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Stimulus funds for open science?
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:02:52 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Larry Press <lpress () csudh edu> Date: April 30, 2009 11:25:00 AM EDT To: "dave () farber net" <dave () farber net> Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com> Subject: Stimulus funds for open science? Dave,James Boyle, Professor of Law at Duke University, suggests that some Internet stimulus funds should go toward facilitating open science rather than building infrastructure.
Two excerpts from his Financial Times column (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/501df49e-2f7c-11de-a8f6-00144feabdc0.html):"What we ought to be doing is trying to understand where the architecture of information in our society has been a success, where government investment has yielded remarkable social and economic benefit. We can study the reasons for the absolutely stunning success of the internet, and try extend that success, that model of network design, into places that it currently doesn’t reach."
..."imagine a scientific research process that worked as efficiently as the web does for buying shoes. Then imagine what economic growth a faster, leaner, and more open scientific research environment might generate."
Larry Press PS -- He is wrong to downplay the need for new infrastructure. ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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