national perspective can also be diverse --- Katharina, if I may come in to your unsettling (justifiable) feeling in writing about a country that is not yours and touch on the reflection here: You have the right not to be feeling your best writing about a different country than yours, but have you thought about the perception of people of the same background and the same field of expertise, would they still have the same opinion? unlikely it is. and this bring in my reflection to this point, which is basically that the biggest challenge is not about only having open science, rather than being open to science, us as scientists in the first place. We always think of credits, ownership, names on publications for obvious reasons, but we are not always open for others to use our science or us to bring other's science and debate it and challenge it. If we can't get there, join language is difficult to achieve.

Source author: Muna Zaqsaw zaqsaw.muna89@gmail.com