[open-science] Fundraiser : Help young OA and open science advocates from Haiti go to the World Social Forum

[Florence Piron]

Hello everyone,

I am the leader of the SOHA research-action project whose main objective 
is to introduce open science and open access to Haiti and Francophone 
Africa. SOHA is part of OCSDnet : 
http://ocsdnet.org/projects/universite-laval/.

For nearly 18 months, a huge work has been done. One great outcome is 
the emergence of young open access leaders in these countries. You can 
read their blog posts (in French) at http://www.projetsoha.org/?page_id=60.

In Haiti in particular, as a result of our March symposium on "open 
science and open access as a tool for sustainable development", a group 
of undergraduate students enrolled in the State University of Haiti have 
decided to establish an association promoting open access and cognitive 
justice. During the last three months, they made radio broadcasts, 
published blog posts and organized two training workshops, especially in 
northern Haiti where they gathered a hundred students!

I organized with and for them two sessions on Open science and cognitive 
justice at the next World Social Forum to be held in Montreal (August). 
They will present their work, their strategy and their arguments. Our 
hope is that they will thus affect students and researchers of the 
Global South who will also be there. The Association Science and Common 
Good that I chair will fund in solidarity their accommodation and meals, 
but we decided to do a fundraiser to pay for their air tickets and visa 
fees.

I therefore appeal to your generosity to make that trip real. It will 
both reward these students for their so effective engagement for open 
science, it will boost their energy and it may radiate into the network 
of the World Social Forum.

Please read the page that tells their story in more detail.

  * On our website, you'll find the paypal button that allows you to
    make your donation at limited administrative costs for
    us.http://www.scienceetbiencommun.org/?q=node/116
  * But if you prefer, we have also created a crowdfunding project on
    Generosity/Indiegogo :
    https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/help-young-oa-advocates-from-haiti
    -go-to-the-wsf on Indiegogo.


Counting on your commitment and generosity!

Florence Piron

responsible for project SOHA http://projetsoha.org

Laval University

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