Mastodawn

Jan R. Boehnke Sep 3, 2025

While #OpenScience provides substantial opportunities for researchers in #LMICs, this paper highlights core global barriers and inequities
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25152459251357565
It is also a good general introduction into OS!

It is important to recognise that current OS practices may not suit local contexts in #LMICs given how strongly they have been shaped (so far!) by researchers in #HICs. There is ample opportunity for #HICs to learn and improve practices from this dialogue!

#ECRs #ResearchDesign

Dr Susi Arnott Jul 22, 2024

Yes, lets worry about creatives losing work in #HICs - but here's one of the nastiest aspects of #culturalAI #NeoColonialism #Kenya
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/02/ai-chatbot-training-human-toll-content-moderator-meta-openai?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models

Employees describe the psychological trauma of reading and viewing graphic content, low pay and abrupt dismissals

The Guardian

petersuber Sep 26, 2023

Global research-and-development (R&D) investment works out to $1,286 per capita per year in high-income countries and just $42 in low and middle income countries.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02998-4

The article focuses on "benevolent #patent extension" as a partial remedy. "An inventor who applies to patent a ‘benevolent discovery’ — one that targets LMICs’ needs — [can] offset the R&D costs by extending another patent, for a ‘non-essential’ product."

#HICs #LMICs #North #South #Patents #Licensing

‘Benevolent’ patent extensions could raise billions for R&D in poorer countries

Research into vaccines, crop seeds and other innovations for low- or middle-income nations could be rewarded by offering longer patent coverage for profitable, non-essential inventions.