Iryna Kuchma, Manager of the EIFL Open Access Programme, will attend two conferences organized under the umbrella of the 2nd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access. 

The summit comprises three events with a common goal, namely to develop capacity for the advancement of an inclusive and equitable open access paradigm. The two conferences that Kuchma will attend are: 

• The Open Science in the South 2024 ‘African scientific publishing we want’, conference, 9 - 11 December. The event will focus on the theme of African scientific publishing. EIFL is contributing to a workshop run by Susan Veldsman and Ina Smith from the Academy of Science of South Africa on Sustaining ethical Open Access: strengthening Diamond Open Access journals, mitigating predatory threats and exploring AI in scholarly publishing (on 11 December). 
• Conference on Diamond Open access , from 11 - 13 December. The theme is ‘Diamond open access: centering social justice in scholarly communication to advance research as a public good’.