Anil Dash (first employee at SixApart (movabletype), long time blogger).
Milestone â thereâs a blog on the White House website. Made statement that federal govât interest and use of new media â most interesting startup 2009. So then he set out to make it true.
Govât picks experts, brings them in, listens to them for a bit in a closed door session, and then they go home. How can this be done more transparently using online tools. Expert Labs â part of AAAS.
ends up being really
Govât bureaucracy has huge impact on science and technology innovation and use. Needs to be some translation.
Weâve spent a lot of effort on opening up science, put information online, and make it available â then what happens? What is the goal weâre trying to enable? Implications of open publishing and how that changes society? Will what gets done with open access/open science be a matter of hoping for the best or can we help shape what happens?
Across the spectrum â things about getting data out there â Sunlight Foundation, Data.gov, PLoS, National Lab Day.
Get the data to us, weâll do the analysis â donât just give us the ground beef (to paraphrase Dorothea, which he didnât)
He believes that within 2-3 years govât sponsored data will be open access. (iâll take a bet on that, unfortunately).
q from science sofa â how to find experts, how do you judge expertise
a: donât provide credentials, looking at the web at successful communities that also support diversity. what if we let in the rabble â if we have a community that works well, it will help organize and compile a lot of responses to a few prevailing opinions. Also, a lot of the questions actually have answers â we just need help connecting to them.
q: why not limit experts to editors of sci journals
me: WHAT??? a: well not all the questions are about science, we have an obligation of being inclusive.
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