1. Opening ILRIs knowledge and researchInitial reflections on
results, outcomes and impacts of adopting open Peter Ballantyne
Open Knowledge for Agricultural Development Convening East Lansing,
5-6 February 2013
2. Content1. Opening ILRIs knowledge2. Thinking about outcomes
and impacts
3. (Research) business as usual doesnt work
4. Business as usual ask a farmerWhats your Ill go find Feed
somemain problem technology
5. Business as usual look on the shelf What feed Planted
foragetechnologies have Urea treated straw you got? Bypass protein
OK, lets try those
6. Our findings indicate that business as usual feed promotion
and interventions are not too promising. Alan Duncan (ILRI) If you
do what youve always done, youll get what you always got. Mark
Twain
7. Business not usual? Open the research!1. Co-create and
co-learn in open multi- stakeholder platforms2. Open up to
knowledge from the (un)usual people3. Make research knowledge,
events, processes and platforms open
8. 1. Join innovation platforms Spaces for diverse actors to
engage in dialogue, to jointly identify, learn about and address
issues Multiple knowledge Innovate and co- learn with
communities
9. 2. Open up to (un)usual voices Community perspectives Beyond
reports Look and learn Empowering Social learning
10. Participatory radio
11. Happy Strategies
12. Sandboxes
13. 3. Open our researchOpen researchWorking out loud
14. Open planning events and thinking
15. Open events all the discussions
16. Open projects work in progress
17. Open presentations
18. Open photos
19. Open reports and repository
20. Open source
21. Open data
22. Open to re-use
23. Open for feedback
24. Working in the open!bringing activities out of closed
repositoriesand applications [and events and processes],and pulling
them into the open increases thelikelihood of learning information
earlier. - Stowe Boyd: http://blog.podio.com/2011/08/01/working-
out-loud-make-work-open-to-make-it-better
25. Some indicators Web services views 12,207,73712,000,000
9,000,000 8,183,453 Open 6,000,000 4,769,214 2,990,394 3,000,000 -
2009 2010 2011 2012
26. 12.9% Composition 22.0% 24.2% web services views 24.9%
15.5% 11.2% 5.6% Open 23.2% 29.7% Social media 42.9% Google Books
Repository 33.3% 31.2% Website 13.6% Intranet 6.0% 3.6%Total 2010
Total 2011 Total 2012
28. Some indicators of openness?Publication citations and
impact factors?Object views and downloads?Co-creates?Metrics of
open resources in repositories?Engagement comments, connections,
edits Composition of research design processes / eventsValue
addition and re-use / uptake? Outputs ?
29. Theories of Change?
30. Open data and citizens Citizens as beneficiaries: receive
improved service through improved actions. Citizens as partners:
co-creating development outcomes usually through intermediaries.
Citizens as empowered actors: able to shape own access to
developmental outcomes.Source: Fostering a Critical Development
Perspective on OpenGovernment Data: Workshop Report, April
2012http://public.webfoundation.org/2012/04/ODRS/ODR-Brasilia-Meeting-Report.pdf
Impacts?
31. OER value propositionMay contribute to creating a
revolution in educationMay offer cost savings and economic
efficienciesContributes to make information and knowledge more
relevant,accessible, and useable for allFacilitates active roles
for learners in educational processes; itgenerates more effective
learning environmentsThe transparency of OER places social pressure
on institutions andteaching staff to increase quality Source:
Exploring the Business Case for Open Educational Resources. COL,
2012.
http://www.col.org/resources/publications/Pages/detail.aspx?PID=421
Outcomes ?
32. Open AccessCan amplify and improve the research processA
key part of research infrastructure - full accessibility and
utilityof articles critical in design of the research systemDriver
of scientific productivity - OA can help researchers dotheir work
more efficiently - work fasterCan speed translation of ideas into
innovative new services,products, and other commercial
ventures.Source: Joseph, H. 2012. The impact of open access on
research andscholarship: Reflections on the Berlin 9 Open Access
Conference.http://crln.acrl.org/content/73/2/83.full Outcomes
?
33. Potential outcomes of open actions?Cost savings, efficiency
and product acceleration [ofservice providers]Empowerment and
engagement [of customers, ofpartners?]Greater transparency [of
decisions, of actors ?]Access, availability, visibility [of
content]Return on investment [by funders]Improved quality
[multidimensional - of education,research, government ] Leading to
. ?
34. Q&A and Discussion1. How do you assess and measure the
opennessof outputs? And the results of this openness?2. What types
of openness outcomes, ineducation or research eg, do you seek and
howmeasure?3. How might we assess the impacts of openknowledge on
communities / learners / society?What one thing should AgShare
do?
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