Simon Fenton-Jones
Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:46:55 -0700
Jan, Alberto, Kees, Joy, All, This is an attempt at crystallizing a number of the discussions that occurred at terena's last few General Assemblies about "using social networks", "outreaching to non-traditional users", as well as discussions between tf-media members over the years. The timing appears right because Europe's R&D funders are setting the social scene before technical discussions begin. http://paradiso-fp7.eu/
You might know I've been tracking the evolution of most networked media institutions, which NRENs must complement in the perspective of their national borders and educational systems. This includes National parliaments, National libraries and National broadcasters. At the same time I'm tracking the development of a new publishing model, of all forms of media, that is slowly working its way out of the institutional silos and growing around global groups. One way for a NREN, or repository, manager to see it is to Google "OER", "OCW" or "open education". This e.g. is one of the most developed global OE initiatives = http://www.ocwconsortium.org/en/members/members It's always been impossible to address the "Need to join forces and aggregate demand (volume) in a monopolistic market with major software vendors and scientific publishers", as Jan has said, until NREN members take an open and global perspective to how their global groups' content is aggregated, curated and disseminated, and agree on what tools they share to do this. Their digital curators need to address the same things, at the same time, from their historical "back ends". I know surfnet (nearly) "get" the new publishing model because they have the surf "sisters" with who they keep close contact in order to balance an NREN's predominantly technical and "services" focus. But most everywhere else, the paradigm shift has largely been ignored by NRENs as "commodity internet". It's easy to see this by comparing between refed's members' federated service priorities. https://refeds.terena.org/index.php/Federations Looking through the list of "Prominent Services", there's so much realignment between NRENs to be done. The reason we are in this predicament? Network managers and digital curators don't focus on globally-minded individuals, who congregate in small and large working groups/task forces, and often speak different (Disciplinary and National) languages. They focus on (aggregate media around) National/Continental institutions and high bandwidth projects. Information is all encompassing and real time communication is considered, so it's treated, as unrelated. OER communities suffers the same problem = trying to serve two set of masters = National institutions and global user groups. So hopefully we might consider the CCIRN as our guinea pigs in systemising a new OPEN publishing, and communications, model. http://www.terena.org/news/fullstory.php?news_id=2924 N.B. I was hoping we might have used the NREN compendium as the obvious exponent of the new models. But it seems that taking an Open, and sociable, approach to media aggregation, by using Wikipedia, has yet to take hold in some publicly funded institutions. Global Researchers/peers would like to track CCIRN's discussions in one place and not have them buried in various (NREN/continental) sites which aggregate local conferences. In between the conferences, interested peers would like to be included in a social network; perhaps something like the EC are working on at the moment. http://cordis.europa.eu/partners But more likely one whose continental secretariats also share duties, and space &services, with their global peers. We could do the usual, using the CCIRN group as our example, and set up a meaningless url called CCIRN.xx. Or we could go to a group like this http://www.educopia.org/past_events (or in surfnet's case, OCLC Pica) and ask them how we can use a "relative url" for CCIRN (or any other Virtual Home Org), which can stand for the long term, and could be used/shared to disseminate knowledge and feedback ideas, using CCIRN member's preferred (inter-federated) 'commodity services'. And found in any language. I keep looking at the EC's National contact points e.g. http://www.fp7ireland.com/page.aspx?SP=Overview And wondering why their little 'expert' groups don't seem to coordinate their activities with their global peers very well. http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ncps_en.html I've never found their "expert group for new media", which explains a lot. If Continental funders don't coordinate their activities/support coherent development, they can't expect their fundees to. Samo, samo with the World bank and UN agencies. We all know the 'silo' problem. But, in the EC, 'igloo' seems more appropriate:) http://www.iglortd.org/ OK. I'm hoping this might be a start of scoping a project for funding. My OER correspondents (like Wayne at wikieducator) insist that any project must be developed online and above the radar. So I'd like to work through and include just a few progressive CCIRN communications and PR types, and their curators on each continent. We'd also need to include this KIND of global media group. http://sae.edu in order to (hopefully) develop a few new (mini, as opposed to mass) media professionals. We'd be focussed on practice, not policy. That would be like putting the cart before the horse. i.e. the academic approach This is the EC call we'd be focussing on. http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.cooperationDetailsCallPage&call_id=319#infopack Any feedback would be appreciated, simon -----Original Message----- From: Alberto Pérez Gómez [mailto:alberto.pe...@red.es] Sent: Saturday, 25 June 2011 2:23 PM To: tf-...@terena.org Subject: [tf-msp] RV: [ga] Fwd: FW: SUPPORT FOR THE COHERENT DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH POLICIES FYI Greetings from Alberto -----Mensaje original----- De: Victor Reijs [mailto:victor.re...@heanet.ie] Enviado el: viernes, 24 de junio de 2011 12:09 Para: g...@terena.org; ja.bak...@surf.nl Asunto: [ga] Fwd: FW: SUPPORT FOR THE COHERENT DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH POLICIES Hello all of you, At last TERENA-GA we discussed something related to this transnational procurement. Have you seen this EC call? Lars, Jan and/or others; what do you think about this? Could this be utilised by our community (and who wants to start it up)? Let me know. All the best, Victor ==== *From:* Kennedy, Gerard [mailto:gerard.kenn...@enterprise-ireland.com] *Sent:* 22 June 2011 12:04 *Subject:* SUPPORT FOR THE COHERENT DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH POLICIES Dear all, Under the “Support For The Coherent Development Of Research Policies” 2012 Call there is a topic addressing “Support to transnational network of procurers”. This may be of interest to those involved in public authority procurement activities. The following is a brief on the work programme text for this: /Through this action public authorities will be able to develop capacities, test new approaches for the formulation of strategies and implementation of innovation oriented public procurement policies. By pooling the effort of several procurers, they will mobilise a critical mass of resources and will be able to involve relevant communities, stakeholders, and practitioners, sharing risks and benefits of developing new products/services./ / / As is usual for EU funded projects, this is an open competitive call, with a minimum requirement for consortia defined as follows: A minimum of 3 independent legal entities from 3 different Member States or Associated Countries. Those entities could be: - Public purchasers (public bodies and utilities that are contracting authorities as defined in public procurement directives 2004/18/EC and 2004/17/EC) planning to integrate innovative procurements (including pre-commercial) in their procurement programs; - Public authorities (e.g. managing R&D&I programs) planning to provide incentives to public purchasers to implement Pre Commercial Procurements; In addition to the minimum number of required legal entities, other stakeholders public or private (e.g. potential suppliers of solutions or private demand side actors) can be involved in the consortia if justified. 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