Proposal Open Access
ScientistFive
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <resource xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4" xsi:schemaLocation="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4 http://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-4.1/metadata.xsd"> <identifier identifierType="DOI">10.5281/zenodo.14969</identifier> <creators> <creator> <creatorName>ScientistFive</creatorName> <affiliation>Free Scientist</affiliation> </creator> </creators> <titles> <title>Agora: A proposal to overcome the limitations of the current knowledge creation process</title> </titles> <publisher>Zenodo</publisher> <publicationYear>2015</publicationYear> <subjects> <subject>Knowldege creation process, novel tools, cryptography, future markets, dynamic publications</subject> </subjects> <dates> <date dateType="Issued">2015-02-10</date> </dates> <resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Text">Proposal</resourceType> <alternateIdentifiers> <alternateIdentifier alternateIdentifierType="url">https://zenodo.org/record/14969</alternateIdentifier> </alternateIdentifiers> <rightsList> <rights rightsURI="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</rights> <rights rightsURI="info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess">Open Access</rights> </rightsList> <descriptions> <description descriptionType="Abstract"><p>Agora: A proposal to overcome the limitations of the current knowledge creation process<br /> =======================================================================================</p> <p>By Scientistsfive<br /> (scientistsfive@mailbox.org)</p> <p>Abstract: The knowledge creation process is broken and can be improved by a combination of currently emerging tools.</p> <p>The rationale for this proposal is the notion that the current scientific process is not optimal:</p> <p>* Artificially staged competitions (grants, publications, theses):<br /> 1. &lsquo;system gamers&rsquo; are supported, not real scientists<br /> 2. do require lots of otherwise wasted efforts<br /> 3. the selecting quality of committees and peers is questionable<br /> 4. the average mean is supported, not the outliers that are good for the advancement of science<br /> 5. wrong cultures emerged and continue to exist<br /> 6. creative monopolies are destroyed</p> <p>* The publication and communication system is outdated:<br /> 1. only the tip of the iceberg of research projects is visible to the public<br /> 2. negative results are not being published<br /> 3. raw data is not being published<br /> 4. gate-keepers prevent access<br /> 5. results are being published late</p> <p>* Incentives are wrongly set:<br /> 1. bringing up faked, but buzzy results counts<br /> 2. being honest does not count<br /> 3. revolutionisers and innovators are blocked<br /> 4. it does not pay risking novel approaches</p> <p>* The patent system is broken:<br /> patents are not used anymore to incentivise innovators to publish ideas and innovations (to patent - from latin: to lay open)<br /> 1. it is a self-sustaining effort and money generating system<br /> 2. is used by companies to fight<br /> 3. it is used to increase the entrance barrier for competitors</p> <p>* It takes a very long time for innovators to be recognised and to be appreciated - and it might not pay</p> <p>* A huge overhead of<br /> administration exists<br /> &lsquo;protective&rsquo; measures (animal, workforce, environment etc) grew that are self-sustaining and failing their initial noble aim</p> <p>* The existence of intrinsically motivated scientists and the explorer nature of humans are ignored</p> <p>&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</p> <p>Most scientists will agree on the above mentioned statements and wish for a change. Still many will argue, that this is a very negative interpretation of an obviously working knowledge creation process (&lsquo;we have been to the moon&rsquo;). Digging too deep into this discussion, one ends up to ask what is best for humanity - the discussion will become very philosophical and cannot be finally solved, therefore - I will stick with the procedural impression that there is a better way to create new knowledge. And by doing so, I ll&nbsp; be able to continue with this proposal:</p> <p>Acknowledging the fact that a system change will need to set incentives immediately right and given the size of the required changes, only a &lsquo;new kid on the block&rsquo; will be able to achieve such a megalithic aim. The name for this concept could be Agora - the marketplace in the greek cities - known as the birthplace of democracy.