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Digital Literacy Organizations¶
Global & North America¶
The Carpentries - teaches foundational coding and data science skills to researchers worldwide.
Code.org - nonprofit providing free, open-source computer science curriculum for K-12 students worldwide.
EdX - massive open online course (MOOC) provider.
EveryoneOn - mission is to unlock opportunity by connecting families in underserved communities to affordable internet service and computers, and delivering digital skills trainings.
- ConnectHomeUSA - is a movement to bridge the digital divide for HUD-assisted housing residents in the United States under the leadership of national nonprofit EveryoneOn.
Girls Who Code - nonprofit with 500K+ alums, closing the gender gap in technology through education programs.
Global Digital Literacy Council - has dedicated more than 15 years of hard work to the creation and maintenance of worldwide standards in digital literacy.
Khan Academy - free online education platform offering courses in math, science, computing, and more since 2006.
Microsoft TEALS - brings computer science education to 500+ high schools through industry volunteers.
Mozilla Foundation - promotes web literacy, digital citizenship, and internet health through education programs.
National Digital Equity Center a 501c3 non-profit, is a nationally recognized organization with a mission to close the digital divide across the United States.
National Digital Inclusion Allaince - advances digital equity by supporting community programs and equipping policymakers to act.
Net Literacy - student-led nonprofit teaching digital literacy skills
NIST Research Data Framework - framework for managing research data lifecycle
Open Educational Resources Commons - library of freely accessible teaching materials
Project Pythia is the education working group for Pangeo and is an educational resource for the entire geoscience community.
Research Bazaar - is a worldwide festival promoting the digital literacy emerging at the centre of modern research.
TechBoomers - is an education and discovery website that provides free tutorials of popular websites and Internet-based services in a manner that is accessible to older adults and other digital technology newcomers.
Wikimedia Education Program - teaches digital literacy and critical thinking through Wikipedia editing and contribution.
Africa¶
Asante Africa Foundation - provides digital literacy and employability training in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.
DEAN (Unleashing Potential) - African digital skills development and educational technology programs.
Develop Africa - supports education and technology access in West Africa for underserved communities.
Latin America¶
Conecta Empleo - Telefónica Foundation's digital employability program across 8 Latin American countries.
Guayerd - EdTech organization providing digital literacy for vulnerable populations in Latin America.
#TodasConectadas - UN Women partnership for women's digital literacy in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Asia & Southeast Asia¶
ASEAN Foundation Digital Literacy Program - regional Train-of-Trainers program for digital literacy across Southeast Asia.
Indonesia Siberkreasi - national digital literacy movement promoting safe and productive internet use.
The Asia Foundation Go Digital ASEAN - trained 225K+ youth in digital skills across Southeast Asia.
Materials¶
Handbooks & Guides¶
The Turing Way - comprehensive handbook for reproducible, ethical, and collaborative data science.
Teach Together - evidence-based teaching guide by Greg Wilson
Software Carpentry Lessons - open lessons teaching foundational coding and version control skills.
Data Carpentry Curricula - domain-specific open lessons for data organization, analysis, and visualization.
FOSTER Plus - open science training modules covering reproducibility, open data, and scholarly communication.
Open Textbooks & Interactive Books¶
DigitalLearn - free online courses for essential digital skills
R for Data Science - interactive web book by Hadley Wickham teaching data science with R and the tidyverse.
OER Commons Textbooks - library of open educational textbooks across all disciplines.
Best Practices & Principles¶
FAIR Principles - guidelines for making data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.
CARE Principles - Indigenous data governance principles for Collective benefit, Authority, Responsibility, and Ethics.
TRUST Principles - principles for digital repositories: Transparency, Responsibility, User focus, Sustainability, and Technology.
Courses¶
Open Science Training¶
TOPS Open Science 101 - NASA's free open science certification course
FOSTER Plus Training - comprehensive open science training modules covering all aspects of open research.
Carpentries Workshops¶
Software Carpentry Workshops - hands-on coding workshops teaching Unix shell, version control with Git, and programming.
Data Carpentry Workshops - domain-specific workshops for researchers learning data organization and analysis.
Library Carpentry Workshops - software and data skills training for people working in library and information-related roles.
University Courses & OpenCourseWare¶
UC Berkeley Data Science Courses - open data science courses from UC Berkeley's Division of Data Sciences.
MIT OpenCourseWare Data Science - free MIT course materials covering statistics, machine learning, and computational methods.
Stanford Online Data Science - Stanford's online data science programs and courses.
