Status: 2024 report published
Partners: Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative
Team members: Full IOI team, led by Gail Steinhart
Overview
Through the annual State of Open Infrastructure report, IOI aims to surface trends, patterns, issues and gaps in investment in and adoption of open infrastructure for research and scholarship, in order to identify areas that may benefit from change or intervention. We also tell success stories of open infrastructures that demonstrate and elevate their value and viability.
The 2024 State of Open Infrastructure report provides exclusive data and analysis from this investigation of open infrastructure’s attributes and issues impacting them, including funding, governance, adoption, and policy development. By viewing open infrastructure through multiple lenses, we offer a holistic understanding of the open infrastructure ecosystem.
In addition, it integrates perspectives from multiple stakeholders to track the open infrastructure sector’s key trends and emerging opportunities for collaboration, innovation, and investment. This report also offers strategic insights and actionable recommendations to help stakeholders navigate change and complexity in research and higher education, make informed decisions, and mitigate risks.
State of Open Infrastructure 2024 Key findings
- Open Infrastructures demonstrate a strong and widespread commitment to community engagement and governance, as well as transparent policies and practices. Read “Characteristics of selected open infrastructures”.
- Based on our analysis of $US415M+ in grant funding, we observe that open infrastructures are named in many awards that likely do not provide funding directly to them, thus signaling their importance and impact in research and scholarship. Read “The state of open infrastructure grant funding”.
- Procurement and IT governance processes can add complexity to the adoption and implementation of open infrastructure, but we find that leveraging consortia and networks for adoption can mitigate some of the risks to individual institutions. Read "The influence of procurement and information technology governance processes on the adoption of open infrastructure" and "Trends in open infrastructure performance and adoption".
Research outputs
- 2024 State of Open Infrastructure: Trends in characteristics, funding, governance, adoption, and policy
- Full report: HTML, PDF
- Data dashboards:
- Datasets:
- Data for: Characteristics of Selected Open Infrastructures, 2024 State of Open Infrastructure Report (Zenodo)
- Data for: The State of Open Infrastructure Grant Funding, 2024 State of Open Infrastructure Report (Zenodo)
- Data for: Open Infrastructure Governance: Current structures, nomenclature, composition, and service trends, 2024 State of Open Infrastructure Report (Zenodo)
- Infra Finder intake form (Zenodo)