Digital summaries describing the work done by the individuals contributing to research.
- Service Design - Volunteer Management - Project Direction - Knowledge Creation -
Digital marketplace to discover and connect with university technology transfer (commercialization), licensable scholarly resources, and other intellectual property.
- Project Direction - Technical Project Management - Public Speaking and Writing - Business Models -
Creating a movement to address the world's biggest challenges through increased digital metadata richness for scholarly outputs.
- Project Direction - Building Community - Volunteer Management - Public Speaking and Writing -
The EDI Advisory Group announced the launch of the Onboarding initiative, after a successful pilot program that paired four newcomers with four Work Stream Guides. Next, the team shared results from an EDI survey this year, which revealed that more than 50% of respondents were not as involved in GA4GH as they wanted to be. These individuals felt that a lack of time and support impeded their ability to engage with the community.
During the GA4GH 9th Plenary meeting in September 2021, I discussed the current progress of the GA4GH Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group, a group that I co-chair. Through deep exploration using an approach to build an “intentional community”, the volunteer group has embarked on three overarching projects: Onboarding Tactics, Increasing Participation Levels, and Building Equity by Design into our standards. This talk describes the progress to date, and encourages the community to get involved and contribute to EDI efforts to effect change.