Catalyst Project

The Catalyst Project is looking for organisations in Africa and Latin America to partner with and create a collaborative cloud infrastructure service. We want to enable community-based interactive cloud-native workflow(s) in the Biomedical, Health, and Public Health Sciences. We want to learn how this model could be extended to other global communities historically marginalised from large-scale scientific infrastructure projects.

Get Involved!

Your community can participate in different ways: using a cloud hub set up for your specific needs and collaboratively managing it; taking training on cloud usage, open leadership, and community engagement; helping us build our governance model.

If you would like to get involved, or if you have questions about the project, please contact us!

Project Outputs

Reflecting a commitment to openness shared among the project partners, we are publishing public versions of documents and other artifacts produced as the Catalyst Project proceeds. Visit our Zenodo community to explore the outputs published from the project so far.

Partner Projects

The Catalyst Project is a collaborative effort between six leading organizations in open infrastructure, community, and global leadership:

2i2c

2i2c’s mission is to make research and education more impactful, accessible, and delightful by developing, operating, and supporting infrastructure for interactive computing.

The Carpentries

The Carpentries build global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research, through training, community building, and curriculum development.

CSCCE

The Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement (CSCCE) is a training and research center to support and study the emerging field of scientific community engagement.

IOI

Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) is an initiative dedicated to improving funding and resourcing for open technologies and systems supporting research and scholarship. They do this by shedding light on challenges, conducting research, and working with decision makers to enact change.

MetaDocencia

MetaDocencia’s mission is to advance innovation with a local perspective that responsibly builds scientific and technical capacities through the co-creation of networks, learning spaces, and accessible resources for Spanish-speaking communities.

OLS

Open Life Science (OLS) is an open science capacity building organization with a mission to upskill, connect and support a distributed network of ambassadors enabling the adoption of open science principles in their local communities.

OLS hosts the Catalyst Project manager, Tajuddeen Gwadabe.