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