[IP] Stimulus funds for open science?

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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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.





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