[sc-discuss] Open Participatory Research
Sören Auer
auer at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Wed Jul 16 09:47:26 EDT 2008
Hi all,
Shouldn't more efficient web-enabled scientific research (as it is the
aim of science commons) start with the funding of science? In the last
weeks I was talking with several people involved in science funding and
they seemed to be pretty interested in the idea of creating an
*prediction market [1] for research ideas* in order to identify the most
promising approaches for funding.
In order to advance this project, attract supporters and thus finally
convince decision makers in research funding an politics we have set up
a web site at:
<http://wiki.cofundos.org>
I would be very happy to receive your comments on the Participatory
Research concept and of course support statements at [2]. I'm especially
interested in views from different disciplines (e.g. Chemistry, Biology,
Social Sciences etc.), since the Participatory Research concept is
currently pretty much influenced by our Computer Science perspective.
Sören
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market
[2] http://wiki.cofundos.org/Supporters
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