WOS 3 / Program / Panels / Free Content / Free Science II. Funding and Activism
Opening Speeches Opening Keynote Free Software Free Software in the Public Sector Free Software Economics Free Software & Quality Management Free Video Software Free Privacy Enhancing Technologies Open Archives I. Emulators Beyond the Unix Paradigm? Free Content CC I. Launch of Creative Commons Germany CC II. Creative Commons Summit Wikipedia and Friends Free Science I. Publishing Free Science II. Funding and Activism Art as Anticopright Activism Open Archives II. Games Globalization of Free Knowledge Cultures Globalization I. Globalization II. Internet Freedom goes East I. Internet Freedom goes East II. WSIS: Globalization of Civil Society Free Infrastructures Keynote on Peer-to-Peer Free Standards Free Wireless Networks Free Search Engines Copyrights Alternative Compensation Systems The Future of the Digital Commons Free Science II. Funding and Activism Saturday, 12 June 2004, 10:00, Track 1 + Workshop, 12 June 2004, 17:00 'Openness' and 'Freedom' in their various aspects are basic requirements for science to function at all. 'Freedom' in this perspective translates into open access to published results as well as into open access to primary data and processing methods. 'Open' may also be taken as a synonym of transparent, fair and efficient means for assuring quality as well as for assessing impact of scientific work. Traditional methods of scientific work, publication and self-organization have not always been sufficiently geared towards this overall objective of 'open' practice and this has resulted in what is today being regarded as a serious crisis in scientific communication and publication. This second Free Science panel is concerned with free access to primary data as well as with the alternative framework and funding schemes required to make 'open' strategies economically viable. An additional aspect of 'freedom' is the use of open, transparent technical means for scientific practice and publication as well as for providing access to results -- this aspect does not need to be explicitly covered within this particular panel, since it is an overspanning aspect of the WOS conference. Mod: Stefan Gradmann Head, Hamburg University Information Management unit, Hamburg Tim Hubbard Head, Human Genome Analysis group at the Sanger Centre & Team Leader, Ensembl genome database project, Cambridge, UK James Love Director Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech), Center for Study of Responsive Law (CSRL), Washington, DC Benny Haerlin Save Our Seeds (SOS), Zukunftsstiftung Landwirtschaft, Berlin Discussion

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