Open Models

= "Open models: Modes of organisation and knowledge production based on the digital, the free circulation of information and collaboration on an Internet scale which seek to benefit from the properties of interaction between ecosystems". [1]

=Discussion-

Via open-models.org:

"Importance of open models All open models are immature and their degree of maturity varies widely, but these phenomena are already both structuring and a driving force in our society and seem set to grow stronger with digital democratization. By their unique properties, these models provide the building blocks for the architecture of a system that is tending to improve thanks to their growing understanding and the ever-increasing number of players joining these movements.

Today, open source software is the most developed open model, it forms the foundations of our digital universe and one of the main driver of progress in computing for over 50 years. Every Internet user uses it at least indirectly, programming languages are open source, the World Wide Web is powered by open source with a cloud that depends on it, the 500 biggest supercomputers run on Linux, open source can be found on Earth, in the sky and in space… Use and contribute to a ubiquitous open source all the largest organisations in the technology sector (GAFAM + BATX), the largest universities, all the superpowers have a policy in this area.

Since the Age of Enlightenment and the first scientific revolution, science has remained imperfect and has gone through its crises. With the digital revolution coupled with ecological crises, a second scientific revolution is taking shape of which open science is becoming a central component. The whole way in which scientific knowledge is disseminated and produced is evolving, with the majority of so-called prestigious universities already participating or countries such as France seeking to normalize the practice. The aim is to ensure that “the Internet now offers the chance to constitute a global and interactive representation of human knowledge, including cultural heritage and the guarantee of worldwide access” [2003, Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities].

These transformations are gradually extending to all other fields such as education and industry, which are themselves affected by this change in relationship to knowledge. Their implementation is sometimes more complex, both technically and culturally.

Open models are at the heart of the digital revolution, a paradigm shift that will impact tomorrow’s standards."