@juliusmeier and I from the Danish Energy Agency propose a breakout group on the topic: How to promote and generate transparency in modelling activities when cooperating with governments?
Our idea would be to start by presenting and reporting on our experiences at the Centre for Global Cooperation at the Danish Energy Agency in working with national governments around the world. In our work we repeatedly face the issue that there is a tension between building up a trusting relationship with partners and pushing for open science practices related to models and data.
Starting from our experiences we would like to collect experiences from other energy modellers when working with governments and public institutions and discuss and collect potential strategies and approaches on how to facilitate the creation of a trusting relationship while promoting the adoption of open science principles and the creation of transparency.
Hi @willu47,
I think the latter would be what we want to aim for, a document of best practices that collects identifies issues and strategies and approaches on how to create trust while on promoting open science principles.
But of course if someone wants to pick this up and create a publication out of it this could also be discussed. But I guess that depends on the level of participation and the amount information collected.
Also download your own local copy — the URL above may well expire given current trends within the US federal government.
The suggestion (on page 15) to license the input data under the same software license as the codebase (Apache‑2.0) should be revisited. I think CC‑BY‑4.0 would make a better choice.
The feature that caught my attention was the social aspect being promoted, that all contributors should have equal status.
PS: My thoughts are with the EIA staff and leadership under the current general onslaught from the White House and DOGE on US public agencies, academia, and civil society.