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The Organization of Southern Cooperation (OSC launched a digital platform the Greater South Information System (GreSIS) marking pivotal milestone in democratizing access to knowledge across the Global South.
The platform stands as a ground-breaking digital, open-access, and collaborative hub of academic and endogenous knowledge.
Developed by the Organization of Southern Cooperation (OSC), GreSIS aims to democratize access to, and the production of, knowledge in the Global South.
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It is a tool aimed at fostering collaboration and engagement among educational institutions, researchers, instructors, students, government officials, and Indigenous people’s organizations.
GreSIS is expected to grow exponentially in the immediate future to cater for hundreds of thousands of publications which will be open to subscribed individuals, institutions, and entities.
The launch was held at the Ethiopian Science Museum in Addis Ababa and was led by OSC Secretary-General Sheikh Manssour Bin Mussallam.
State Minister of the Ministry of Innovation and Technology of Ethiopia, Dr Bayissa Bedada, officials from Member States, officials of the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Ambassadors of Member States of the Organisation of Southern Cooperation (OSC), educational institutions, CSOs, development agencies, intergovernmental agencies, researchers, instructors, and students graced the launch.
OSC acts as an instrument of intellectual, technical, and financial cooperation and solidarity between its Member States as well as its Associate Members in the pursuit of a Third Way of Development – from the South, for Humanity.