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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Dear Colleagues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">It is a privilege for the African Open Science Platform project to represent Africa as part of this global initiative. Please consider demonstrating your
support on behalf of your organisation, or on individual level (in personal capacity), by completing the brief online form at
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScKPAc1sFT2DbUn_1E36d_o2bvaoGeO87fNGmrYH0qNVhiJHA/viewform">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScKPAc1sFT2DbUn_1E36d_o2bvaoGeO87fNGmrYH0qNVhiJHA/viewform</a>
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Thank to those who have already signed! This is a great opportunity for Africa to make its voice count.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">See the interview with the Dan Whaley, the CEO of the “Invest in Open Infrastructure” (IOI) initiative:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h2 style="margin-top:0cm;background:#F0F0F0"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Invest in Open Infrastructure: An Interview with Dan Whaley – by
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.2pt">Roger C. Schonfeld<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/06/12/invest-open-infrastructure/">https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/06/12/invest-open-infrastructure/</a><span style="color:#1F4E79"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#454545">Infrastructure is vital for scientists, publishers, libraries, and everyone involved in scholarly research and communication and its assessment and showcasing. For several
years, I have been tracking some of the <a href="https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/11/07/strategy-integration-workflow-providers/"><span style="color:#A61D3E">major efforts to build and control portfolios, if not platforms, of scholarly research and
communication infrastructure and services</span></a> — and <a href="https://sr.ithaka.org/publications/big-deal-research-infrastructure/"><span style="color:#A61D3E">the implications for the academy</span></a>. It is a major story of mergers and acquisitions
by (and organic growth within) the likes of Elsevier, Clarivate’s Web of Science group, and Holtzbrinck’s Digital Science. At the same time, there is also a wave of effort to build various types of open source infrastructure in support of scholarly publishing
(<a href="https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2018/12/17/is-coko-the-beginnings-of-a-shared-infrastructure/"><span style="color:#A61D3E">such as CoKo</span></a>), open science (such as <a href="https://sr.ithaka.org/blog/the-center-for-open-science-alternative-to-elsevier-announces-new-preprint-services-today/"><span style="color:#A61D3E">the
Center for Open Science</span></a>), and library-based scholarly communication (such as <a href="https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/01/25/lyrasis-duraspace-merger/"><span style="color:#A61D3E">DuraSpace</span></a>). Several of the foremost enterprises
in this open source arena recently joined forces with a group of universities that direct funding to open source projects to call for greater resources to be invested in support. This <a href="https://investinopen.org/"><span style="color:#A61D3E">Invest in
Open Infrastructure </span></a>(IOI) initiative, though nascent, may be the best hope to date of some kind of common collective action. To learn more about this initiative and some of its future plans, I interviewed Dan Whaley, the CEO of open source annotation
initiative Hypothes.is, who is one of IOI’s leaders. The answers below are his, with some edits to language contributed by Kristen Ratan, Mike Roy and David Lewis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">With kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Ina<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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