Open Science Advocacy

• - Promote open science policies, tools, and practices focused on the Global South and beyond.
• - Organize national and regional workshops on:
• - Open data
• - Open peer review
• - Open access
• - Develop multilingual training resources for inclusivity and accessibility.
• - Engage in policy dialogues with universities, funders, and governments.

Building Open Infrastructure

• - Bridge the digital divide by promoting global open infrastructure tools (e.g., ORCID, DataCite, Crossref, DOAJ).
• - Help institutions adopt persistent identifiers (PIDs).
• - Support repositories, metadata standards, and open research workflows.
• - Advocate for local ownership and system interoperability.
• - Conduct national and regional workshops on open data, peer review, and open access.
• - Develop multilingual training to make open science inclusive and accessible.
• - Engage in policy dialogues with universities, funders, and governments.

Open GLAMs & Cultural Heritage

• - Partnering with museums, libraries, and archives in Pakistan.
• - Digitizing and releasing cultural heritage under open licenses (CC0, CC BY-SA).
• - Training cultural professionals in digital openness.
• - Linking heritage resources with open education and research projects.
• - Promoting accessible, inclusive, and preserved historical content.

ORCID Community of Practice in Pakistan

• - As a recipient of the ORCID Global Participation Fund, XploreOpen is building a robust national community that.
• - Trains institutional leaders, researchers, and librarians
• - Promotes open researcher identity adoption
• - Bridges local and global research through interoperable infrastructures

DataCite Consortium of Pakistan

• - Also, as a recipient of the DataCite Global Activity Fund, XploreOpen is establishing a national
• - Consortium of DataCite that:
• - Trains institutional leaders, researchers, and librarians
• - Promotes DataCite PIDs in the region