MOOCs & Online Learning¶
EdX Open Science Courses - massive open online courses on open science practices and principles.
Coursera Data Science Specializations - data science courses from leading universities and companies.
Research Data Management¶
NASA Earthdata Training - tutorials and webinars on accessing and using NASA Earth observation data.
RDA Training Materials - Research Data Alliance resources for data management and sharing.
Galaxy Training Network - hands-on tutorials for data-intensive biomedical research using Galaxy platform.
Scientific Programming & Tools¶
pyOpenSci Tutorials - Python tutorials and best practices for open, reproducible scientific software.
rOpenSci Training - R packages and training materials for data access, visualization, and reproducibility.
Project Pythia Tutorials - interactive learning materials for Python-based geoscience workflows and visualization.
Amazing Open Scientists & Educators¶
Scientific Computing & Software¶
Ryan Abernathey - Former Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Science at Columbia, co-founder of Pangeo, now CEO of Earthmover
Ralf Gommers - NumPy and SciPy Steering Council Chair, Director of Quansight Labs, leading scientific Python development.
Andy Terrel - NumFOCUS President, co-creator of Dask, Conda, and SymPy for scientific computing.
Jupyter & Interactive Computing¶
Fernando Pérez - Associate Professor Statistics at UC Berkeley. Co-creator of Project Jupyter
Chris Holdgraf - Executive Director of 2i2c, Jupyter Executive Council member, advancing interactive computing infrastructure.
Yuvi Panda - 2i2c technical lead, JupyterHub core developer, MyBinder.org operator.
Global South & Diversity Leaders¶
Laura Ación - CONICET Argentina researcher, MetaDocencia founder, champion of Spanish-speaking open science education.
Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou - Cameroon-based founder of Mboalab, advancing open science and hardware in Africa.
Lorena A. Barba - GW Open Source Program Office Director, NumFOCUS Board Chair, advocate for open engineering education.
Diversity & Inclusion Champions¶
Carla E. Brodley - Northeastern University Dean of Inclusive Computing, leading $70M initiative to diversify computer science.
Kari L. Jordan - The Carpentries Executive Director, advancing equity in computational education worldwide.
Kirstie Whitaker - Turing Institute Programme Lead, founder of The Turing Way for reproducible research.
Research Software Sustainability¶
Arfon Smith - Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS), co-author of Software Citation Principles.
Kyle Niemeyer - Oregon State Associate Professor, JOSS Associate Editor-in-Chief, research software sustainability advocate.
Open Source Educators¶
Julia Silge - Posit data scientist, creator of tidytext and vetiver R packages, author and educator.
Isabelle Guyon - ChaLearn founder, CodaLab creator, pioneering machine learning competitions and open challenges.
Science & Technology Policy¶
Sheila Jasanoff - Harvard Kennedy School professor, 2022 Holberg Prize laureate, pioneer in science and technology studies.
Workflows & Data Science¶
İlkay Altıntaş - is the Chief Data Science Officer and the Founding Director of the Workflows for Data Science (WorDS) Center of Excellence and WIFIRE Lab at the San Diego Supercomputer Center
Rachana Ananthakrishnan Executive Director at University of Chicago of Globus
Ewa Deelman - Research Professor and Research Director USC Information Sciences Institute, lead of the Pegasus workflow
Open Science Advocates¶
Elizabeth Iorns: Founder of the Science Exchange
Fiona Murphy - consultant and advocate for open research and data sharing
Cameron Neylon - Professor of Research Education, Advocacy Director for the Public Library of Science (PLOS)
Brian Nosek - Professor of Psychology at University of Virginia, founder of the Center for Open Science
Geospatial & Earth Science¶
Samapriya Roy - is a Google Developer Expert and geoinformatics guru on GEE. He maintains a large community catalog of scientific data Awesome GEE Community Catalog - a meta list of open science datasets in GEE.
Qiusheng Wu - Qiusheng is an associate professor at University of Tennessee internationally known geoinformatics scholar who works in Python and Google's Earth Engine (GEE) and GEE Map software
Data Science & Programming Education¶
Tracy Teal - Open Source Program Director at Posit (formerly RStudio). Formerly Executive Director of Dryad, The Carpentries and co-founder of Data Carpentry.
Hadley Wickham - Developer of several popular R packages including the TidyVerse.
Jason J. Williams - is Assistant Director, Diversity and Research Readiness at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory DNA Learning Center.
Greg Wilson - Co-founder of Software Carpentry and first Executive Director