A plastic surgery student being observed by a lecturer in Brazil. According to Mexican physicist Ana María Cetto, the Latin American region should rise up and support initiatives that make science and its results accessible to the general public. Copyright: ReSurge International , (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) . Ana María Cetto is the new president of UNESCO’s committee on open science Mexican physicist says scientists must fight against ‘privatisation of knowledge’ Assessment, incentive systems must be reviewed [MEXICO CITY] While quantum mechanics might be Ana María Cetto’s big passion, the Mexican physicist has devoted much of her time and energy to promoting a broader scientific endeavor – open science. This commitment paid dividends last month when Cetto, a research professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, was named president of UNESCO’s Open Science Steering Committee. For UNESCO, the idea of open science is to make information, data and scientific results more accessible and more reliably used by – and for the good of – society. However, putting it into practice is more complicated than it sounds. Like many others, Cetto has experienced the consequences of so-called “privatised science”, such as when publishing companies charge for publication of and then […]
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