Status: Active

Partners: Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative

Team members: Gail Steinhart, Sarah Lippincott, Karl Huang

Overview

The 2025 characteristics of open infrastructure dashboard provides a snapshot of the general characteristics of selected open infrastructures (more about how we selected these infrastructures in the below). 

Built on data and analysis from Invest in Open Infrastructure’s Infra Finder and 2025 State of Open Infrastructure Report, this dashboard enables stakeholders in the open infrastructure space — funders, adopters, open infrastructure services, and others — to:

  • Better understand open infrastructures’ characteristics, including their governance, business form and finances, policies, community engagement, and technical attributes.
  • Have a clearer picture on the interdependencies between open infrastructures and how best to enhance resilience of ecosystem resilience
  • Make more informed decisions regarding investment and adoption based on the available data.

Dashboard

Data and methodology

The dashboard supports Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI)’s 2025 State of Open Infrastructure Report. Please see the report for notes about the methodology used in the “More information about the data section”.

The current data were gathered as part of IOI’s building of Infra Finder — find out more about how we collected and verified the data in Infra Finder’s documentation.

A snapshot of the 2025 data used to populate the current dashboard is available for download and includes detailed documentation: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14647337 

The data supporting the analysis in the Characteristics of Selected Open Infrastructures chapter of our 2024 State of Open Infrastructure report is available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10835677

This work was generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Arcadia Fund.

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Feedback

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