Open Movement/Stakeholders
| Open movement | Objectives | Stakeholders | Matrix | Programme | Wikimania | Context | History | Documentation | Team |
A list of the current stakeholders and events in the open movement.
List of stakeholders by area
edit| Area | Stakeholders | Events |
|---|---|---|
| Open content - Free-culture movement | Wikimedia | 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. | |
| Fediverse | Mastodon | |
| ... | ||
| Open Hardware | The Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) | Open Hardware Summit / OSHWA Summit |
| Open Hardware Month October | ||
| Companies producing open hardware such as Arduino, SparkFun | ||
| FabLabs | The Fab Foundation (+ The Fab City Global Initiative) | FABx (Fab Conference) |
| 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 Festival (OKFestival) - last in 2018 | ||
| Free Culture Forum (last in 2015) https://fcforum.net/en/ | ||
| Open Future Foundation https://openfuture.eu/ | ||
| Public Knowledge | ||
| Freedom Together Foundation / JPB Foundation (?) | ||
| 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) | |
| World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) - 2003, 2005, 2025[1] (https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2025/en) | ||
| TAROCH initiative | ||
| UNESCO | ||
| 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 (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) | 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 |
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| BOAI Budapest Open Access Initiative | ||
| 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 |
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| 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/ | ||
| Directory Open Access Journal (DOAJ) | ||
| Directory of Open Access Repositories Open (DOAR) | ||
| SHERPA / Now Jisc's open policy finder https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/ | ||
| Citizen science | The Citizen Science Association | Citizen Science Association Conference (CSA) |
| 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) | |
| Open Archives Initiative (OAI) https://www.openarchives.org/ | ||
| 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
edit- ↑ "World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 High-Level Event 2025". WSIS+20 High-Level Event 2025. Retrieved 2025-08-17.
Bibliography
edit- 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.