A large-scale initiative by the government of India to create “telecentres” in villages throughout
the country created a need for training materials to support hundreds of thousands of future telecentre
managers. The Mission 2007 Training Commons initiative was established to develop OERs to meet
this need. Training Commons sought to use a collaborative, open content approach that draws on the
expertise of existing trainers in order to develop curriculum materials that are free, accessible online, and
easily adapted. The aim of this case study is to understand and document the practices, processes,
successes, and challenges of the partnership and the content development, and to assess the overall
impact on stakeholders—including the trainers who use the materials, the managers (or trainees) who
participate in the telecentre trainings, and importantly, the external open content community, which