Goals
Our service goals are to help communities in research and education be more…
Accelerate the ability to create and share interactive knowledge internally and externally. Make community workflows more productive and efficient so that users can ask questions and share results more effectively.
Make interactive computing accessible to a diverse range of global communities. Broaden participation in knowledge creation and sharing across the world, particularly from marginalized communities.
Build a financially sustainable and globally scalable service. Use our resources to support and grow the open source communities that we partner with to support a healthy open ecosystem.
Principles
Our service principles help communities trust us as stewards of critical scientific workflows.
Our infrastructure should be transparent and modular so that it respects the community’s Right to Replicate.
Our platform gives communities agency to design the service they need, and to manage it without 2i2c if they wish.
Our participatory service model ensures we maximize our impact and keeps our incentives aligned with community needs.
We empower communities to share and learn.
Interactive computing hubs provide access to standardized workflows that make it easier for community members to teach and share with one another, and to enhance their work together.
We build on an ecosystem of open tools, standards, and services to enable the lifecycle of knowledge creation
Building with flexible, modular, and open technology allows us to re-use the same components for many community workflows. This allows us to build community-centric infrastructure in a scalable way.
We make open source tools more impactful for research and education
Our global network gives us a unique perspective to identify high-impact improvements to open source tools. We collaborate with open source communities to make upstream enhancements, and re-deploy the improved tools to the communities in our network.
Our values
Our values are crucial to accomplishing our goals in a way that is equitable and accessible to all.
Here are some of the core values underlying 2i2c:
- 2i2c values fairness and justice as requirements for successful communities.
- 2i2c values learning and discovery for all people.
- 2i2c values collaborating and connecting to foster environments for learning and discovery.