The document discusses challenges facing digital content projects in academia and cultural heritage sectors due to economic difficulties. It summarizes research identifying five key steps for sustaining digital resources: empowering leadership, creating value, managing costs, generating revenue, and establishing accountability. The document considers what role funders can play in helping projects achieve sustainability, such as ensuring value propositions are clear, providing solutions to lower costs, and evaluating revenue generation. It questions how funders can define and support sustainability over project lifecycles. Long-term issues around digital preservation are also raised.
Sarah Fahmy, of the Strategic Content Alliance, on the challenges faced by library, cultural heritage and other related sectors with the current financial situation.
Looks at the consequences for digital projects at this time, but also shows how these problems can be mitigated.
Sarah Fahmy, of the Strategic Content Alliance, on the challenges faced by library, cultural heritage and other related sectors with the current financial situation.
Looks at the consequences for digital projects at this time, but also shows how these problems can be mitigated.
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An overview of the "In from The Cold" survey which looked at the effects of orphan works on public services - Published by the Strategic Content Alliance and The Collections Trust in 2009.
A recent IIED study on climate finance shows a big gap between total climate funds available and the proportion of that being implemented at local scale. In addition, global spending on conventional agriculture and forestry is manifold the spending on responsible land use practices. The CGIAR program on Forest Trees and Agroforestry studies success factors for inclusive and responsible businesses, which are at the core of both climate finance and responsible investments. It also looks at financial mechanisms that can adequately address the needs of such businesses.
This presentation by Adele Atkinson was made at the High-level Global Symposium on Financial Education: Promoting Long-term Savings and Investments in Korea which explored policies and good practices for supporting long-term savings and investments through financial education and financial consumer protection. Find out more at http://www.oecd.org/daf/fin/financial-education/globalsymposiumonfinancialeducationforlong-termsavingsandinvestments.htm
This presentation was given by Luc Lalande, Carleton University at the 2008 Association for the Commercialization of Canadian Technology (ACCT) annual meeting.
Making blended finance work for water and sanitation green talks webinarOECD Environment
Water-related investments are key for sustainable development and inclusive growth. Blended finance can play a critical role in mobilising commercial finance and strengthening the financing systems on which water-related investments rely on. Water flows as a prerequisite through every one of the sustainable development goals (SDGs), especially those on food security, healthy lives, energy, sustainable cities and marine and terrestrial ecosystems.
We need a water low-carbon resilient infrastructure. Delivering these environmental ambitions will require historic scaling of financing on water related investments. These requires using existing sources of finance more strategically.
On 9 Sept 2019, Kathleen Dominique of the Environment Directorate OECD and Wiebke Bartz-Zuccala of the Development Co-operation Directorate OECD, discussed ongoing OECD work on blended finance and what has worked in the past as well as the potential to scale up blended finance approaches to apply to a broader range of investment types and contexts.
Watch the video recording of the Green Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2cO5F5gg2g&t=50s
Find out more: http://www.oecd.org/environment/making-blended-finance-work-for-sdg-6-5efc8950-en.htm
Understanding the Challenges inherent between Project Design and Project Implementation in Donor Funded projects especially in Developing countries. It is a Project (Final Project Digital Artifact) for Finance For Development Course by the World Bank Group
An overview of the value proposition of the Strategic Content Alliance covering the digital content lifecycle and work undertaken to address some of the tactical issues in a networked environment.
An overview of the "In from The Cold" survey which looked at the effects of orphan works on public services - Published by the Strategic Content Alliance and The Collections Trust in 2009.
Summary on the 'Digging into Data' international collaboration for a Funders Forum held following a programme meeting where projects from Phase Two presented their outputs to date.
An overview of the Strategic Content Alliance IPR Toolkit development, including the first UK Orphan Works Survey with the Collections Trust. This overview looks at the challenges and opportunities in the field of IPR - which will be assisted through the development of an IPR Toolkit due for delivery in Q1 2009.
Insights into how UCL, Imperial War Museums and the National Library of Wales are adjusting their policies and strategis as part of organisational change to support digital content and services.
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5th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2014 Integrative Risk Management - The role of science, technology & practice 24-28 August 2014 in Davos, Switzerland
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The Strategic Content Alliance
The drive towards sustainability...
Stuart Dempster
Director , Strategic Content Alliance
3. A golden age...now gone?
www.jisc.ac.uk/contentalliance | Slide 329/01/2015
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Plenty of ‘big’ issues
Fragile and hostile economy
Government instability in the UK
UK university budgets to be cut £449 million in 2010-11, with £215 million cuts for
teaching and research funding flat
Uncertainty about what further cuts a new government might bring
Government budgets are under duress in the US
At least 39 US states have reduced funds allocated to higher education
Endowment investments in decline
American university endowments registered their worst average returns since 1974
Philanthropic foundations making smaller grants
Median annual grant-making for large U.S. foundations dropped $2.1 million in 2009
What are the consequences for innovation in higher education, cultural
heritage, and related sectors?
