Global Open Movement/Stakeholders

A list of the current stakeholders and events in the open movement.

Using the definition of Open Future, the open movement consists of people, communities, and organizations who (1) contribute to shared resources online that are available for everyone to use and reuse, (2) and/or advocate for non-exclusive access and use of information resources^[1].

In general, for the event "Global Open Movement" we will emphasise the value of:

Open licenses and tools which do not restrict commercial reuse and derivative works.
The use of tools, products, services and infrastructures based on open and free software.
Processes of engagement of volunteers which consider issues related to inclusion, diversity, privacy and produce resources made available with the principle of the share-alike.
No additional restrictions on content under the public domain or not covered by copyright; data in CC0.


	Stakeholders	Current events
Open content - Free-culture movement	Wikimedia List of Wikimedia Conferences and Events	Wikimania
		Wikimedia conference / Wikimedia summit
		Hackathons - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events
		GLAM conferences - GLAM Wiki Global GLAM/Conferences
		Eduwiki conference - Wikimedia + Education
		Wikimedia Diversity Conferences
		Wikidata
		Research - Research:Events
		Regional conference Africa - WikiIndaba
		Regional conference - WikiArabia
		Regional conference - WikiConference USA / WikiConference North America
		German WikiCon
		Regional conference - Latin America + - IberoConf
		Regional conference - WikiConvention francophone
		Italian Wiki Con
		WikiConference India
		Regional conference - Wikimedia CEE Meeting
		Regional conference - ESEAP Conference & Strategy Summit
		National conferences - many
		Wikipedia Academy
		Wikipedia Day
		Wikimedia Europe assembly
		WikiSym - International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration 2005-2022 https://opensym.org/archives/
	Internet Archive
Open maps and geographical data	OpenStreetMap Foundation	State of the Map https://stateofthemap.org/ - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_of_the_Map reports/overview
	Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) https://www.osgeo.org/	FOSS4G https://foss4g.org/ (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Past_FOSS4G_Reports)
	OGC Open Geospacial Consortium
	Open Geo Hub - open data culture for open development communities https://opengeohub.org
	Ushahidi
Free and open software - Free software movement / Open-source-software movement		FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting)
		Open Source Day
		Linux Day + Software Freedom Day
	FSF Free Software Foundation and FSFE Free Software Foundation Europe	LibrePlanet
	Linux Foundation	Open Source Summit
	Mozilla Foundation	MozFest (Mozilla Festival)
	Companies producing free and open software: Blender https://www.blender.org/	Strong presence at events; also financial and technical support.
Open Hardware	The Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA)	Open Hardware Summit / OSHWA Summit
	The Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA)	Open Hardware Month October
	Companies producing open hardware such as Arduino, SparkFun
FabLabs	The Fab Foundation (+ The Fab City Global Initiative)	FABx (Fab Conference)
FabLabs	The Fab Foundation (+ The Fab City Global Initiative)	Fab City Summit
Hackerspaces and Maker culture	Chaos Computer Club (CCC)	Chaos Communication Congress (CCC)
	The Hacker Quarterly	Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE)
	Online community of Hackaday	Hackaday Superconference
	BornHack - community in Denmark	BornHack
	European and Dutch communities	SHA (Still Hacking Anyway)
	community in Italy	ESC End Summer Camp
	Make Community LLC (formerly Maker Media)	Maker Faire
	EMF Electromagnetic Field (UK-based association)	EMF Camp (Electromagnetic Field)
Open design - Open-design movement	Universities	Design OPEN https://www.designopen.it/ (conference in 2022 Parma)
	Open source design https://opensourcedesign.net	Open source design summit (last 2018 Tirana) https://opensourcedesign.net/summit/
		Pordenone Open Design Conference (last edition 2020 Italy Pordenone)
	Ushahidi	Open UP Global Summit (last Taipei 2019) https://opendesign.ushahidi.com/
Hackathons
Open licenses and tools, public domain	Creative Commons	Creative Commons Global Summit
	Open Source Initiative (OSI)
		Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest (last in 2019)
	Communia association - the International Association on the Public Domain	Digital Knowledge Act campaign
