 Hi, this is Tania Hernandez. I am a research data analyst at Invest in Open Infrastructure, or IOI. In this video, I'm going to present an ongoing project at IOI that focuses on exploring funding for open infrastructure services. Let me start by briefly introducing the work of IOI. IOI is an initiative dedicated to increase the investment in an adoption of open infrastructure to further equitable access and participation in research. We advocate for open infrastructure to be the default in research and scholarship. We have a broad definition of open, including using open source technology, being community-governed and accountable, and supporting open science. At IOI, we follow a research-driven approach to provide tools for decision-makers to enact change. We also pilot solutions to increase the sustainability of the open infrastructure sector. One of our research projects is on understanding funding for open infrastructure services. We are particularly interested in finding data sources, documenting the quality of the data, and analyzing information to provide insights to decision-makers in the open infrastructure space. Having clarity on existing funding trends for open infrastructure services will allow us and others to better understand the areas in need of investment, as well as the opportunities to make such investments more reliable and sustainable. To collect and analyze data, we have been following an interactive research process. We started by identifying key stakeholders in the open infrastructure space. Specifically, we identified organizations that provide funding, such as grants, and organizations and initiatives that provide services, those that receive the funding in order to do so. From that list of stakeholders, we explored the funding information available on grant databases, annual reports, websites on funding, and any other financial disclosures. We compiled the information and compared data reported by funders and providers. The first assumption was that the data would match. In other words, that the data reported by funders and the data reported by providers will be consistent. But that was not the case. So we decided to focus only on the information reported by funders because funder information is often updated and published publicly online. We collected data from 2010 to 2020 on major open infrastructure services. With the funded data, we conducted an exploratory data analysis using exclusively the cash grants reported by funders. And I will briefly talk now about some of the findings. So we identified major funders in the open infrastructure space. There are at least five clear funders that each have provided over $5 million to open infrastructure services. We also found that funding amounts seem to be unpredictable over the 10-year analysis. This may be due to the complexities of reporting multi-year grants, but also to changes in the leading funders and the funding allocation per year. We also found different profiles of funders. Some of them contribute to open infrastructure services with few grants but high investments. And others prefer to support various services allocating less funding to those. We also observed that some open infrastructure services have received several cash grants from the same funders, which tell us that there are some strong relationships between some funders and recipient providers. Well, now the meat of the presentation. Funding data has several complexities, as you can imagine. By analyzing a funder cash grants data, we identified several limitations and also opportunities to improve the data and the analysis. First, data is incomplete. The time frames of the grants and their revised total amounts may be inaccurate given the lack of standards among funders to report grants. Second, by focusing only on cash grants, we did not account for other support types, such as in-kind donations and non-monetary support. Third, we can only analyze the funding that has been disclosed and that can be verified. We think this information is an incomplete picture of the reality. Fourth, we included information of funders in different countries. For that reason, the total funding amounts may be slightly inaccurate given the currency conversions to US dollars. Lastly, we also recognize that there are other important elements to consider when we talk about funding for open infrastructure services, such as the nature of the calls, open versus invited calls, the way in which funders assess services and how they prioritize areas of investment and how providers use the funding that they receive. Well, if you are interested to know more about this research, please check the funding trends report that presents some of the preliminary observations and findings and the data set called reported funding data for open infrastructure. I will share those links on the CSV channels. We will also appreciate your help providing feedback to our ongoing exploration. I will also share the survey to provide that feedback. And we welcome feedback on both areas, the research design and also the potential sources of data. Thank you so much again for the opportunity to present IOI ongoing research At IOI, we also welcome collaboration opportunities on funding data. So you have here my email and the email of the research team. We are eager to continue the conversation over email. Bye. Thank you so much.