8. The big issues are affecting funders
For grantors, pain points at every stage in the life cycle of a funded project:
Previously funded projects returning to ask for more funding at the end
of their initial grant cycle
Once the project’s initial grant ends, less funding available for on-going
support from universities, museums, and other host institutions
More innovative projects are at the door seeking start-up funding
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Doesn’t Change the Fundamentals:
“Now We Mean It!””
Ithaka S+R conducted research on online resources in the
academic and cultural heritage sectors in 2008-09
In a series of twelve case studies, profiled the projects’
histories, costs and revenues, and sustainability plans
Identified five key steps for sustaining a digital resource
This underlined the challenges of trying to make each funded
project sustainable. Is there capacity to respond to a more
challenging environment?
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Sustaining Digital Resources:
An On-the-Ground View of Projects Today)
Sustainability is the ability
to generate or gain access to
the resources—financial or
otherwise—needed to protect
and increase the value of the
content or service for those
who use it
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What role for funders?
The study addressed sustainability from the project leaders’ point of view:
What are the steps they took to balance costs and revenues, plan for
future investments in and updates to the resources, build a robust
community of users
The study did not address the roles funders play:
What does project sustainability look like from the funders’ side?
What are the steps they can take in this process?
What are the obstacles?
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Five Steps to Sustainability
Empower leadership to define the mission and take
action
Create a strong value proposition
Creatively manage costs
Cultivate diverse sources of revenue
Establish realistic goals and a system of accountability
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Empower leadership
Found that successful
projects have leaders who:
are strongly dedicated to
the projects
pursue new
opportunities and risks
hire talented staff
What can funders do to help?
How much control do funders
have over project leadership?
How can funders build capacity
for entrepreneurship and
innovation in their grantee project
leaders?
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Create a strong value proposition
What can funders do to help?
– How can funders help
ensure that value
proposition is clearly
articulated?
– Do funders discuss
impact?
– How can funders help
strengthen the value
proposition of the projects
they support?
– Do funding guidelines
give resource leaders the
freedom
Project leaders:
Create a resource that offers unique
value, and understand that value
Deeply understand to whom the
resource offers value, and why
Continue to add value to the
resource based on an
understanding of users’ needs
15. Creatively manage costs
Project leaders:
Minimise direct costs
Secure contributions
from the host
institutions
Outsource to vendors
Recruit volunteers
Need accurate and full
accounting of operating
costs
What can funders do to help?
Our research pointed out that host
institutions may be less able to
provide the in-kind support that
was possible in a stronger
economy.
Is the model of transitioning a
funded digital project to a willing
host institution still viable?
How can funders provide scaled
solutions to lower costs for all the
digital resources they fund?
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Cultivate diverse sources of revenue
Project leaders:
Cultivate sources of
revenue to cover both
direct costs and ongoing
upgrades
Experiment with different
revenue models
Clearly identify the value of
the resource to the target
audiences
Consider diverse sources
of revenue
What can funders do to help?
Do foundations and granting
agencies value the development of
long-term revenue sources?
How do funder policies regarding IP
constrain revenue options for
projects?
How is progress toward revenue
generation evaluated throughout the
grant?
Do funders require revenue
projections?
17. Establish realistic goals and accountability
What can funders do to help?
Do funders require the
development of measurable
goals and objectives?
How are fundees required to
report impact to funders?
Do fundee impact reports
affect the future funding
practices of grantors? If so,
how?
Project leaders:
Establish goals and targets
with their host institutions
Determine balance between
financial and mission goals
Assess progress
Connect their broad mission
to quantifiable targets
18. What questions can funders ask themselves?
Which types of projects require sustainability?
How do funders articulate their exit strategies to
projects?
And just what does sustainability mean?
Covering just direct costs?
Covering all operational costs?
Generating enough to continue resource development?
19. In a harsher economic environment for universities, libraries,
museums, and others, difficult questions to answer:
Which projects need to be “sustained”?
How can funders and fundees better define what
“sustainability” will require and understand the steps needed
to accomplish this?
How can funders’ policies and practices improve the chances
for success of the projects they fund?
How can a funder have impact in the Five Key Areas, to help
digital resources survive and thrive?
For funders, new big issues
20. Longer-term issues rising to the top
Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access
final report pointed to continued need for attention to digital preservation
Highlighted key recommendations for stakeholder groups, including
funders and sponsors of data creation
Create preservation mandates when possible
Invest in building capacity for preservation
Provide leadership in training and education for digital preservation
Fund the modeling and testing of domain-specific preservation strategies
Suggests the importance of a more expansive role for funders over the
lifecycle of a digital project
Is this a sustainable situation for funders?
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Advocacy, Adaptation and Adoption…
Policy makers…dialogue and influence Practitioners…retooling and re-skilling
22. Where you can find more information
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/contentalliancehttp://sca.jiscinvolve.org/