[Board] Fwd: News from Invest in Open Infrastructure - July 2023
Lussier, Kathy
klussier at noblenet.org
Sat Jul 22 14:02:33 EDT 2023
Hi all,
Circling back to the discussion at this week's board meeting regarding
funds to support an in-person retreat for strategic planning, do you think
it might be worth submitting a proposal to see if we could get funding
through the Open Infrastructure Fund? If our application were successful,
we could support travel costs for all participants and possibly revisit the
question of a consultant. I know there was a thought it would be difficult
to find a consultant that would understand our niche needs, but there are
consultants out there that work with open source communities, and I'm
confident the Board could explain the specific uniqueness that comes from a
library-supported project.
Strengthening Community Governance is one of their focus areas:
> - Organizing community workshops to discuss governance needs and
> (re)design governance structures.
>
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> - Convene a dedicated committee/working group of key stakeholders to
> lead work on diversifying governance.
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> - Work on improving governance processes, e.g. reviewing and evolving
> bylaws and other policies.
>
>
The deadline is just around the corner, but I would be happy to work with
somebody on the Strategic Planning Committee/Board to pull something
together if you think it's worth a shot.
Kathy
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Dear Kathy,
In May, the IOI team launched calls for proposals for the Open
Infrastructure Fund.
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Fund aims to strengthen sustainability and resilience and increase the
adoption of open infrastructure worldwide. Our community co-designed the
Fund through a series of participatory activities, which increased the
accessibility of funding and helped pilot a more transparent way of funding
open infrastructure. The application deadline is July 31, 2023, so if
interested, make sure to submit your proposal before then.
In June, we also held our second in-person workshop in Africa, adjacent to
Open Repositories 2023. The workshop was a multi-sectoral forum to
understand how best to synergise the public and private sectors to commit
additional resources for African research infrastructure. We have
summarised the key points in a blog post
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we hope you will find insightful.
Internally, the IOI team has also been growing, with two new members
joining in May and additional team members joining in the next few weeks.
We have also been doing some strategic realignment to ensure that we are
responsive to the community we serve and put in place the required
processes and systems to be more efficient.
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reserved for Low and Middle-Income Economies as part of our resolve to
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*Open access ‘at any cost’ cannot support scholarly publishing communities*
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of open research infrastructures. We invited a range of actors from the
private sector, governments, and academia to explore how we can synergize
between the private and public sectors to come up with sustainable models
for investing in research infrastructure. We summarized the key learnings
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*Final report on defining open infrastructure launched*
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our preliminary investigation
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year. The report highlights key findings on the critical dimensions and
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derived from an extensive literature review process. This report represents
a significant step towards enhancing our collective understanding of the
infrastructure that supports scientific research and scholarly
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