In recent years, there has been increased attention paid to the commercialization of key infrastructures and technologies relied on for research, scholarship, and civil society. Particularly in research and scholarship, there has been an active drumbeat building calling for more values aligned investments and adoption of open infrastructure, to combat the increasing commercialization of core tools and technologies, selling of user data, and misaligned motives of for-profit enterprises when it comes to open knowledge.

Over the past year, Invest in Open Infrastructure launched a research collaboration with 128 leaders across over 75 institutions and research organizations around the world. That research effort explored how values & principles can and should affect decision making when it comes to the core infrastructures research and scholarship rely on, building on a body of work from Educopia Institute, the French Ministry, and other leaders in the field advocating for transparency, values alignment, and better business practices.

As a result of that work and its complexity, we are standing up a Community Oversight Council -- a committee of key stakeholders across the research landscape dedicated to furthering transparency, accountability, and advocating for investment in open infrastructure solutions to ensure equitable, affordable, and reliable access to research and knowledge.

The first meeting of this group will be in August 2021, with monthly meetings to follow. Interested in participating? Please add your information below.

Have questions? Please feel free to reach out to us at tech-oversight@investinopen.org.