User:Daniel Mietchen/European Commission Open Science Policy Platform - Meta

"The following is my application to join the European Commission Open Science Policy Platform. The OSPP will provide expert advice to the European Commission on implementing the broader Open Science Agenda. As you will see, some of us have a concern that the focus of the call is on organisations, rather than communities. This is a departure from much of the focus that the Commission itself has adopted on the potential benefits and opportunities of Open Science. The community of interested and experienced people in the Open Science space does have organizational structures, of which the Open Science Working Group at Open Knowledge is the most prominent example, and its global coordinator Jenny Molloy received a very strong mandate (which includes my support) to represent the group at the Open Science Policy Platform (see public discussion). On the other hand, given that the OSPP is expected to have between 20 and 30 members, there is room for representing the diversity of ways in which the community practices and engages with Open Science, beyond the rich activities within the Open Science Working Group ..."