What can consortia do to encourage Open Science?

Question

Consortia bring together researchers from different institutions to work on specific issues for a defined period of time under a somewhat unified legal framework. What can they do to move Open Science forward?

Comments

There is a blog post on this topic at http://renci.org/blog/nature-article-looks-at-consortia-as-a-key-to-kickstarting-open-science/ , which refers to a paper that looks into the role of consortia for open science: https://doi.org/10.1038/543615a .