THE FUTURE OF OPEN

ANNEMARIE NAYLOR@COMMONFUTRS

THE LARGEST OPEN NETWORK,POSSIBLY IN THE WORLD...

THE OPENINSTITUTE

ANNEMARIE NAYLOR@COMMONFUTRS

So, if it’s to succeed in its overarching mission, it’s architecture, foundations and its outer limits

must also be open – by default.

Without this, the impact of Government’s investment in the Open Institute and Tech City, more broadly, is

liable to be highly circumscribed.

HOW CAN EVERYONE GAIN ACCESS TO THE OPEN INSTITUTE?

Build upon the fine grain of long established local institutions, harness the can-do and know-how of Tech City communities,

and translate that via a truly open infrastructure so that innovation, services and growth can benefit everyone.

In short, it should...

Provide access to 100% open, symmetrical

and hybrid networking hardware

Encourage and enable civic engineering

Stimulate participation in MOOCs juxtaposed

broad-ranging Community Publishing initiatives

– knowledge consumption as well as production

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The plan... Plan A – a bespoke Local Area Network

Plan B – a community owned and managed WAN for Tech City

Plan C – a!ordable WWW access for all founded upon EITHER

- collaborative consumption principles (shared corporate connections)

- an open ISP capable of wholesale backbone access, group hardware

purchasing and installation support on a social enterprise footing -

subsidised by corporate SR contributions

WHO? WHERE? WHEN? How will we know if it succeeds?

Is it capable of generating a social,

economic and environmental return?

HOW OPEN (OR LIMITED) ARE YOUR AMBITIONS?

ANNEMARIE NAYLOR@COMMONFUTRS

...its scale and openness should only be limitedby the ambition of its many civic engineers.

Together, we are supporting the creation of digital assets

and enterprises being developed by and for communities

across the UK. with....

Visit www.OurDigitalCommunity.org

We are prototyping community publishing with support from....

OH, AND......we’ve already established the largest open network in the European Union!