		Communia Salon
		Communia International Conference (seems not active)
Advocacy (+ digital democracy, digital sovereignty, internet neutrality)	Open Knowledge Foundation	Open data day https://opendataday.org/
	Open Knowledge Foundation	Open Knowledge Festival (OKFestival) - last in 2018
		Free Culture Forum (last in 2015) https://fcforum.net/en/
	Open Future Foundation
	Public Knowledge
	Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
	Civic Hall and Personal Democracy Media	Personal Democracy Forum (PDF) https://personaldemocracy.com/
		International Conference on Digital Democracy (E-Democracy) - ICEDEG. Next in 2025 https://edem-egov.org/
	Global Digital Compact (network)
	European Union	The future of Europe 2022
	Access Now	RightsCon
	The Internet Freedom Festival Community	Internet Freedom Festival (IFF)
	Global Voices	Global Voices Summit
	Republica GmbH	Re:publica https://re-publica.com/en
	Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East and Southern Africa (CIPESA)	Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa (FIFAfrica)
	UN United Nations	Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
	Paradigm Initiative https://paradigmhq.org/	Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum (DRIF)
	Global Partners Digital
	Journal Platoniq https://journal.platoniq.net
	EuroDIG Foundation	European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG)
	Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University https://cyber.harvard.edu/
	Fight for the future https://www.fightforthefuture.org/
	SUPERRR Laboratory for feminist digital futures https://superrr.net/
Open education, OER Open Educational Resources - Open education	Open Education Global (OEGlobal)	OEGlobal Annual Conference: https://conference.oeglobal.org/2024/
	SPARC	Open Education Conference (#OpenEd) https://openeducationconference.org/
	UNESCO	Digital Learning Week International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) 2024 Global education meeting
Open Science, open access, open research	CoARA Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment https://coara.eu/, Universities UNESCO OpenAIRE
	SPARC Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition https://sparcopen.org/ - Sparc Europe. Open access, open education, open data Right to Research Coalition )R2RC)	International Open Access Week
		OpenCon https://www.opencon.community/ (last event 2018)
	Center for Open Science (USA)	Year of open science https://www.cos.io/yos-conference Metascience 2025 London https://metascience.info/
		Open Science Conference https://www.open-science-conference.eu/
	OPERAS – Open scholarly communication in the European research area for social sciences and humanities
	Knowledge Rights 21: access to culture, learing and research https://www.knowledgerights21.org/ (advocacy)
	OASPA Open Access Scholarly Publishing association
	F1000 an open research publisher and services provider
	Plan S coalition https://www.coalition-s.org/ (promoted by European Science Foundation) COAlition S
	AmeliCA . Open Science for Common Good (Latin America) http://amelica.org
	Open Access 2020 https://oa2020.org/
	Eurodoc - European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers
	Young academy of Europe https://yacadeuro.org/
	Liber research library community https://libereurope.eu/
	FORCE11 (The Future of Research Communications and e-Scholarship)	FORCE2023 every 2 years, now annual FORCE2024 https://force11.org/conference/
	EOSC association (European Open Science Cloud) https://eosc.eu	EOSC Symposium (European Open Science Cloud)
		diamond open access global summit (first in 2023 in Toluca Mexico)
	Crossref https://www.crossref.org/
Citizen science	The Citizen Science Association	Citizen Science Association Conference (CSA)
Citizen science	European Citizen Science association https://www.ecsa.ng	ECSA conference https://www.ecsa.ngo/conferences/
Open data		Open data day (May)
	Open Data Institute (ODI)
	The European Union’s Open Data Portal
	Open Data for Development OD4D
		Open Data Science Conference (ODSC)
	The International Development Research Centre (IDRC), World Bank, and Open Data for Development (OD4D)	The International Open Data Conference (IODC) - biennial
	The Open Data Research Network	Open Data Research Symposium - http://odresearch.org/ (3rd in 2018)
	Connected by data https://connectedbydata.org (advocacy)
	Global data barometer https://globaldatabarometer.org/
	Open Data Charter https://opendatacharter.org/
Open repositories	Zenodo
	COAR Confederation of open access repositories https://coar-repositories.org/
