Openization

On The Road to Open ICT Ecosystems

In LinuxInsider today, Jeff Kaplan presents The Road to Open ICT Ecosystems (part 1). That's an excellent overview of the roadmap.

Media coverage

To find (some) of all the press/media stories about the Roadmap, try a Google News search or a Yahoo News search. To name a few, here are stories from:

• New York Times
• International Herald Tribune
• Slashdot

Also the blogger community picked up the release, try this Technorati search. Blog sightings include:

• Bob Sutor: Breaking news
• John Palfrey: Open ePolicy report released
• Donna Wentworth: 13-Nation Army for Open Standards
• John Gotze: Openize Now! (later)

And the dialogues have just begun...

Opening openization.org

Openization.org is a blog about open ICT ecosystems, open standards and open source.

The concept of openization was coined (to our knowledge) by The Open ePolicy Group, which is a team of international experts drawn from the public, private and non-governmental sectors who have come together to consider the creation of open ICT ecosystems. The Group is hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, and is sponsored by IBM Corporation and Oracle Corporation. The Group has produced a "roadmap" that governments and their industry partners can use as a practical guide for their evolution to open ICT ecosystems. The roadmap was published recently, and is available here: Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems.

In its own spirit, the Roadmap is open-ended. It lays the foundation for further work, and lots of debates. All members of the ePolicy Group have therefore been invited to guest blog here. Other guest authors are welcome too; contact John Gøtze.