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Communia-The European Thematic Network on the Digital Public Domain

The COMMUNIA Thematic Network aims at becoming a European point of reference for theoretical analysis and strategic policy discussion of existing and emerging issues concerning the public domain in the digital environment.

http://www.communia-project.eu/

Open Research Society (ORS)

The Open Research Society (ORS) is a Non Governmental - Non for Profit Organization (NGO) based in Athens Greece and is operating all over the world. Based on volunteer offer ORS intends to play a role at international level promoting OPEN LEARNING, OPEN KNOWLEDGE, OPEN RESEARCH and motivating people to participate. Having as vision ‘a better world for all based on knowledge and learning' the ORS has formulated four significant objectives based on the need to provide a sustainable worldwide knowledge vision, the need to investigate the organizational and cultural frameworks as well as infrastructures enabled by by the evolution of information technologies, the need to anchor government policies in scientific evidence and the need to investigate the key priorities of the knowledge society in terms of critical aspects of human life (e.g. health, education, culture, science, business etc).

Among the projects initiated by the ORS is the promotion of open research journals and open editions in various domains and scientific fields.