[okfn-advisory] Reminder of Open Knowledge 'central' strategy

Wed May 28 22:26:05 UTC 2014

I have not received the attachment. Laura, could you re-send it pls?

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Andrew Stott <andrew.stott at dirdigeng.com>wrote:

> Laura
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> Thanks for sharing this.
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> I think that this is a good document – right in both tone and length. It’s
> short on target metrics, but like some other strategies it perhaps is
> better to concentrate on direction of travel.
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> To me there were main three issues:
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> *           there is mention of “essential knowledge” and “essential
> data”.  “Essential” raises all sort of questions about what is essential
> and who decides.  Essential is a high test – it is hard to imagine that the
> Reagan decision to open GPS would have passed it, especially as no-one
> guessed at the time that it would give more than $100bn a year benefit to
> the US economy!  The text reads just as well with s/essential//g applied.
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> *           as you and I have discussed, I consider that a strength of
> OKFN is its Knowledge Transfer function – which benefits the world, not
> just those who are members of recognisable OKFN communities.  Perhaps we
> can stress this and link it to the very openness of the knowledge which
> OKFN, its members and its wider community contribute?
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> *           the narrative seems a bit weighted towards transparency and I
> did not consider that shared prosperity, maximisation of public welfare and
> advancement of the human species were sufficiently emphasised as well.
> IMHO they are also important objectives – and is as much if not more of a
> driver to Open Science, Open Culture and Open Innovation as to Open Data.
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> Regards
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> Andrew
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> *From:* okfn-advisory [mailto:okfn-advisory-bounces at lists.okfn.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Laura James
> *Sent:* 26 May 2014 11:26
> *To:* Open Knowledge Advisory Council
> *Subject:* [okfn-advisory] Reminder of Open Knowledge 'central' strategy
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> All,
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> In talking with Chapters over the last couple of months, I mentioned that
> we were working up   shorter and more readable form of our strategy to
> share. Here it is!
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> The strategic direction (in terms of goals and activities) is unchanged
> from last summer when it was discussed with many of you, although we have
> substantially clarified how we present it since then.
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> Comments and feedback most welcome!  This is our first real strategy and
> of course it will not remain unchanged; we will be reviewing on a regular
> cycle.
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> Best regards,
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> Laura
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