(28 May 2024) 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.
Key Findings:
- Open Infrastructures demonstrate a strong and widespread commitment to community engagement and governance, as well as transparent policies and practices.
- 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.
- 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 report here, “The state of open infrastructure grant funding”.
