Is your December snowy like ours? ☃️ In this issue, we looked back what we achieved for this year and brought you one more dataset and an webinar event that you may add to your new year calendar. See you in 2024!
Highlights
🎊 End-of-year wrap up
Since our launch in August, we are happy and grateful to achieve these numbers together with you:
- developed and released 7 datasets
- started a free online academy with 100+ participants globally
- expanded our Element chat to 95 people.
- reached 1.2K unique visitors from 71 countries on openwashdata.org
Moreover, the academy has offered 300-page public learning materials tailored for WASH and invested 15+ hours in 1-on-1 coding support with students. When not sitting in the office, the openwashdata team also participated in Stockholm World Water Week 2023 and co-hosted a side event at the UNC Water and Health Conference.
Thanks to everyone in the openwashdata community for making this possible and we keep growing together. Stay tuned for new events and activities coming out in 2024!
📊 New dataset on African universities is released!
Higher education is important to train new researchers and professionals in WASH. However, an openly accessible database focusing on African universities is missing. The data package universityrankingafrica is here to fill the gap. Check out this new dataset with the following links:
Website: https://openwashdata.github.io/universityrankingafrica
GitHub: https://github.com/openwashdata/universityrankingafrica
openwashdata Webinar: A data sharing workflow that may please the publishers
Are you wondering why anyone should be interested in your data beyond your project? Do you want to know how to satisfy publisher policies for sharing your data in the process of submitting your scientific article? In this joint webinar with the Public Library of Science (PLOS) we will introduce you to a workflow for sharing data openly. You will learn about the importance of open data and the tangible benefits of sharing.
Contributor of the Month
Which attributes of an African university correlate with its performance in an international ranking? MSc Student Samuel Sigrist from Global Health Engineering Group at ETH Zürich collects data to research this question and publishes the data package universityrankingafrica at openwashdata. 👏 Thank you for this collaboration!
Get Involved
We truly believe that openwashdata project prospers when we have YOU work together and promote open science and data practice! No matter what background you are from, we come up with some ways for you to get involved:
- Join our chatroom to meet people!
- Share your WASH data with us
- Spread the word. Forward this email.
- Got more ideas? Leave us a message on Matrix to collaborate!