From fragmented policies to open knowledge ecosystems

What if Open Educational Resources, Open Access, Open Data and Free and Open-Source Software were not treated as separate approaches, but as connected parts of one open knowledge ecosystem? This would allow knowledge to move more freely across systems, institutions and communities and be accessed, adapted and shared by more people.

As artificial intelligence reshapes how knowledge is created, accessed, shared and reused, this connection is becoming even more important. AI makes it possible to work with knowledge at an unprecedented scale, but it also makes the openness, quality, provenance, accessibility and governance of that knowledge increasingly consequential.

The question, therefore, is how to build an enabling ecosystem in which openness is embedded across the knowledge of lifecycle, from creation and publication to access, adaptation and reuse.

This challenge was at the center of the training session “Policy into Practice: Embedding Openness Across the Knowledge Lifecycle,” organized by UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) on 8 September during Digital Learning Week 2026. Bringing together some 80 participants, the session explored what an Open Solutions approach can mean in practice: connecting policies, infrastructures and communities, and translating openness into coherent governance and concrete institutional action.

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