Any global, regional or national body or organization providing the political or financial conditions or resources for, or encouraging or promoting excellence in open educational practices through policy making, providing funding, research, lobbying or technical developments.  

Institutions with policy of encouraging open educational practices through provision of resources, time allocation and support for development of OER, sharing of knowledge, peer review, training courses, participation in research and development, and which motivate professionals through internal recognition, and requiring standards to be adhered to in terms of openness and sharing of work.  

Learning professionals producing OER, sharing their work, and actively involved in peer review, possibly also motivating and inspiring colleagues, and where they successfully incorporate student feedback and imbue their students with an understanding and appreciation of openness which involves their students reworking, repositioning and publishing their own work.