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## Project Goals ##
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**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.