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On March 6th, 2023, the Digital Infrastructure Incubator (DII) practice tank and program launched its second cohort. The program aims to explore “divergent tech” and I, Miliaku Nwabueze, have been recently hired as a Senior Program Manager at Code for Science & Society to lead the DII program with support from Dr. Angela Okune and Dr. Rayya El Zein.

In this post, we learn about Event Fund grantee ESMARConf and how they have used automation to try to streamline a lot of the behind-the-scenes work.

Event Fund seeks to bring attention to the often under-documented and invisibilized processes, technologies, people, and practices that undergird more inclusive and accessible data science event programming. In this post we learn about Event Fund grantee, CODATA-RDA Schools of Research Data Science, which was a ten-week-long virtual course, with the objective of teaching foundational skills in data science to Early Career Researchers (ECRs) in Low to Middle Income Countries (LMICs).

As part of the Event Fund 2022 seminar series for grantees, CS&S convened an interactive workshop with Shannon Dosemagen on developing guidelines for community participation. Shannon led the group to reflect on and begin to articulate the values and practices they want to promote in their event (and what to do if those are breached).