Faduma Abukar Mursal and Serena O. Dankwa present the current position paper on "Open Science and Data Management in Anthropological Research" of the Swiss Anthropological Association that results from a four-year, multi-party process launched in 2017. This process was catalyzed by new data management protocols introduced by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

While the push towards open science and data management is mostly welcome, the presenters take the opportunity to reflect on its consequences for disciplinary practices across a wide array of issues, ranging from collaborative research to informed consent, from data protection to procedures for sharing their research results with the people with whom they work.