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 Ernest Guevarra opened the Community Call with his reflections on concepts and notions of community from his lived experienced in the Philippines as part of the call's theme of **"Tawag sa Katilingban/A Call to Community"** leading up to introducing Noam Ross.
 
-Noam started out by sharing with us when and how he got started with Open Science in general and with [rOpenSci](https://ropensci.org) specifically. He then responded to a question on why open science was important then when he was starting out and why he thought Open Science is important now in his role as Executive Director of rOpenSci and given the current geopolitical context. We then transitioned to reflecting on the current state of global health and nutrition monitoring data and systems such as the DHS, SMART, and FEWS-NET to name a few that have been impacted on by the demise of USAID and the cuts to other sources of funding. Finally, Noam closed off the call with his thoughts about the future of data and open science and what he thinks we should be looking into as a way of thinking and approach to responding to current challenges.
+Noam started out by sharing with us when and how he got started with Open Science in general and with [rOpenSci](https://ropensci.org) in particular. He then responded to a question on why open science was important then when he was starting out and why he thought Open Science is important now in his role as Executive Director of rOpenSci and given the current geopolitical context. We then transitioned to reflecting on the current state of global health and nutrition monitoring data and systems such as the DHS, SMART, and FEWS-NET to name a few that have been impacted by the demise of USAID and the cuts to other sources of funding. Finally, Noam closed off the call with his thoughts about the future of data and open science and what he thinks we should be looking into as a way of thinking and approach to responding to current challenges.
 
 ## About Noam Ross
 

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 These logbooks were also our means to receive and send out calls for help and support. I remember a call for help from our union allies after most of those in their union were summarily dismissed without cause by the factory they worked for. To them, this was clearly a way to bust their union but outwardly this was reported as them being unprofessional, always late for work, and cause a lot of problems that affect the productivity of the factory. Through the help of allied lawyers, the union filed a lawsuit against the factory and won their case in the lower courts. The factory brought the case to the court of appeals which sided with the factory owners immediately triggering a review of the case by the Supreme Court. In fear that the money and power that the factory owners have and seeming influence they had on the higher courts, our union colleagues went on hunger strike over the 3 month period that the Supreme Court was hearing this case. The calls of help we received via those logbooks was to monitor the health of our colleagues who were on hunger strike as a form of solidarity. Over a three month period, we organised ourselves to make sure that at least one of us was with them at their picket lines to check in on them and see that they were OK. The Supreme Court sided with our colleagues and the factory owners were ordered by court to give them back pay plus damages as a result of their summary dismissal without cause.
 
-These events shaped me and my consciousness and will direct me to doing more community health and public health work, working alongside communities, supporting their causes whilst they supported ours. Such work is not always safe. Those with power fear such community organisation and those involved get identified and threatened. In my last role back home in the Philippines as a community organiser and community doctor in a war-torn municipality in the southern Philippines, I faced such threats that eventually forced me to leave the country. Since then, I've never felt the same sense of community as I have. Not until I met and got to work with, and be involved in the work that our invited guest today does.
+These events shaped me and my consciousness and will direct me to doing more community health and public health work, working alongside communities, supporting their causes whilst they supported ours. Such work is not always safe. Those with power fear such community organisation and those involved get identified and threatened. In my last role back home in the Philippines as a community organiser and community doctor in a war-torn municipality in the southern Philippines, I faced such threats that eventually forced me to leave the country. Since then, I've never felt the same sense of community as I have back in the Philippines. Not until I met and got to work with, and be involved in the work that our invited guest today does.
 
 To say that it is an honour to be able to introduce to you Dr Noam Ross is an understatement.