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19 November 2010
“More effective platforms for sharing research knowledge globally”
MK4D Output2
Output 2 - what’s it all about?
Linking up and building up the development intermediary sector
Creating a more enabling environment for connecting up content, systems and people sustainably
Building the capacity of the sector to share and aggregate research knowledge in meaningful and demand-led ways
Output 2 – the proposal rationale
Output 2 – key features of activities
All partnership based – about facilitating, connecting up
Linkages with other MK4D activities - especially in Output 1
Work streams may cut across output 2 activity groupings, MK4D, projects from other funders and/or with other partners
MK4D may be the funder and enabler not an implementing actor in some activities
3 groupings – Scoping, Systems, Behaviours
Output 2 activity areas
Output 2 – Scoping
Scoping and mapping the intermediary sector
Content sharing capacity audit – global network analysis
Content bases, systems, standards, people
Make available as a tool for the sector
Enable intermediaries to identify potential collaborators and content streams
Keep updated
Resources will cover English language scoping only
Will inform other MK4D activities
Output 2 – Networks: The I-K-Mediary Network an emerging global network of organisations that play a knowledge and information intermediary role in development 67 individuals from 27 organisations (research institutes, networks, government and international organisations in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania) aims to enhance and enable the positive impacts of information and knowledge intermediary work by increasing the effectiveness of members and creating a more enabling environment for their work learn, innovate, support professional development, collaborate, advocate, develop capacity, build greater understanding of “infomediary” role
Output 2 – Systems
Open API open Application Programming Interface opens up to the MK4D services’ content base to
programmatic use by others for new applications powerful potential to combine multi-source content in
innovative ways cross-platform opportunities workshop in Delhi earlier this week
Output 2 – Systems
Enabling collaborative support and/or development of ICT systems for content sharing
Supporting intermediaries to produce outputs for sharing online
Output 2 – Behaviours
Working group(s) on behaviours to enable content sharing, to develop and promote agreed standards, protocols, policies, and tools open access – licensing, Creative Commons, global
copyright release indexing, content formats, technologies
Targeted advocacy for promoting uptake of standards for data sharing and quality assessment Lobbying / campaigning for Open access, Open API,
Open Standards sponsoring participants in debates to get southern
perspectives
Output 2 – Behaviours
Working group(s) on behaviours to enable content sharing
Targeted advocacy for promoting uptake of standards for data sharing and quality assessment
Main activity areas
Scoping and mapping the intermediary sector
Intermediaries networks building , facilitation and events
Open API
Enabling collaborative support/development of ICT systems for content sharing
Supporting intermediaries to produce outputs for sharing online
Working group on behaviours to enable content sharing
Targeted advocacy for promoting sharing