Using badges to highlight and reward open science practices

Unlike prizes, badges can be earned by anyone. Open science needs to celebrate when scientists change their practices to open. Take a look Open Science badges are coming….

How can we accelerate open science culture change from the ground up in academia?

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Etienne of curatescience.org started with badges, and still do give badges. :slight_smile:

That’s bottom-up.

Now, he and several friends, including us from the indonesian open science team (@Dasapta_Erwin_Irawan etc.) are also working top-down by advocating for open science legislations in our respective countries.

Due to a variety of reasons, we haven’t really made progress. Soon, we will. :slight_smile:

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