The goal of the Digital Marketplace (DMP) initiative is to enable the effective distribution of network-based digital goods and resources in support of the California State University (CSU) academic programs. This is based on the growing need to effectively acquire, share, market, and distribute commercial and non-commercial digital learning content and resources within the institutional environment; and to integrate the content within instructional programs.
The Digital Marketplace Project
The objectives of the Digital Marketplace initiative are to:
* Act as a collaborative function to provide leverage with vendors for campus academic technology products and services, resulting in reduced costs through "volume" negotiations with vendors.
* Provide a one-stop, web-based service for the selection, contribution, sharing, approval, procurement and distribution of no-cost and cost-based academic technology products and service, resulting in the coordinated development and delivery of academic technology products and services on a systemwide basis.
* Reliably and securely manage the digital rights and usage of academic technologies.
Open Knowledge Initiative
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