Open Movement

Definition

The Open Movement is a philosophy advocating for knowledge as a public good. Not a centralized 'movement' in the literal sense, it unites decentralized communities and initiatives through shared principles of participatory processes, unrestricted access, and reusability, summarized under the rubric Openness.

Background

Modular Approach to a Societal Paradigm Shift

The Open Movement connects initatives that aim for a more open society and the communities that drive the concepts behind them. These concepts include, for example:

• Open Access
• Citizen Science
• Open Data
• Open Education
• Open Government
• Open Innovation
• Open Science
• Open Source

These concepts build on each other, where increased openness in one domain strengthens openness in others. For example, Open Data supports Open Science by making research inputs freely accessible, Open Source enables the community-led development of software and hardware that foster Open Innovation, and Open Education helps cultivate the skills needed for meaningful participation of non-academic scholars in Citizen Science projects.

By creating a network of ideas connected by openness, the Open Movement is changing the way we produce, share and use knowledge and how we apply what we thereby learn towards benefiting all of society.

Christian Schmidt (talk)