---------- ## Project Goals ## ---------- **Build a Collaborative Community:** - **Interview experts and stakeholders:** Conduct structured interviews to assess feasibility of project goals. - **Establish an advisory panel:** Researchers, community leaders, and advocates to provide constructive feedback toward COS’s development of a strategic plan. - **Create an information commons:** Gather and share information in a common repository stored on the OSF. **Explore Pilot Project Possibilities:** *Pilot opportunities will be examined from the list below along with other potential opportunities identified during the planning phase.* - **Statistical collaborations:** Prototype integrated support for OSF transparency and reproducibility training with an active statistical consulting service development in Africa. - **COS Ambassadors:** Prototype direct training and train-the-trainers of ambassadors that would provide on-site consulting support for COS services at an African university. - **Project-based training & support:** Identify and support an Africa-based project, and provide training and support services for the project participants. - **Direct training:** Send a COS staff member to conduct training and education for open and transparent research practices at an Africa research site. - **Support U.S.-based project in Africa:** Conduct direct training of U.S. staff with established projects in Africa. - **OSF off-line:** Explore and prototype possibilities for using OSF for project management in environments with unreliable Internet access, e.g., desktop syncing tools.