Archive:Discussion 1: Access to Research and Education

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SJ Klein, One Laptop per Child

 * First Presenter, SJ Klein, OLPC
 * Working toward free content for the laptop and beyond...


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Steve Foerster, WikiEducator

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John Wilbanks, Science Commons

 * The visible arm of culture is the remix, and this is really good. However, there are unintended consequences of incompatible licensing--these produce negative network effects down the road.


 * In science, IP is not an issue--this physical stuff needs to move around just like papers do â€“ moving knowledge around as fast as possible is the real issue.


 * we need to take the charge and demand that universities have open repositories, that professors and students share-we need to ask these questions to our faculty


 * we are seeing a completely open access knowledge management system being built before our eyes in the life sciences


 * when someone does get it rightâ€”technically, socially â€“ we need to be able to have the correct tools set up to support it!


 * wilkin â€“ without a patent, there will be no drug
 * put the knowledge & data together to share so we can make the research cheaper and get drugs out faster â€“ patents don't get in the way of research


 * patents may extract poisonous rents, but are often not the main concern--pharmaceutical companies need to jack up the price of the patents to make up for all the drugs that they've missed on â€“ the real problem is in the data sharing for the testing


 * rio framework for open science â€“ on icommons website
 * berlin declaration on open access
 * Budapest declaration on open access


 * ask questions!
 * ask professors why their papers are not online