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Recent studies have established that the university of tomorrow will be largely virtual (Siemen et al, 2015). Moreover, the covid-19 pandemic confirms this hypothesis, if it were necessary. Moreover, all levels of education are going virtual. This trend must be linked both to the constraints imposed by certain phenomena, but also to the democratization of access to technology and its use in the context of the circulation of knowledge. This situation immediately has several consequences: 1 / the first is a direct connection between a set of researchers and therefore universities; 2 / the result is the intensification of exchanges between researchers, promoting a form of virtual socialization; 3 / the possibility of an immediate popularization of the scientific productions of universities. These changes have upset the mechanisms of scientific cooperation between universities, which are undergoing growing acceleration thanks to academic social networks. The latter have become issues in the construction of knowledge societies, very different from traditional models in this area (Proulx, 2020). The elimination of constraints linked to distance in particular results in the fact that these communities are constructed in a paradoxical way: because it is not necessarily the universities and researchers of the same country who come together, but preferably institutions of higher education in countries far removed from each other. In Haiti, this paradox can also be explained, among other causes, by the weak impregnation of universities with technological tools and limited knowledge of academic social networks. The issue of exchanges has indeed become the main characteristic of these digital tools. It is not so much the availability of knowledge already produced (even if it happens that it is), but the possibility, through exchanges, to develop research projects and participate in collaborative work. These networks are also becoming an alternative to excessive marketing, highlighting a philanthropic dimension by placing knowledge sharing in the category of donation and not of commerce. Ferrary (2001) rightly notes that: “From a theoretical point of view, each institution is dominated by a mode of exchange: the market through market transactions, organizations through power relations, and social networks through donation". It is understandable that the universities of the South, generally facing problems of means of setting up large scientific projects, largely favor scientific social networks for the construction of new projects. In other words, academic social networks have become places of privileged sharing of knowledge and experience, both in their gestational form but also in their finalized form (Cassier, 1998). Researchers are constantly in contact with the doubt surrounding the process of building knowledge, both through the questions addressed to colleagues with whom they are in contact but also in relation to the possibility of a constant development of knowledge. There is here a whole epistemology of scientific production via academic social networks to be developed (Ferrary, 2001). The experience conducted to date by Quisqueya University, in particular on ResearcheGate, is part of an intelligent positioning of the opportunities offered by academic social networks both in terms of connection and visibility (Bester, 2014) . For example, one of the projects carried by Qusiqueya University on this platform, namely "Measuring of scientific productivity of researchers at Quisqueya University on ResearchGate"[ https://www.researchgate.net/project/Measuring-of-scientific-productivity-of-researchers-at-Quisqueya-University-on-ResearchGate ], brought together no less than twenty foreign colleagues, all from different countries and universities, feeding this project with their publications and carrying out regular scientific updates. In addition, the publication of monthly reports on the performance of UniQ researchers registered on ResearchGate seems to attract the curiosity of certain members of the scientific community registered on this platform. These reports (Alexis et al, 2020; Emmanuel et al, 2020; St-Louis et al, 2020; Paul et al, 2020a; Apply et al, 2020; Noncent et al, 2020; Charles et al, 2020; Joseph et al. , 2020, Paul et al, 2020b) have given rise to very enriching discussions on ResearchGate, and are at the origin of the establishment of new scientific collaborations, particularly South-South. Elsheikh (2020) examined the relevance of such an approach with a view to producing a critical analysis, which could be the co-founder of a new indicator capable of leading the scientific community to a ranking of universities in the South. While constructing a new variable in the conceptualization of South-South cooperation, this analysis seems to broaden the basis of the monthly report on the scientific productivity of researchers produced by Quisqueya University to go towards what the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE ) of France considers “academic diplomacy”. Indeed, in the report entitled “A scientific diplomacy for France”, the MAE (2013) defines scientific diplomacy as “the use and application of scientific cooperation to help establish links and strengthen relations between companies, especially in areas where there might not be other means of approach at the official level ”. The field of measuring scientific productivity in the South, as in the North, using bliometric and altmetric indicators generated by academic networks is part of this need. However, if in Haiti the Quisqueya University takes a stand on these issues, it is clear that a lot of efforts still need to be done, first at the level of the University itself. Indeed the number of members registered on Researchgate for example (90) is lower than the number of professors and researchers constituting the teaching staff. Then, apart from the Quisqueya University and the State University of Haiti, the other entities making up the Haitian university are not yet represented institutionally on this platform. There is therefore a whole field to develop in the country. Indeed, the Haitian University, through the quality of its teaching and its research, has a heavy responsibility to support public decision-makers in achieving the SDGs in 2030. Because science must inevitably be mobilized in supporting public decision-making for development.
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