Launch event: A practical digital toolkit for science organizations

Completed earlier this year, the ISC project ‘Science organizations in the digital age’ supported eleven ISC Members in harnessing digital technologies and new ways of working to advance their missions.

The project produced a range of practical tools, with a particular focus on organizations with a footprint in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), but which are relevant to all science organizations.

Whether you’re looking to engage new audiences, improve internal systems or simply find out where to start, you’ll leave with ready-to-use resources relevant to you and your organization.

Date: 25 September, Thursday
Time: 12:00 – 13:00 UTC
Format: online (Zoom)

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Featured resources

Report: Harnessing “digital” for science in lower-resource settings

The report examines how science organizations can strengthen their digital capacity to achieve their missions, particularly in low- and middle-income contexts.

Toolkit: Strengthening digital maturity

This toolkit provides practical exercises, case studies, and guidance designed to help science organizations understand, assess, and strengthen their digital maturity.

Accompanying tools

• Tool #1: Digital Maturity Test
• Tool #2: User journey mapping
• Tool #3: Planning your conference

Why digital matters for science organizations

Developments in technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), offer new possibilities for science organizations to do their work and expand their impact.

For example, digitizing archives can increase access to knowledge, digital platforms can widen participation for researchers in remote areas, and digital tools can significantly improve the efficiency of workflows. 

The tools and resources to be presented at this launch event will help address some of the most common barriers towards digital maturity and equip participants with knowledge and skills to tackle them.

About the speaker

Abi Freeman is an organizational psychologist and co-founder of Brink, an innovation agency that has been leading the support of the Digital Journeys cohort alongside the ISC. For over 20 years, Abi has worked in and around tech startups, government, academia and think tanks exploring how ideas make it out into the world and how best to back and coach the people doing the hard work of innovation.

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