What's at Stake: A Multipolar Open Science Landscape Open Science is playing an increasingly important role in enabling global scientific collaboration. As science policy gains strategic weight in international relations, initiatives like China's International Cooperation in Open Science, launched at the 2024 G20 Summit[1], reflect a growing ambition to contribute to a more inclusive and sovereign global approach to openness. With investments in regional capacity-building, national cloud platfor...

Background: Researchers can leverage AI algorithms to analyze vast amounts of data quickly and efficiently. Moreover, AI tools are being used to generate content, write code, resolve accessibility issues, reconfigure writing processes and detect plagiarism. All this is reshaping researcher practice and culture in how they communicate, how they share, how they view infrastructure. What's at stake: Open Science and Open Scholarly Communication cannot and should not progress unless i...