Open ePolicy Group

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The Open ePolicy Group is a global network of technology experts, originally launched at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, a policy center at Harvard Law School. Created in September 2005, the Open ePolicy Group provides policymakers and managers with thought leadership and tools related to leading technology issues. The Open ePolicy Group's first product, the Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems, is a meta-level framework of best practices, case studies and tools aimed at sensitizing policymakers, CIOs, industry and other stakeholders to the benefits of open information and communication technologies (ICT) ecosystems.

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[edit] About the Open ePolicy Group

In its original formulation, the Open ePolicy Group, founded by Jeffrey A. Kaplan, represented an unprecedented global collaboration among twenty-four individuals, including senior officials from thirteen nations, thought leaders from five global organizations, experts from two leading technology companies and academics from one of the world’s most respected universities.

A new phase of the Open ePolicy Group, based at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, is expected to launch in spring 2007 with partner institutions in Brazil, China, Denmark, India and South Africa. The new initiative will focus on linkages between open technologies, innovation and the transformation of government, enterprises and economies.

[edit] Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems

In terms of content, the Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems helps people understand what open ICT ecosystems are, why they are embraced and how to evolve them. It also demonstrates how introducing “openness” across an ICT ecosystem provides new ways to drive efficiency, innovation and growth to meet the needs of our high-speed, on-demand world.

The Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems provides specific policy recommendations, tools and case studies related to ICT issues such as open standards, interoperability frameworks, open-source software, a Capability Maturity Model designed to gauge ICT ecosystems, and technology procurement.

The Open ePolicy Group coined the word openization to describe the process of increasing an ecosystem's capacity to integrate and sustain open technologies, collaborative models, interchangeable components, and transparent processes. The Roadmap principally applies this concept to a technology or ICT ecosystem, but it could apply to other fields.

The Roadmap is currently available in five languages: English, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish.

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