up. I think you watched that video. So, okay, so probably, right? So while you keep organizing your thoughts and questions, I have one for them. That is, if you had a magic wand that could grant you anything for your project, organization, community, what thing would you do? Would you, what wish would you ask that magic wand? And why? And who would like to start with that one? Go ahead. Kate, please. Thank you. I represent, oh, take mine. Gracias. If I had a magic wand for my community, which is very diverse, globally distributed, includes people like those you see here, a lot of open source developers, people who are in technology, people who work with people, I would want for them the time and the space to really talk with each other and learn more about how they might be able to interact. This is a cheater answer because we also know that time and space require money. They require the ability of people to meet together. But I think ultimately it's that communication that's really necessary to help people understand how they might be able to interact. And I think that what Laura has been discussing today is creating that space for people to be able to do that. So in fact, you have brought the magic wand. Thank you, Kate. Who wants to go next here? Somebody. I just saw you move your hand. So go ahead. Yeah, you don't have a lot of time to be too polite here. Well, I'm here representing our fight. That is a community that is just starting. And we always need more funding, obviously. And we want to have the opportunity for more calls for funding. They're truly centered in the global south because it's not easy to apply to these. As Laura said, for example, speaking English or writing English is a privilege in our region. So we want truly calls that, how do you say? Say it in Spanish. Consider it. That consider. That consider. Communication issues, not just the language because we can afford that in some way. But for example, the calendar, the seasons, maybe the application is in the middle of our holidays, summer vacations. And that is really, really hard. So that's the whole community desire. Great, Savry. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, for me, it will be the same that Kate. And in Best in Open, we truly believe in collaborations, but always the constraint of time. We don't have the space. And also, there are not that many incentives to collaborate with other organizations because funders assign the resources to only one organization. So probably I would say that change kind of grant making is being made to advance more collaborations and also recognize that those collaborations need to have local representation. If we are talking about Latin America, grant makers need to be sure that there is a local organization or collective making that effort. Thank you, Tanya. Maybe we can all ask together nicely. Jesse. Hi, I'm representing our Ladies Buenos Aires. Our Ladies Buenos Aires, we have right now 10 organizers, so I'm talking on behalf of them. And I kind of asked in advance what they wanted to say. And the first thing that came to mind was we want more than 24 hours in the day to get things done. Who's going to pay for that? Yeah. So finally, we agreed that that was kind of hard. But maybe at some point, if the work was, even though volunteered, it was also paid, that wouldn't mean that we could maybe dedicate more quality time to these activities. Also, in Argentina, like in many other countries, women are still in charge of the care and paid work. And it takes a lot of time in our day. So I think that in line with what Laura said before, volunteer work, it's beautiful and sometimes very, very hard if there's no money behind it. Maybe you could all ask our friends in Posit. They may have some few dollars to send us to the cloud. I don't know, just an idea here. Maybe there's some friends that could reach out to them. Malvika, thank you. First of all, I feel so emotional for the inclusive leadership that Laura is providing. And I think when individuals feel valued, there's a lot people can do. And that's authentically what I really, really care for, to create safe and welcoming space where people can come, connect, identify solutions together, co-build it and benefit from it. And often when I'm asked, what should you ask the funders for, I think about, oh, they are looking for big software, big output, big research stuff. But really genuinely, I think we need to care about process development, which is not the output. Can we invest in that? And I'm just going to extend to, I was going to say, can we pay the volunteer, but not just that, can we actually give them the job that they deserve for the skills that they have? Because volunteer work isn't sustainable. Some of the work these volunteers need, because they're creating solutions that are individually important for them, is someone else doing the, I'm using the word, shitty job of admin work, applying funding for them, advocating for them, talking for them, giving them spaces, helping them in the background, make great talks. I feel like we need to just create and diversify positions and pay for the process development. Thank you so much, Malvika. And yeah, totally jobs, of course. I mean, I was criticized in volunteer works, but I'm not saying it should be jobs for real, because all of these volunteers have PhDs, boss dogs, early career researchers, mid-career researchers. I mean, this is huge talent from the region. It's not like some 15-year-old cleaning false eyes in the museum. It's like really highly formed folks that you have. I mean, they are all doctors. Okay, I think it's your turn, Jose Luis, and if you want to go in Spanish, I'll do my best. I'm not a professional translator, but if you want to go in English, go ahead, and whatever you want. Well, I am part of Connectoria. We want to create inclusive leadership in good editorial practice in Latin America, in, well, in Korea, and well, it's our dream to create a network with other editors and potential editors in different areas of science. It's the part of a dream to include more people in, well, in speaking with... Yeah, that's your wish? Yeah, that's my wish. Okay, and awesome. And we really need that in Latin America, because we are, you know... Well, other dreams, we want to collaborate with data science, PECAPE, a public knowledge project, because this organization developed a software that we use, AI use, so often journal system. It's a good software to publish research. Awesome, thank you very much. So that was the question I had