<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Florence Piron</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Florence.Piron@scienceetbiencommun.org">Florence.Piron@scienceetbiencommun.org</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 11:52 PM<br>Subject: [commoning] Fundraiser : Help young OA and open science advocates from Haiti go to the World Social Forum<br>To: <a href="mailto:WorldSocialForum-Discuss@openspaceforum.net">WorldSocialForum-Discuss@openspaceforum.net</a>, <a href="mailto:commoning@lists.commons-institut.org">commoning@lists.commons-institut.org</a><br><br><br>
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<p> <span lang="en">Hello everyone,<br>
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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 : <a href="http://ocsdnet.org/projects/universite-laval/" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://ocsdnet.org/projects/universite-laval/" target="_blank">http://ocsdnet.org/projects/universite-laval/</a>.
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<p><span lang="en">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 <a href="http://www.projetsoha.org/?page_id=60" target="_blank">http://www.projetsoha.org/?page_id=60</a>.<br>
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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!<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Please read the page that tells their story in more detail. <br>
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<li><span lang="en">On our website,
you'll find the paypal button that allows you to make your
donation at limited administrative costs for us.</span><span lang="en"> <a href="http://www.scienceetbiencommun.org/?q=node/116" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.scienceetbiencommun.org/?q=node/116" target="_blank">http://www.scienceetbiencommun.org/?q=node/116</a>
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<li><span lang="en">But if you prefer,
we have also created a crowdfunding project on
Generosity/Indiegogo :
<a href="https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/help-young-oa-advocates-from-haiti" target="_blank">https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/help-young-oa-advocates-from-haiti</a>
-go-to-the-wsf on Indiegogo.</span></li>
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Counting on your commitment and generosity!<br>
<br>
Florence Piron<br>
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responsible for project SOHA <a href="http://projetsoha.org" target="_blank">http://projetsoha.org</a><br>
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Laval University, Québec, Canada<br>
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