The document outlines the Institute for Open Leadership which aims to cultivate open policy leaders through a one-week training program and year-long project. It discusses four key tenets of open policy including making publicly funded resources openly licensed by default. It also describes the Open Policy Network of 42 institutional members and a steering committee that connects advocates and policymakers. Finally, it provides details on the first class of 13 fellows from different countries and next steps to scale the program.
2. FOUR KEY TENETS
• (The obviousness of) OPEN POLICY
• Publicly / foundation funded resources should be openly licensed
• Default = Open (via funding requirement)
• CC BY on content, CC0 on data
3. OPEN POLICY NETWORK
• Foster the creation, adoption, and implementation of open policies that
advance the public good
• Do this by supporting advocates, organizations, policymakers, and
connecting policy opportunities with those who can provide assistance
• 42 institutional OPN members
• Steering committee
• OPN work plan funded (in part)
4. INSTITUTE FOR OPEN
LEADERSHIP
• Global open movement requires new generation of open policy leaders
• 1-week in-person training on ‘open’ domains & open policy + 1-year open
policy project @ institutions / governments
• 13 “fellows”: Bangladesh, Barbados, Chile, Colombia, Greece, Nepal, New
Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Somalia, United States
• “Mentors” from open: education, science, access, data, software, culture
5. WHAT’S NEXT?
• IOL #1 fellows and mentors establish 13 new open policies in 2015
• IOL #2: Q1, 2016: location TBD
• mentors = CC staff + regional open policy experts
• Scale IOL (virtual, regional IOLs) to accommodate unmet demand (95+
applications for IOL #1)
6. IMAGE CREDITS
Institution - by Thibault Geffroy from the Noun Project - CC BY 3.0
Blueprint - by Dimitry Sunseifer from the Noun Project - CC BY 3.0
Jumping IOL - by Cable Green (IOL #1 Flickr group) - CC BY 3.0
7. Dr. Cable Green
Director of Global Learning
cable@creativecommons.org
with special thanks to:
Tim Vollmer (IOL co-lead & mentor), Paul Stacey & Puneet Kishor (mentors)
Hinweis der Redaktion
Cable Green
Director of Global Learning
Lead education initiatives and co-lead our major open policy projects.
4 years at CC
big idea - change the rules on the money:
Public gets access to what the public paid for (argument never loses).
changes behavior: requires sharing as a condition of funding (on optional, discretionary grants / contracts)
moves open education / science / data into mainstream - open becomes status quo when $$$ requires sharing
moves the $ burden - for funding open - from foundations to government
Hewlett funded OER for a over 10 years - 10s of millions … 1 “small” US DOL grant -$2 Billion
“Sustainability” ceases to be a problem - for open - when proper open policies are in place.
OA example: Research grant - include article pub fee in budget - supports OA journal operations. (see NIH, Gates, Welcome Trust)
No one org can’t do this alone. Changing global policy in all governments / all Foundations requires a global effort.
openpolicynetwork.org
open policy opportunities are rare - need immediate attention and support from the right experts
NO failed open policy opportunities
monthly video conferences - global updates
State of Open Policy reports, openness guides, HELP on web site, global open policy registry
- NOT enough to have 40-50 open orgs working on open policy - we need to Train new leaders - thousands of them - (“IOL fellows”) in the values and implementation of open licensing, policies, and practices.
- Expand reach of open policies into new institutions, countries and domains.
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- mentors = CC (4) + SPARC (2) + 5 guest speakers
- IOL #1 in San Fransisco: January 12-16, 2015
planning now / implement ‘lessons learned’ from IOL #1
Hewlett: possible “mini-IOL” to support its new CC BY open policy