Recent years have seen technological revolutions in informatics, communications, and the life sciences. Xconomy readers are deeply engaged with these trends, but may be unaware of the most important development of all, the transition (sometimes painful), to an Open Science system better suited for a global, networked, knowledge economy. Sadly, rapid technical progress has thus … Continue reading “The Open Science Shift”
Author: Joseph Jackson
Joseph Jackson is a philosopher, entrepreneur, activist, and organizer in the Open Science Movement. He is CEO of Lava-Amp, a company building a very inexpensive hardware platform for portable PCR, ideal for use in developing countries and in biology education. He is also co-founder of Biocurious.org, the first Bay Area community lab for citizen science.