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 -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Sören Auer, AKSW/Computer Science Dept., University of Leipzig http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~auer, Skype: soerenauer _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
