[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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