EDUCAUSE | Consortia

An Interview with Grant Crawford

mpasiewicz — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 09:20:20 -0600

In this 11 minute recording, Grant Crawford, Director of Technology Initiatives at Midwestern Higher Education Compact guides us through the work of his organization, shares some thoughts on the Spellings report and more.

E2005 Podcast: The Identity Management Life Cycle for Consortia

podcaster — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:19:18 -0600

This 44 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled From Bright Idea to Concrete Implementation: The Identity Management Life Cycle for Consortia.

New open source consortia

StuartYeates — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 03:40:35 -0600

Seven American universities, four information technology companies and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation have formed a consortia to "accelerate innovation and contribute to open source software research"

Open source software and open standards jointly developed by universities, government and industry can create a powerful platform for collaborative innovation. These principles are based on a balanced approach to IP management and should stimulate additional joint industry and university research projects.

I'm a little cynical about such schemes, in my experience such things work best when driven by those at the coal-face rather than the higher levels, but I won't scoff until we see how it pans out.

Press release from Ewing Marion Kauffman

Four national ICT in education and research bodies get together to found new pan-European ICT body

StuartYeates — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 06:52:20 -0600

It's all happening at Educa, currently running in Berlin. The four bodies are the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK), SURF Foundation (NL), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DE) and Danish Electronic Research Library (DEFF) (DK).

I'm not on the inside track on this, so I have no idea whether the Knowledge Exchange is going to be "joined up thinking" or "bureaucratic nightmare," but they don't even have a sane place-holder website at their launch, which isn't a good sign...

Links: JISC press release, egovmonitor.com and Open Access News.