Beth Noveck, Open Grantmaking in Practice, Not Just In Principle

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"Today’s announcement from the Labor Department that it is requiring the work product of $500 million (the first tranche of $2 billion appropriated) in new grant money to be free for others to reuse represents a fundamental and laudable shift in how grants are made in government. Since grants represent half of the federal budget this is important news with potentially powerful implications for changing the culture of grantmaking. By moving towards openness in practice, it might eventually enable changes in formal policy....The Department of Education recently awarded $350M for the Race to the Top Assessment program, and not only required that the materials developed in the program be free, but that they must also be interoperable, so that no one vendor can create a platform for the free materials and force everyone to use it....[O]penness in grantmaking is not simply transparency for its own sake. Rather, openness is a means to the end of fostering greater collaboration among potential applicants; improved accountability and grants management during the process; and greater ability for the public to access work products produced with grants....[W]hen [the Dept of Labor] takes a page from NIH’s book and institutes its own open access program then another agency can come along and learn from the experience..."

Link:

http://cairns.typepad.com/blog/2011/01/open-grantmaking-in-practice-not-just-in-principle-1.html

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Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 14:44

Date published:

01/24/2011, 20:56