[Insight-users] Open Science Summit 2010 : Unleashing the Open Science Revolution

[Luis Ibanez]

*   Open Science Summit 2010*

   July 29-31, 2010
   University of California, Berkeley <http://www.berkeley.edu/>


   http://opensciencesummit.com/


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The Open Science Summit is the first and only event to consider what happens
throughout the entire innovation chain as reform in one area influences the
prospects in others. In the best case scenario, a virtuous circle of
mutually reinforcing shifts toward transparency and collaboration could
unleash hitherto untapped reserves of human ingenuity.

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Open Access Journals have demonstrated a new path for publishing that
utilizes the power of the internet to instantly distribute ideas instead of
imposing artificial scarcity to prop up old business models.

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Imagine a vastly accelerated research, development, and commercialization
cycle using an entire Open Innovation process from start to finish. In both
commercial and academic labs, scientists would log results using Open
Protocols such as Open Wetware.

In the next stage, scientists submit to Open Access journals—but the process
of peer review would be ongoing as “real time publication” allowed
researchers to transform results into a publication along a continuum that
ranged from initial reports to rough drafts to final submissions. A paper
would never be “finished” as critique and response would be ongoing long
after publication.

New, sophisticated reputation “feedback” algorithms (like those powering
Ebay or Amazon but optimized for science), supplant the old static journal
model.


This is already emerging to a limited extent with tentative forays into
social networking software for science and post publication commentary
experiments such as PLoS One. Young post-docs, instead of laboring under a
stultifying grant system that rewards conservatism and incrementalism,
pitting researchers against each other for an artificially limited number of
spots, could simultaneously compete and collaborate with others around the
globe, using platforms such as that being developed by India’s Open Source
Drug Discovery Foundation.

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Work done on open source projects would allow young researchers to build
prestige, without regard to traditional hierarchy

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Next, research tools would be widely shared and disseminated, not hidden
behind industrial secrecy or priced out of reach via an exclusive license.
Platform “enabling technologies” in some of the world’s most important
fields would be maintained as a “protected commons.”

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   http://opensciencesummit.com/
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