Who's responsible for sustainability and impact?
Session Overview
This session will offer a lively debate about who is responsible for sustaining JISC project innovations and ensuring their impact: JISC Innovation? JISC Advance? Projects? Originating institution(s)? Suppliers? Inspired individuals? Entrepreneurs? The drivers and barriers to sustainability will also be discussed.
Chair David Rose will set the scene, then` each panellist will briefly advocate their viewpoint and experience of sustainability and impact to the audience, from the worlds of JISC content, systems and new process projects. The audience will be encouraged to come up with questions and their own experience to challenge these perspectives, fuelling the debate. Panel members’ views will be made available prior to the session. The session with conclude by considering how JISC can help overcome the barriers identified and promote sustainability.
The session will be documented and outcomes will be fed into the development of a JISC Sustainability and Impact Toolkit, allowing the fruits of this session to be sustained too.
Session Chair
David Rose, Senior Consultant, JISC CETIS
Panel
- Catherine Grout, JISC Programme Director (e-Content)
- John Burke, JISC Infonet
- Wilbert Kraan, Assistant Director of JISC CETIS
- Les Carr, Technical Director of ePrints