Even as the discourse around OA gets more diversified globally, it remains in its nascent stages in developing countries like India. One of the major factors for this is a lack of financial structures, or in other words, a lack of a clear vision of the stakeholders of research publications – who should be paying for OA? Consequently, many geographies are unable to participate in the knowledge creation and dissemination potential of OA, and remain passive absorbers of content created by others. Even though OA is a global phenomenon, the creation and sustenance of OA structures remains largely rooted in local economies and cultural attitudes. All these factors lead to a reproduction of monopolies over knowledge systems which OA was meant to break. We consume information from knowledge hubs which have the resources and tools available to create OA structures while indigenous cultures and knowledge systems remain limited to their local environs. Such a one-way routing of knowledge even threatens their erasure over time.
We would like to engage in a discussion about the indigenous, geography-specific OA structures and solutions that have come up and how such systems are being sustained and scaled.
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EST
Laurel CD