	SCOSS - Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services - help sustaining open infrastructures
Open government		Open Gov Week May
		International Conference of Information Commissioners (ICIC) https://www.informationcommissioners.org/
	Open Government Partnership (OGP) https://www.opengovpartnership.org/	OGP Global Summit 2023
	The Feminist Open Government (FOGO)
OpenGLAM, Open Culture, digital strategies of cultural institutions	Creative Commons, Wikimedia, UNESCO
	Libraries - IFLA	IFLA congress https://www.ifla.org/congress/. The IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) takes place during August each year in a city selected through a competitive process. The congress typically attracts between 3000 – 4000 attendees from over 100 countries.
	Libraries Futures https://www.libraryfutures.net/
	EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) - Knowledge without boundaries – information without borders - involved also in the Open Climate Campaign
	Museums - ICOM International council of museums	Museum day 18 May A triennial conference 2023, next 2026, 2029 Specific working groups on digital strategies
	Archives - ICA International council of archives https://www.ica.org/	ICA conference - International Council on Archives Congress - 2027 (every 4 years)
	DARIAH-EU Digital research infrastructure for arts and humanities https://www.dariah.eu
	Europeana
NGOs	NTEN (Nonprofit Technology Network)	Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) - supported by corporate sponsors
	CIVICUS	International Civil Society Week (ICSW)
	Council of Europe	Conference of International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGOs)
Social innovation	Social Innovation Exchange (SIX)	Social Innovation Summit
	Ashoka	Global Social Innovation Summit
	Impact Hub	Social Innovation Week
	Social Innovation Exchange
	Mashable - media	Social Good Summit
	European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL)	Open Social Innovation Conference
Open innovation	Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley.	World Open Innovation Conference (WOIC)
	Innovation Enterprise	Open Innovation Summit
	European Commission and Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group (OISPG)	Open Innovation 2.0 Conference
		Global Open Innovation Conference
	Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management	Open and User Innovation Conference
	Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft	Open Innovation Week
	Innovation Roundtable	Innovation Roundtable Summit
	International Society for Professional Innovation Management	ISPIM Innovation Conference (International Society for Professional Innovation Management)
Sustainability and environment	Apropedia - The sustainability wiki
	Wiki Green Initiatives https://wikigreeninitiative.org/ Accra Ghana
	Green Web Foundation https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/
		Open Source Circular Economy Days https://oscedays.org/ (2015-2018)
	Open Climate Campaign
Open data for life science	EU-Life Alliance of research institutes advocating for excellent research in Europe in life sciences research
	Wiki project Med
	ZonMw https://www.zonmw.nl/en
	EMBO https://www.embo.org supporting open research in life sciences
Funds - supporting open initiatives	Open Society Foundations (OSI)
	The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
	The World Wide Web Foundation
	Welcome Trust
	Knight Foundation
	The National Science Foundation (NSF)
	Skoll Foundation
	Open Technology Fund OTF https://www.opentech.fund/
	MacArthur Foundation
	Fundacion Karisma (Colombia)
	Robert Bosch Stiftung (global issues)
	Bertelsmann Stiftung (social change)
	Stiftung Mercator https://www.stiftung-mercator.de/en/
	DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)
	Omidyar Network
	Global Philanthropy Forum	Global Philanthropy Forum

References

↑ Tarkowski, Alek; Keller, Paul; Warso, Zuzanna; Goliński, Krzysztof; Koźniewski, Jakub (2023-07-06). "Fields of open. Mapping the open movement.". Open Future.

Bibliography

Tarkowski, A., Keller, P., Warso, Z., Goliński, K., & Koźniewski, J. (2023). Fields of open. Mapping the open movement. Open Future. Retrieved from https://openfuture.pubpub.org/pub/fields-of-open

Tarkowski, A., Janus, A., & Warso, Z. (2023). Shifting tides: the open movement at a turning point. Open Future. Retrieved from https://openfuture.pubpub.org/pub/shifting-tides.

[1] Tarkowski, Alek; Keller, Paul; Warso, Zuzanna; Goliński, Krzysztof; Koźniewski, Jakub (2023-07-06). "Fields of open. Mapping the open movement.". Open Future.

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