for them, but what questions do you have? You had plenty of time to think now, so please. Yes, please. Let me... Hi, thank you for all the insights. One thing I'd like you to talk more about is work relations on those... I'm a software developer, and I'm super privileged, not only by my origin, but also by my job, because it's a hype thing. Everyone needs software developers. We get high salaries, a bunch of shitty companies, but if you search enough, you can't find a decent work relation because of all this privilege. And then we... When you look around and you see people who work in nonprofits, in organizations that... Well, they have a mission to fight for social justice. They have all these beautiful things they're aiming for, but when you look at the people working there, they're getting poor salaries, terrible work hours, no internal democracy, and all sorts of things that you expect from a big company. When you just go work in McDonald's or whatever, you expect this kind of work relation, but when you're working for an organization that supposedly has a mission of making the world better, they should probably start with their workers, right? That's a great question, and I can think of several folks here that could add... I'm like, Jesse could tell us about... Could tell you about the governance building from a title sense, yeah? I think Malvika could tell you a lot about it. I think Tanya can tell you a lot about it, right? I mean, who wants to crack at it? Well, Laura just mentioned we, in Metalsensia, we build governance as a community. I'm only a part of Metalsensia since 2022, and through the process of creating it, I was part of it, and my opinion was valued as well at the same level as everybody else's, and we decided together what kind of structure we wanted, how the decisions would be made, how the people responsible in the coordinating areas would be held accountable if there was something that they weren't doing according to what we thought of together. So I think that way of organizing governance guarantees that the people that it's involved in every level of the organization will be... It's a good relationship with everybody. It's taking care, it's a safe space, and I love it. This one, I have to give shout out to Danielle because we were talking literally about this in the morning, how open sense work is advocacy work, and how it kind of expects... People are expected to work in bad hours and fight for it because they are passionate, and it's very hard to then draw the boundary where does my work stop and me as an individual exist? And I feel like applying feminist lens to the work that we do, recognizing the care work as actually important professional work, accounting for that in terms of monetary... I mean, not everything can be paid, but I think we need to start valuing care work as very expensive work and not free work. And slipping that dynamic at the leadership is very important because if your leader can demonstrate that they are doing the right thing, their employees are more motivated to do it. So if you are a leader, don't be that person. I think, and I know it's hard, but really, if you are going to inspire a younger generation of leaders and you're really showing them a bad leadership, you are building a bad narrative for open sense leadership overall. So the responsibility should be on the leaders. Internal advocacy, if your leaders are bad. Yeah, at the IOI, recently, we did our research on labor arrangements. And other than the volunteer work that Laura mentioned extensively, we also found a lot of disparities in terms of multi-year contracts versus one-month contracts. So even though when we are talking about page job, there are a lot of complexities on that. Also, there is a new trend that employees are getting paid based on the country where they are based, which is really, I mean, there can be pros and cons, but the thing is that people are getting different base doing the same job. So that's also another thing that should be accounted for. Okay, I hope that covers a little bit. And how these communities are... I'm not saying this is done all over. I mean, this is how these vasting communities of Align Value communities is trying to do things. And I admit that essentially we were able to do that because we had the sustain of open science teams. The grant from CCI. You are too complex folks for us. I'm sorry, but yeah, I know it's not your fault. But you're representing the thing here. You said so. Okay, I love you, Kate. Okay, so you need money to get that. It took us several months, a ton of meetings. It's all recorded. It's all documented. And then we tried to share how we did it. And we graded the mission, the vision, the values. How we behave every day according to those values. And every three months we talk to each other. We are a 15-person team. We talk to each other, evaluate how we are doing. And if there's something to correct. So we are trying to build a good culture with what we have. And I forgot to mention that both Sabrina and Jose Luis in their videos mentioned mental health. I don't know if you noticed. But well, in Latin America, we work with really few resources. And we work very, very hard. Maybe the results are not there and communicated properly because we don't have the resources to communicate them. But we really do a ton of work that doesn't get seen. So mental health is more important. Taking care of mental health is more important than ever. So we are trying to build this healthy hive, taking all of those into account. It's working so far. We are keeping fingers crossed. This is not easy at all. We live in a world that goes against all of these values. But I know this is a wonderful community that aligns. I mean, this conference, it's my first time at it. But I know that a lot of you align with these values and support them. So this is an invitation. And if the recommendations I gave you are still very general and you don't know how to implement them back home or in your projects, I'm available to give you more specifics. So reach out anytime. And with that, I think we're going to be closing because I know we have a couple of more minutes. But who, I mean, you all can use a couple of more minutes to go lunch. Thank you very much. Wait, wait, please. Metadocencia team in the room, join me here because this club is for you too. Come on, all here. Take your mask off so people can see your pretty faces if you're comfortable. The high thing, it was all her idea. I am not that creative. Okay, thank you very much.