Activities

One - Identify potential use case communities

OA governance will maintain an openly published list of existing and potential new use case communities, which will be informed by:

1. Policy and evidence library - OA governance will maintain a library of policy analysis of different sectors, and MEL evidence built up from existing use case communities.

2. OA community input - the OA community can propose potential use case communities through the Use case community suggestion form.

Potential use case communities will be presented to the AEF which will allow:

• other members of the OA community to register interest where possible.

• OA governance to prioritise resources and support using a standardised decision-making matrix.

Two - convene use case communities

Once a viable use case community has been identified, the following steps will be taken to catalyse it:

For new communities:

1. Identify stakeholders

2. Engage with these stakeholders and provide a means for them to register their interest

3. Hold a kick-off meeting

4. Agree the governance and accountability structure

Where a community already exists:

1. Engage with the community to establish their existing model

2. Identify any stakeholder gaps and, where required, invite targeted stakeholders to join the community and/or provide a means for additional stakeholders to register interest in the community

3. Hold a scoping meeting to establish points of contact and ways of working

Make-up of use case communities

Use case communities can be made up from:

• Organisations both within the OA community and/or outside the OA community. Involving organisations from outside the current OA community enables the OA community to grow, which should help it become more sustainable

• Organisations with fixed/closed membership, or with open membership

• Organisations in overlap with members of the AEF, W3C or SC or independently

Responsibilities

Engage and convene responsibility chart