= Policy Position Paper
= Executive Summary
- Changes in science funders’ mandates
- have resulted in open access to data, software, and publications.
- Research capacity, however, is still unequally
distributed worldwide, hindering the impact of these efforts.
- To achieve the SDGs, open science policies must shift focus from products to processes and infrastructure,
- including access to open source scientific equipment. - - Conventional, black box, proprietary approaches to science hardware
- reinforce inequalities in science and slow down innovation everywhere,
- while also threatening research capacity strengthening efforts.
- Three policy recommendations to promote open science hardware for research capacity
strengthening:
- incorporating open hardware into existing open science mandates,
- incentivizing demand through technology transfer and procurement mechanisms,
- promoting the adoption of open hardware in national and regional service centers.