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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).

We are in a moment of public reckoning about the governance of digital technologies and the future of civil society. How have ideas of openness, freedom, and decentralization served anti-corporate struggles? Where have they proved ineffective at challenging the status quo?

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).

With our partners at Wellcome Trust, Code for Science & Society is launching a new project to support open source communities of practice developing modeling tools for Climate Sensitive Infectious Diseases (CSID).