[okfn-discuss] Open Participatory Research

Wed Jul 16 02:16:04 UTC 2008

Hi all,

A while ago I was already reporting here about our Cofundos.org project 
for managing end-user driven open-source software development. Our 
ultimate aim, however, is to explore new ways of open, stakeholder 
driven research funding and Cofundos is just an initial step into this 
direction.

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.

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 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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