Using Multiple Means of Open

to Solve Global Food Safety Challenges

Open Education Conference, Washington D.C., 20-November-2014

Paul Stacey, Associate Director of Global Learning, Creative Commons

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are licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY)

Presentation based on Open Models Concept paper written by

Paul Stacey, Garin Fons, and Theresa Bernardo.

Paper available at: http://bit.ly/1rKij7w

Global Food Safety Partnership

• Public-private initiative dedicated to improving the safety

of food in middle-income and developing countries

• Improve food safety skills, knowledge, and resources

• Create economic opportunity for developing country food

producers, food processors, and other agri-food

businesses to participate in the global food value chain

• Ensure safe food, increase food supply chain value,

accelerate economic growth, alleviate rural poverty, and

improve public health outcomes

http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/agriculture/brief/global-food-safety-partnership

Classic Approach & Challenges

• Developed world provides standards, procedures, and

practices

• Education & training delivered to country of need

• Proprietary, profit-making, competing providers

• Not coordinated, temporary, not localized

• Challenging to build internal capacity, scale and sustain

Can Open Make a Difference?

GFSP Knowledge & Learning

Working Group – Open

Garin Fons

Programs Manager

Center for Open Educational Resources

& Language Learning (COERLL)

University of Texas at Austin

Theresa Bernardo

Founder, One Health Knowledge Initiatives

Associate Professor

Epidemiology and Health Informatics

Veterinary Medicine

Michigan State University

Paul Stacey

Associate Director of

Global Learning

Creative Commons

Chris Geith

Assistant Provost & Executive Director

Michigan State University

MSUglobal Knowledge & Learning Innovations

Open Models Concept Paper

• Establish a framework and purpose for use of open

practices by GFSP members

• Create a big picture Open Models engagement strategy and

situate GFSP global and local stakeholders within it

• Describe open practices stakeholders can adopt along with

their associated value propositions

• Portray case examples showing different paths through the

open ecosystem and use of open practices

• Bring forward a GFSP open policy recommendation

• Recommend next steps

Open Models Concept Paper

http://bit.ly/1rKij7w

GFSP Open Models Big Picture

China Case Example

Colombia Case Example

Recommendations/Next Steps

• Pursue "openness" as an operating principle

• GFSP partners adopt one or more of the 9 open practices

• Openly license all GFSP publicly funded deliverables with

CC BY 4.0 license (or CC BY IGO 3.0 if IGO)

• Establish a GFSP content & community platform See:

http://www.slideshare.net/Agro-Know/gfsp-open-source-

platform-for-food-safety-capacity-building

• Identify resources partners currently have that could

contribute to GFSP goals if openly licensed

• Engage GFSP global network and public in use, reuse,

and continuous improvement of openly licensed

deliverables

• Work with GFSP partners to define open business

models

Global Food Safety

Knowledge Hub

Local Food Safety

Knowledge Hubs

Source diagram from Open Models concept paper: http://bit.ly/1p729Jm

Architecture development by Nikos Manouselis, Chief Executive Officer, Agro-Know see:

http://www.slideshare.net/Agro-Know/gfsp-open-source-platform-for-food-safety-capacity-building

Local Food Safety

Community Hubs

Global Food

Safety

Community Hub

Architecture development by Nikos Manouselis, Chief Executive Officer, Agro-Know see:

http://www.slideshare.net/Agro-Know/gfsp-open-source-platform-for-food-safety-capacity-building

hub vs. centralized approach

• information resides at site of provider

– (metadata) descriptions exchanged, facilitate information

dissemination & demonstrator; same provenance & maintenance

– powerful framework for multilingual information discovery

• secure & safe way of exchanging information

– define access, use, re-use rights & licenses

– unique identification of information entities; Communication,

Coordination, Collaboration, Educations and Training (CCCET)

across disparate systems

• enhancing existing sites/platforms with information

– existing systems interoperable; not building yet-another-system

– users discover more relevant data through platforms they already

use

Open Business Models

• What is “open”?

• What’s in it for me?

• Why use an open model rather than a proprietary model?

• How will open models generate equivalent or greater

revenue – how will we keep the lights on?

• What is the business model for open?

• How would I transition my business model to an open

one? (in whole or in part)

Show me the money!

Open for business by Libby Levi CC BY-SA

Open Business ModelsDeveloped using

an open process

over 9 years,

involving 470 co-

authors from 45

countries this

framework

provides a

practical starting

point for

depicting

business models

in general and

designing open

business

models.

Open Business Models

pstacey@creativecommons.org

Open for business by Libby Levi CC BY-SA

• To have your own open business model

designed contact Paul Stacey at Creative

Common

Paul Stacey

Associate Director of Global Learning, Creative Commons

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