We don't read about it a lot in the English-language press, but as this article reports, "long before the term "Diamond Open Access" existed, or became a term international policy bodies reached for, it was simply how most of Latin America published research. Public universities ran their own journals and provided hosting either internally or by partnering with fellow institutions. Editors worked without author fees because the idea of charging researchers to publish, or readers to read, never took hold the way it did elsewhere." The article describes how the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) Open Journal Systems (OJS) played a role in this region, and how it learned from it in turn.
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