Authorship
Masakhane fundementally believes in participatory research as the way to move forwards in a low-resourced or under-resourced societies. As such, we've developed and use a non-traditional authorship model (in contrast to restrictive authorship models such as Harvard Medical School Authorship) when publishing our papers which aims to include all participants.
An individual would be invited to be an author if they have contributed one or more of the following artifacts or activities to the research:
Results - Contributing results for the paper based on experimentation
Data - Contributing data for model building, evaluation or other needs
Lived Experiences - Contributing lived experiences through story telling
Code - Developing software for any part of the research process
Evaluation - Providing a human evaluation of resulting models
Analysis - Providing analysis of results
Strategy - Coming up with the idea or strategies for the research
Writing - Writing and editing the research
Coordination - Coordinating and recruiting participant activities