AO: This brief statement from the workshop summary report highlights an important message that I think should/could regenerate STS to better grapple with and address the geopolitics of research and research infrastructures. How might, in spite of democratizing, radical or inclusive agendas, movements like Open Access, Open Data, Open Science be in fact re-entrenching existing inequalities in knowledge production? As we attempt to develop and sustain civic infrastructures including archives - digital and physical - for various publics, what do we need to pay attention to?
It was difficult to avoid the fact that even (or particularly) in the age of digital scholarship and global research, the question of uneven access to archives due to uneven research budgets will not go away.
