JISC eContent Funding Call 11/10 - Strand B: Developing Community Content

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JISC eContent Funding Call 11/10Strand B: Developing Community Content

Simon WhittemoreBusiness and Community EngagementJISC Innovation

Call meeting28 October 2010

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/bce.aspx

Joint Information Systems Committee Simon Whittemore - BCE

Developing Community Content (11/10 Strand B)

Funding

– £440k, 5-6 projects, £50k-£100k per project

Timescales

– Deadline for submitting Bids – 12 noon, 10 December 2010

– 10 sheets of A4 maximum to [email protected]

– Projects Start by : 1 March 2011

– Projects End by : 30 September 2011

– Therefore, 7 months maximum

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Developing Community Content

Single institution or consortia

Partnerships with external organisations welcome (e.g. libraries, museums, galleries, publishers, other businesses)

Partner(s) cannot have more funds than lead institutions

Eligible – Institution X receives £60k, Partner 1 £30k

Ineligible – Institution Y receives £40k, Partner 1 £30k, Partner 2 £20k

Institutional contributions show value for money and institutional commitment

Attention to IP statements, opportunities for efficiencies, reducing costs, cross-institutional strategic alignment

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Developing Community Content 11/10

‘To develop new content and communities for educational and social purposes’

Target benefits:

Empowering a wider range of external communities

Raising digital literacy by engaging in community collections-building

Cementing links and partnerships with external communities, and integrating these into the institution’s community engagement strategy

Framework for recognition, development and strategic contextualisation of existing academic work engaging with external communities

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Developing Community Content 11/10

‘To develop new content and communities for educational and social purposes’

Target benefits:

Integrating strategic Business and Community Engagement (BCE) across institutions and strategic coordination with digital collections curators

Crowd sourcing and potential to transform & apply research, esp. in STEM & other strategically important subjects e.g. modern languages.

Good practices – inform JISC approach in enhancing teaching and research process through co-creation of content.

Exploring innovative potential and gaps in the JISC-enabled ‘digital offer’ across broad range of academic subject areas & types of collection

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How does JISC support institutions in Business and Community Engagement (BCE)?

Strategic management of relationships with external partners/clients, and of the associated services

Knowledge Transfer/ Exchange (KE); Employer Engagement (EE) Public/ Community Engagement (PE); Lifelong Learning (LL)

What is BCE?

Institutional

Strategic Areas (4):

Services: e.g: CPD consultancyetc

......business critical in constrained economic climate.

Enhancing BCE efficiency, effectiveness + opportunities;Improving external access to HE/FE knowledge + expertise

Not a bolt-on...

Benefits:


Business and Community Engagement – Enabling effective interaction

New opportunities:online collaborative tools,

virtual research,open innovation...

External access to knowledge and expertise

resources

InternalEffective processes +

Interoperable systems (e.g. CRM);

HE/FE KNOWLEDGE & EXPERTISE Research, Education

BUSINESS & COMMUNITYDEMANDProblem/need or opportunity

BCE PRACTITIONERSRelationship and Service Management

Infrastructure and Skills to supportProductive knowledge and learning partnerships


Developing Community Content: Examples from previous Call (13/09):

Building new digital collections, or transforming existing collections through genuine co-creation with specific external communities:

My Leicestershire

http://myleicestershire.wordpress.com/ (Univ. Leicester)

Digital archive of historical texts, complemented by video & oral history recordings from

partners & private collections of historical photographs

Community Cafés http://www.llas.ac.uk/projects/6192 (Univ. Southampton)Co-creation of a community collection of online language and cultural materials to address the scarcity of up-to-date, online resources for community languages

Community flood archive enhancement through storytelling (Co-FAST) http://www2.glos.ac.uk/severnfloods/ (Univ. Glos)Enhancing digital archive resource focused on community flood histories - engaging Severn communities with local flood histories, flood risk and climate change

Others - http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/communitycontent.aspx

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JISC Business and Community Engagement Strategic Priorities 2010-11 to 2012-13

Embedding BCE e.g. Embedding BCE Infokit

Organisational Capability for BCE e.g. CPD for BCE practitioners

Relationship Management e.g. CRM, alumni engagement Public value and civic engagement

e.g. Developing Community Content, Access to Resources


Developing Community Content projects :Challenges and Opportunities

Public engagement agenda

Enhancing public profile and reputation of the university

Institutional efficiency and agility to survive and thrive....

REF and Impact agenda

Engagement skills (boundary-spanning) vital for economy

Internal engagement with the right people is vital, e.g. : – knowledge transfer/exchange units– Institutional external engagement strategy: senior mgt., marketing, – external relations, community engagement teams– information management strategy Bids that cannot evidence effective internal co-ordination are unlikely to be funded....


Developing Community Content:Business and Community Engagement

Projects are strongly encouraged to consult JISC Business and Community Engagement Resources http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/bce.aspx

Embedding BCE across the institutionhttp://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/bce

CPD for Business and Community Engagement https://www.netskills.ac.uk/bcecpd/

CRM Self-analysis toolkit (relationship management) http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/crm-tools/

Access Management for BCE: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/bce/extendingaccessmanagementreport.pdf


Developing Community Content:Digitisation, Curation and Two-Way Engagement’

Projects are strongly encouraged to consult Chris Batt’s Report: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/digicurationfinalreport.aspx

Clarity of purpose, e.g. :– public access to knowledge; – engaging with the public to create new knowledge; – creating sustained two-way engagement with specific external partners; supporting project

sustainability; – sharing and pooling resources/skills & ideas in an open innovation co-development project; – building community identity and development.

Clarity of community focus; i.e which community group and why?– Not merely ‘the general public’ but more success likely with specific identified community

groups Use of social networking tools for engagement & content sharing

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Developing Community Content:Public Engagement

Projects are strongly encouraged to consult with the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE)http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/ and/or local Beacon for Public Engagementhttp://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/beacons

University strategies for public engagement across depts.

Senior management and PE practitioner toolkits

Ensuring co-ordination of external engagement

Public engagement as part of wider Business and Community Engagement or ‘third mission’ strategy

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JISC eContent Funding Call 11/10Strand B: Developing Community Content

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