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Open Society Foundations (OSF), formerly the Open Society Institute, is a US-based grantmaking network founded by business magnate George Soros. [2] Open Society Foundations financially supports civil society groups around the world, with the stated aim of advancing justice, education, public health and independent media.
Open Society Institute-Baltimore was the only US field office of Open Society Foundations. It operated for 25 years, founded in 1998 and permanently closed in 2023. [ 1 ] The staff and Advisory Board were based in Baltimore and all of its activities were focused locally.
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The Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) is a public statement of principles relating to open access to the research literature, [1] which was released to the public on February 14, 2002. [2] It arose from a convening in Budapest organized by the Open Society Institute on December 1–2 2001 to promote open access, which at that time was also ...
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Open society (French: société ouverte) is a term coined by French philosopher Henri Bergson in 1932, [1] [2] and describes a dynamic system inclined to moral universalism. [3] Bergson contrasted an open society with what he called a closed society, a closed system of law, morality or religion. Bergson suggests that if all traces of ...
Aryeh Neier (born April 22, 1937) [1] is an American human rights activist who co-founded Human Rights Watch, [2] served as the president of George Soros's Open Society Institute philanthropy network from 1993 to 2012, [3] had been National Director of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1970 to 1978, and he was also involved with the creation of the group SDS [4] [5] by being directly ...
George Mark Malloch Brown, Baron Malloch-Brown [b] KCMG PC (born 16 September 1953) is a British diplomat, communications consultant, journalist and former politician serving as president of Open Society Foundations since 2021, having previously served as Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations under Kofi Annan from April to December 2006.