WINNERS OF THE LATIN AMERICAN OPEN ACCESS ESSAY COMPETITION 2020

WINNERS

LATIN AMERICAN OPEN ACCESS ESSAY COMPETITION 2020

Open with Purpose: Taking Actions to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion

The Open Access 2020 week was held with the theme "Openness with Purpose", which provided the appropriate framework for AmeliCA, UNESCO, Redalyc and CLACSO to organize the Latin American Open Access Essay Competition 2020 with the theme "Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion", aimed at young Latin American researchers and students. The competition rules were published on September 30, 2020 and essays were received until December 28, 2020.

Consult the book with the winning essays of the First Latin American Open Access Competition “Open with Purpose: Taking Actions to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion”

Organized by UNESO, UAEMéx, AmeliCa, CLACSO and Redalyc

Becerril-García, A., & Aguado López, E. (Coords.). (2022). Abrir con propósito. Emprender acciones para construir equidad e inclusión estructurales: Una mirada de la juventud latinoamericana. Ensayos del primer concurso latinoamericano sobre Acceso Abierto 2020 (Primera edición). Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México.

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CONTESTANTS

Works

Countries

56%

Urdergraduate students

44%

Graduate students

CONTESTANTS BY COUNTRY

WINNERS BY CATEGORY

Students, academics, and Open Access

First place

Marcela Torres Heredia

Colombia

Doctoral student at the Universidad de Viena (Austria)

Essay title: De las ausencias a las ecologías de los saberes: el caso del sistema de comunicación académico

Second place

Alan Francisco Colín Arce

Mexico

Undergraduate student at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (Mexico)

Essay title: La falta de alfabetización informacional como barrera al Acceso Abierto en estudiantes y académicos

Open Access to information at universities

First place

Joaquín Rodrigo Yrivarren Espinoza

Peru

Doctoral student at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (Spain)

Essay title: Haciendo público el conocimiento: la invención de ALICIA

Public and private science: reflections on equity and participation

First place

Juan García Hernández

Mexico

Undergraduate student at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Mexico)

Essay title: Aproximaciones a una ciencia en común, a partir del movimiento de Acceso Abierto

Second place

Patricia Isabel Catalán Durán

Colombia

Undergraduate student at the Universidad del Atlántico (Colombia)

Essay title: El Acceso Abierto, una apuesta a un modelo participativo contrahegemónico

Open Access policies at universities

First place

Emiro Alfonzo Colina Medina

Venezuela

Master's student at the Universidad Nacional Experimental Francisco de Miranda (Venezuela)

Essay title: Seguridad ciudadana y Acceso Abierto: UNES ruta democrática en políticas de investigación

Second place

Luis Ernesto Paz Enrique

Cuba

Doctoral student at the Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas (Cuba)

Essay title: Acceso Abierto en Latinoamérica: iniciativas y políticas científicas universitarias para su potenciación

Third place

Juan Alfonso Cruz Vázquez

Mexico

Master's student at the Universidad de Guadalajara (Mexico)

Essay title: Ethos académico y ciencia abierta en el siglo XXI: hacia la construcción de subjetividades científicas inclusivas mediante la diplomacia y la democratización del conocimiento

Access to information and inclusion to vulnerable groups

First place

Esther Bravo Govea

Mexico

Master's student at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico)

Essay title: El Acceso Abierto a la información e inclusión de grupos indígenas desde la perspectiva de los bienes comunes

Second place

Manuel David Castillo Hoyos

Colombia

Undergraduate student at the Universidad ICESI (Colombia)

Essay title: Cuando el eufemismo se vuelve insulto: una reflexión sobre el Acceso Abierto a la ciencia en América Latina

Third place

Noél Isaí Reyes Escobar

Guatemala

Undergraduate student at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Centro Universitario de Occidente (Guatemala)

Essay title: Acceso Abierto a la información como un derecho humano fundamental y su garantía y protección para grupos vulnerables en situación de exclusión en la configuración de políticas públicas de Acceso Abierto a la información

Samara Pereira Gonzaga dos Santos

Brazil

Undergraduate student at the Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz (Brazil)

Essay title: E-acessibilidade: mudanças no acesso à informação para inclusão de pessoas com deficiência visual no Brasil

* The category "The impact of Open Access during the COVID-19 health emergency", as well as some of the first places in other categories were declared void, by decision of the members of the contest's Evaluation Committee, once they had evaluated the essays submitted.

AWARD CEREMONY

Date: May 28th

Time: 9:00 hr (CST), 16:00 hr (CGT)

UNESCO, CLACSO and the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico through Redalyc and AmeliCA, invite you to participate in the virtual winning ceremony of the Latin American Open Access Essay Competition 2020, where the winners in each of the six categories of the contest will be recognized.

The broadcast will take place on May 28, 2021 at 9:00 hr (CST), 16:00 hr (CET).

PROGRAM

Moderator
Dr. Arianna Becerril García. Professor-researcher UAEM. Chair of AmeliCA

1. Welcome message
Dr. Marielza Oliveira
Director for Partnerships and Operational Programme Monitoring, CI sector. UNESCO

Dr. Karina Batthyány
Executive Secretariat. CLACSO

Mgtr. Lorena Pilloni
Professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Representative of the Evaluation Committee

2. Competition results. Mention of the winners by category
Dr. Arianna Becerril García. Professor-researcher UAEM. Chair of AmeliCA

3. Participation of the winners

4. Closing statement
Dr. Eduardo Aguado López
Professor-researcher UAEM. Managing director of Redalyc

The essays that have been selected by the Evaluation Committee and that occupy one of the first three places in each thematic category will be published in a book edited by the organizing institutions on the second semester of the current year.

EVALUATION COMMITTEE

Alejandro Macedo García
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Mexico
Mexico