Open Science: Creating a Nurturing, Inclusive Scientific Future

As life on Earth faces an increasing set of challenges - natural disasters, climate and environmental injustices, and food and water insecurities - it is imperative to have more minds, more hearts, more seats at the table to solve today’s and tomorrow’s challenges. Open science is required to respond to such challenges. For NASA, open science is a collaborative culture within the scientific community and the general public that empowers the open sharing of data, information, and knowledge to accelerate scientific and applications-based research and understanding. Open science creates a more nurturing, diverse, inclusive, and equitable science ecosystem. Open Science accelerates science by promoting a collaborative culture by the open sharing of data, information, and knowledge within the scientific community and the wider public. Open science increases participation of historically underrepresented groups by providing more equitable access to data and information. Open Science empowers communities by making data more accessible, usable, and meaningful for all as a public service

NASA’s Transform to Open Science (TOPS) mission advances the principles of open science, which aims to build trust, understanding, and lead the co-production of knowledge and new discoveries. As we start the Year of Open Science (2023), the TOPS team is developing resources and activities to support and enable user communities as they move towards open science. Join us for an innovative session in which you will: (1) learn more about NASA’s TOPS mission, and (2) mind-map a mosaic in support of a more diverse, inclusive, equitable, and accessible scientific ecosystem. During the session, we want to discuss with attendees their ideas around open science, what role science and accessibility of science data has had on their life and community, and how best to foster a respectful and collaborative environment for future scientists on a global scale.