Along with Dr. Luís Falcón, leader of the GNUHealth (project adopted by the United Nations University and backed up by the Digital Public Good Alliance), I have been tasked to co-edit a special number of the African Journal of Science and Humanities Research devoted to One Health and Open Technologies, with the goal to create a compendium of solutions to major health issues, focusing on the most effective, safe, sustainable and easily implementable ones.

The objective is to curate and publish an open repository of viable ways to tackle major health issues affecting the African continent, its inhabitants and beyond, ensuring a way for humanity to minimize the damage made to the environment, the rest of the ecosystems and itself. Along with the already confirmed roster of authors contributing to the issue, we are extremely proud to count on Alexandra Elbakyan, founder of Sci-Hub, the most controversial project in modern science whose goal is to provide unrestricted access to all scientific knowledge.

As stated by the World Health Organization, One Health is an approach calling for "the collaborative efforts of multiple disciplines working locally, nationally, and globally, to attain optimal health for people, animals and our environment". Open Technologies are, on the other hand, and in general terms, software, hardware and human capital development solutions, often created in a collaborative public manner, released on permissive licenses to grant individuals and collectives the rights to use, study, change, manage and redistribute the code, blueprints, and techniques to anyone.

The African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Research (ISSN: 2689-5129) is an international double-blind peer-reviewed open-access journal, published monthly online by African-British Journals, an international open-access journal platform based in Lagos, Nigeria, providing the best research service and publication with the distinct objective of discovering cutting-edge advancement in knowledge.

No deadline for submissions has been yet fixed. The call is now open, and a crowd-funding campaign will be soon launched to cover all expenses involved in publication and dissemination to the broader public and relevant keyholders of the special issue, its papers, and the projects and solutions covered within it, to maximize the impact of the open repository and ensure the usefulness of this initiative.