Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) Releases “2024 State of Open Infrastructure: Trends in Characteristics, Funding, Governance, Adoption, and Policy” Report

From an IOI Announcement:

Over the past year, Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) has been conducting a rigorous investigation into the State of Open Infrastructure, including characteristics of open infrastructure, funding, governance, adoption, and policy development. Today we are proud to share the results of that work.

The report provides exclusive data and analysis from this investigation of open infrastructure’s attributes and issues impacting them, including funding, governance, adoption, and policy development. By viewing open infrastructure through multiple lenses, we offer a holistic understanding of the open infrastructure ecosystem.

In addition, it integrates perspectives from multiple stakeholders to track the open infrastructure sector’s key trends and emerging opportunities for collaboration, innovation, and investment. This report also offers strategic insights and actionable recommendations to help stakeholders navigate change and complexity in research and higher education, make informed decisions, and mitigate risks.

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• Open Infrastructures demonstrate a strong and widespread commitment to community engagement and governance, as well as transparent policies and practices. Read “Characteristics of selected open infrastructures”. 
• Based on our analysis of $US415M+ in grant funding, we observe that open infrastructures are named in many awards that likely do not provide funding directly to them, thus signaling their importance and impact in research and scholarship. Read “The state of open infrastructure grant funding”.
• Procurement and IT governance processes can add complexity to the adoption and implementation of open infrastructure, but we find that leveraging consortia and networks for adoption can mitigate some of the risks to individual institutions. Read “The influence of procurement and information technology governance processes on the adoption of open infrastructure“ and “Trends in open infrastructure performance and adoption.”

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