[Open for Inputs] Data Science Without Borders - Working Group to bridge with The Turing Way

[malvikasharan]

Summary

The Turing has collaborated with APHRC, Africa CDC and Pathfinder Countries in a Wellcome-funded "Data Science Without Borders", announced here: https://buttondown.email/turingway/archive/celebrate-5-years-anniversary-of-the-turing-way/.

What needs to be done?

• The Turing Way will be a key project to promote open science and reproducibility practices by providing resources and community spaces
• We propose to create a working group to support this work
• We will bring this to the project leads, and invite someone to chair this WG with me as the WG secretary

Who can help?

• DSWB members @crangelsmith, @la-sts, @OwenRackham, Steph Fagen
• @KirstieJane for her awareness, input and suggestions
• Community members working in the African context, especially Kenya, Cameroon, Senegal and Ethiopia

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Updates

[malvikasharan]

We want to involve DSG activities in this work: https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/Data-Study-Group- and would love to have @JulesMarz involved in an advisory/partner capacity.

[JulesMarz]

Hello! Yup, let me know what you need 😁

[malvikasharan]

Notes from the meeting on Working Groups: There is a big overlap between capacity building and open science areas of work, so we proposed to combine and have one working group: "Open Science & Capacity Building" where specific goals around capacity building can be led by and allocated to LSHTM (technical partners) -- @malvikasharan and @crangelsmith will coordinate from the Turing's side.

We have requested APHRC to propose a co-lead/chair.

[malvikasharan]

Steve Bicko Cycu will be creating a GitHub org for DSWB where we will have a WG repository.

A few agenda points for this week's meeting:

• Discussion on Comms Platforms (using examples from Turing Way to start the demo and selection)
• Selecting and curating chapters/resources we want to bring to DSWB (in short and long terms)
• Planning for Open Science Skills building
• Identifying gaps that we want to work on (what resources we need and we don't have as a group or in Turing Way)