About Open Source

Community-based open source collaboration has revolutionized innovation across many fields and sectors – including IT, multiple areas of science and technology, energy, transportation, industry, agriculture. It is a powerful force multiplier where the sum of contributed code and other support is far greater than the sum of its parts. It is the key to creating large-scale public goods such as the Human Genome and the Linux Operating system which have benefited billions of people.

OSCAR will provide an environment where competing organizations can work together on developing the "pre-competitive" layer of technology and standards from which they all benefit. This prevents "wheel re-invention" and frees up resources to accelerate innovation.

Community based open source development is particularly suited to fields in early development, when patterns of competition (which exists in the A/R arena not only between private sector players but also academic and non-profit organizations) can impede market progress by sowing confusion and slowing crucial standards development. This is the current state of adaptation and resilience methodologies and models, particularly related to nature-based solutions.