[open-science] looking for high-impact success stories of open science

Thu Jan 10 18:14:11 UTC 2013

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 4:40 PM, david osimo <david.osimo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all, thanks again for all your input last year. As you might remember
> we've finalized a study on Open Science for the European Commission.
> It turned out to have quite an impact and we're supposed to give a
> high-profile presentation in 2 weeks with top decision makers in EU.
>

Fantastic. This is really exciting

> Because of this policy impact, I could not yet share the results with you.
> Hope to do it soon.
>

Understood.  Anything you can feed back to the world will be really
valuable. Success stories of politicians believing in Open are fantastic.

>
> Anyway, for this next presentation, I'm compiling a list of success
> stories of science 2.0. We look for inspiring scientific advances enabled
> by:
> - open access
> - open data
> - open code / reproducible science
> - other collaboration tools such as wiki, blogs, etc
>
> It would be great if you could help finalizing this compilation. we could
> really make a small difference in EU policies on this topic.
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aq7ILf5BATiJdHBzZ3JDdjRaTGtmQUE0M3gtSHVfZ1E
>
> By the way: why don't we build opensciencestories.org?
>

Great idea! Joris, are you the right person to involve in this?

>
> Best
> david
>
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