Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) is excited to announce the release of our 2024 Impact Report. From fostering open infrastructure adoption to address the computational needs of Latin American and African biomedical researchers to strengthening critical platforms like arXiv, bioRxiv and medRxiv, our efforts this year have brought us closer to our vision of open infrastructure being the default in research and scholarship.
2024 has been a year of firsts for IOI. Through our three program areas — data room, funding pilots, and strategic support— we have made great strides in enhancing sustainability, visibility, and investment in open infrastructure. Infra Finder, our new open infrastructure discovery and evaluation tool, showcases 90+ open infrastructures and highlights how they are advancing open values and furthering an accessible and equitable research ecosystem. Our first-ever State of Open Infrastructure report uncovers key trends, gaps and opportunities in the shifting open infrastructure grant funding, governance, and policy landscapes. These tools and insights are facilitating enhanced decision-making for organizations or institutions looking to adopt or invest in open infrastructures.
Crucial insights for our community that we have learned from our work:
- Open is not free and we need to understand its costs better;
- We need to move beyond the survival of individual infrastructures to fostering healthy co-opetition, shared efficiencies, organizational consolidation, and interoperability;
- Bridging divides — setting aside biases and focusing on our shared values — is key to bringing more diverse stakeholders to the table to create a more resilient open infrastructure ecosystem.
As we begin work on our 2024-2027 strategic plan, you will see us focusing on further addressing misconceptions about open infrastructure, fostering co-opetition for a resilient open ecosystem, and bringing together those who share a common passion and goal of enabling global knowledge sharing and discovery.
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