{"id":45,"date":"2017-08-24T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knowledgegap.org\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2020-08-20T17:54:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T17:54:21","slug":"our-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/knowledgegap.org\/index.php\/our-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Research Team<\/span><\/h2>\n

Led by Leslie Chan, the team is a diverse group of researchers and students who are dedicated to enabling open access networks and knowledge sharing. The research we are embarking requires a variety of perspectives and skill sets that is provided by our diverse team. Our collaborative working environment allows us to compare and draw parallels between mapping and financial data while understanding their role within the publishing industry. The core research team is listed b<\/span>elow:<\/span><\/p>\n

Leslie Chan\"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

Les<\/span>lie Chan is the Research Coordinator and Principal Investigator of the OCSDNetwork. He is the Associate Director of the Centre for Critical Development Studies (CCDS) at the University of Toronto Scarborough, where he teaches courses on knowledge and media for development. Leslie has a long standing research interest in the role of knowledge production and dissemination in development, and in particular the role of Open Access (OA) in addressing the imbalance in the global knowledge flow and the dominance of certain ways of legitimizing knowledge. Since 2000, Leslie has served as the director of a South-North collaborative project known as Bioline International, a platform that provides OA for over 30 research journals from the global South. Leslie has been active in the experimentation and implementation of scholarly communication initiatives of varying scales around the world.<\/p>\n

Denisse Albornoz<\/strong>\"\"<\/p>\n

Denisse is a Research Associate for the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network (OCSDNet). She is an International Development and Sociology graduate from the University of Toronto, and is interested in inclusive and transgressive approaches to knowledge construction and dissemination. In Toronto, she has facilitated inclusive education programs, exploring the use of art or media in alternative pedagogies and research practices with youth. She has also worked with the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, mapping change-making practices at the intersections of new media, art and activism in South Asia. At OCSDNet, she is researching power and inequality in discourse construction about Open Science.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alejandro Posada<\/strong>\"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alejandro Posada is a Research Associate with the OCSDNet, based in Toronto. He graduated from the International Development and Economics programs at the University of Toronto Scarborough and is interested in the political economy and financialization of the publishing industry as well as the synergies between open science and traditional knowledge systems in agriculture. He previously worked with the Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems in Chennai, assessing the economic viability of revitalizing traditional knowledge in agriculture as well as researching the political ecology of India\u2019s agricultural micro-insurance industry. Alejandro is a Colombian citizen who has lived in seven different countries including Canada, India, Costa Rica, Russia, England, and Venezuela. During his time in Canada, he has been involved with various community organizations such as the Stop Community Food Centre, WUSC Student Refugee Program, and Frontier College. Follow him on Twitter at @pal3jo<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Angela Okune\"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

Angela Okune is a PhD student at the University of California Irvine\u2019s Department of Anthropology with an emphasis on Feminist Studies and Science and Technology Studies (STS). She works on questions of expertise, identity, and technology & development in Africa. She is a Network Coordinator for the Open & Collaborative Science in Development Network (www.ocsdnet.org)<\/a>\u00a0and Luce Graduate Fellow with the Critical Investigations of Humanitarianism in Africa Blog (www.cihablog.com).<\/a>\u00a0Angela is the recipient of a 2016 Graduate Research Fellowship from the\u00a0National Science Foundation. From 2010 – 2015, as a co-founder of the research department at iHub, Nairobi\u2019s innovation hub for the tech community, Angela provided strategic guidance for the growth of tech research in Kenya. Her previous work includes directing the pioneering Umati project, monitoring dangerous speech online in Kenya<\/a>; assessing mobile usage patterns at the Kenyan base of the pyramid<\/a>; and developing a framework to test the viability of crowdsourcing during elections<\/a>. Learn more at angelaokune.me<\/a>\u00a0or follow her on Twitter,\u00a0@honoluluskye<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Saman Goudarzi\"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saman Goudarzi is an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto Scarborough completing a degree in International Development Studies and Geography. A cartographer and researcher, her interests lie at the intersection of technology, data and labour. She is currently an intern at the Centre for Internet and Society, researching platform actors in various Indian sectors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maggie Huang<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Maggie Huang is a graduate of UofT\u2019s\u00a0International Development Studies Co-op program with a double minor in Economics and Political Science. She interned, and later returned as consultant\u00a0with policy research\u00a0organisation,\u00a0Centre for Internet and Society (India),\u00a0as\u00a0part of\u00a0their Access to Knowledge program.\u00a0She primarily studied India\u2019s copyright management regime, particularly\u00a0how it impacted content and royalties flows in the digital music ecosystem; but became keenly interested in the political economy of intellectual property and its impact on access to\u00a0information and culture \u2014 a key tenet of her final year thesis. At CIS, she also engaged in\u00a0knowledge management activities\u00a0to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the organisation\u2019s\u00a0research and policy influencing objectives. As a highly involved student, she received the UTSC Letter Award and the Gordon Cressy Leadership Award for, amongst other things, her involvement with the annual\u00a0International\u00a0Development\u00a0Conference. Driven by\u00a0the\u00a0potential\u00a0for interdisciplinary knowledge transfer, she helped convene\u00a0forums\u00a0for\u00a0academics, practitioners, policy makers, and students; and remains passionate about\u00a0creating spaces for learning, while also\u00a0critically understanding the systems and infrastructures which facilitate the production,\u00a0dissemination, and application of information and knowledge.<\/p>\n

George Chen<\/strong><\/p>\n

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George Chen is a graduate of the University of Toronto’s<\/span> Management and International Business program with a stream in Economics. He is interested in the economics of development as well as the drivers of academic discourse. George had worked as a research assistant for the Centre for Critical Development Studies. He is currently pursuing a law degree at Harvard Law School.<\/p>\n

Tasneem Mewa\"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tasneem Mewa is an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto pursuing an Honours Bachelor of Arts in International Development Studies. She is interested in critiquing neoclassical economic theory and deconstructing conventional notions of spatiality. In addition to her research with the Centre for Critical Development Studies, she currently works as a Senior Editor for the student run development journal, The Undercurrent<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Join us <\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Whether you\u2019re a first-year undergraduate student or in grad school, we are always looking to welcome new members. Please contact us if you are interested in joining our team.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Research Team Led by Leslie Chan, the team is a diverse group of researchers and students who are dedicated to enabling open access networks and knowledge sharing. The research we are embarking requires a variety of perspectives and skill sets that is provided by our diverse team. Our collaborative working environment allows us to compare and draw parallels between mapping and financial data while understanding their role within the publishing industry. The core research team is listed below: LeslieRead More→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knowledgegap.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knowledgegap.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knowledgegap.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowledgegap.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowledgegap.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/knowledgegap.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749,"href":"https:\/\/knowledgegap.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knowledgegap.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}