JISC currently leads 2 international, corporate initiatives that promote providing leadership and working with influencers JISC currently leads two international, corporate initiatives in support of JISC’s strategic priorities. Whilst deploying a variety of measures, the initiatives share similar characteristics in the types of engagement they promote: providing leadership and working with influencers.
e-Framework
The e-Framework is a joint initiative across JISC, Department for Education Science and Training (DEST) Australia, Ministry of Education, New Zealand and SURF Foundation, Netherlands. Focussing on service oriented approaches, the initiative seeks to facilitate technical interoperability across education and research, through improved strategic planning and implementation processes.
Knowledge Exchange
The Knowledge Exchange is a European initiative seeking to promote an ‘open layer of scholarly and scientific content, to be freely available on the Internet’. Current membership of the Knowledge Exchange is Danish Electronic Research Library (DEFF), German Research Foundation (DFG) and SURF Foundation, Netherlands.