Invest in Open Infrastructure Launches

peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-05-16

Summary:

"Tuesday 14 May 2018 saw the formation of Invest In Open Infrastructure (IOI) a global initiative to increase the availability and sustainability of open knowledge infrastructure. The needs of today’s diverse scholarly communities are not being met by the existing largely uncoordinated scholarly infrastructure, which is dominated by vendor products that take ownership of the scholarly process and data without appropriate governance and oversight from the communities they serve.

 We imagine a world in which communities of researchers, scholars, and knowledge workers across the globe are fully enabled to share, discover, and collaborate using tools and platforms that are designed to interoperate and complement one another rather than compete and exclude.

IOI will consist of two functions, one is an assessment and recommendation framework that will regularly survey the landscape of open scholarly infrastructure with respect to its functionality, usage, health and financial needs and make funding recommendations for that infrastructure.

IOI’s second function will coordinate funds to follow the recommendations of the framework. Coordinating financial resources from institutions, agencies and foundations, we will work to increase the overall funding available to emerging and critical infrastructure...."

Link:

https://www.assaf.org.za/index.php/news/547-invest-in-open-infrastructure-launches

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Tags:

oa.open_science oa.infrastructure oa.platforms oa.new oa.south oa.recommendations oa.funding oa.academic_led oa.sparc oa.ioi

Date tagged:

05/16/2019, 09:53

Date published:

05/16/2019, 05:53