</p> <p>To improve the knowledge creation process, the Agora system needs to achieve following goals:</p> <p>1. Being decentralised, be &lsquo;just there&rsquo;, under self control, no single point of failure<br /> 2. Provide the right incentives<br /> towards providing truth<br /> towards being open<br /> towards sharing<br /> 3. Support innovators and outliers<br /> 4. Support discourse, open-mindedness<br /> 5. Reduce unnecessary &lsquo;overhead&rsquo; workload<br /> 6. Provide innovators with the freedom to do what they think is good and if it is good<br /> 7. incentives them strongly and early<br /> 8. Provide a neatless integration into the current system<br /> 9. Allow the support of basic science as well as applied sciences</p> <p>Solution:</p> <p>The solution Agora will consist of an ideal combination of tools that are currently emerging in different facets and different fields, the concepts are overlapping and names are not precise:</p> <p>1. Blockchain decentralized databases (e.g. bitcoins)<br /> 2. Trust and value networks (e.g. Ripples, Ethereum)<br /> 3. Web 2.0 tools for scientists (social networks, open access publications, dynamic publications (e.g. GitHub), data repositories, wikis, blogs)<br /> 4. Cryptocurrencies<br /> 5. Cryptography (hashing, signing, etc.)<br /> 6. Future markets (betting)<br /> 7. Crowdfunding<br /> 8. Anonymous publications, multiple online identities, &hellip;<br /> 9. Whistle blowing platforms</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><br /> Personal remarks:</p> <p>* Past already told us many times that all big things looked a bit weird in their beginnings - future will tell. The problem is to find the right time point in the future to look back and to decide :)<br /> * Obviously this proposal is lacking concrete implementation steps - but, lets appreciate its value: for the first time, these mentioned concepts were interpreted as a potential solution to faults in the knowledge creation process. Its implementation and defining &lsquo;ideal&rsquo; is certainly a far road to march &hellip;<br /> &lsquo;implementations of ideas&rsquo; should be honoured - but without ideas there is no implementation &hellip;<br /> * We will continue to work on ideas for implementation and to publish this proposal in more accessible (and currently appreciated) ways and so on &hellip;<br /> Furthermore, since this proposal is very vague it will not be used in the future to claim inventor ship of any real implementation of any of these tools. &lsquo;Inventorship&rsquo; in the current sense so...</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----</p> <p>mQINBFTZaBgBEADUkG6nzCXQvv+PkmeUG2wyHkB8o9YSMYYj9G4JpgCxdto2IGCE<br /> /mMrQ4wDJh60nHsoK8Ap9Vl8YhTD5WJm71TOkUwQMHAXH+xAPcDHjRwqZCI3ss9q<br /> w/mypNhI+jLmiVf8ARsMMuRYw++7IP02dmMUFrL4DSonu62zdRSqH6WQF4ayLCb+<br /> tGiWH1JmWmKjF27ac8CGCkEqTv5KiuvY0FinyLJBbXKeR7cbAA/LOQYPlpaQksBL<br /> 9syrvHZKeAJnJRqYhrbknGuquSxq6OKRzwnP0mxm0lglbqRi+EOtzh8eDV/5RRnr<br /> stapxg8fAiJ2lUFKU/d/yzqCo8v9BhupQ+WKWljwKRraxshBtk+Mg0xd4qyowUYn<br /> a9GsP2rljqnjmcbMu4JAZtpy84oaAUHGyuS3tA79aDM9PKcmRdGRi3JxmqPjujkI<br /> phncJb8Rkix6DCGSiU9m3fZuf1ZABJgiQ02ANDC4ZPbFUHO/9YJdTonEIUCdMGGT<br /> PIpvLdoUlprvAWChB+Mrccspl7709AigEKhbJkDcjYR940KHVnDS5cY97/OMrbtM<br /> rRvM0SD708+9FoS6kAiGxMoTC00NvZlkiWcaFak8BAUQ1JW6zHnNUajoaXoqBba+<br /> qvDESvioyksf2R0aGv4NFxWfLaNUTELKIpuvlhAp/AwWTQS+zraAXef47QARAQAB<br /> tCtTY2llbnRpc3RzRml2ZSA8c2NpZW50aXN0c2ZpdmVAbWFpbGJveC5vcmc+iQI3<br /> BBMBCgAhBQJU2WgYAhsDBQsJCAcDBRUKCQgLBRYCAwEAAh4BAheAAAoJED7VL90g<br /> O+NBDZQP/Rk5P1K3N1D8t7uySAo6BzoM/np5qVMJWtPhoE5d6OmmJdJ8dV1LzeRd<br /> iE3a+kKCHBkuYjrgFlOXBsDEqrftxzZlVAfPFI2TBigCBgxwXoroHlAhdVHBuUfI<br /> KnYczLL/A7vs0q/fOJAcTvJpmPwmxZaHavKaK7o/T9A+L8r2V+PFkNRw4RA3UjqY<br /> W1+Drf5LzUKEGJ+iUox+MbDYTDVHIjsoQLMDM2Y+gszS77MZDx0FVWA9dAf3MT7O<br /> hAM9Db4KvmeKxchdFae589BUnw+686EV4f68mPaN+3jxGk9OOZ4JkksYL6gCsK1x<br /> Xz6oV40PC6sU/dVMeP6oGJPArywpDJnJcm0ub91lGm81JhVp0GP8rgbq9sy/9wr6<br /> 2lMsN07TMaNAT28K05Dc4Rq6rZY5PHCmeBmgdUjopRXFoTpOwbTqaZRalggNH8j2<br /> ERJnFtT5bmS+Ers3phSDbctiMQjsL6YFpESSnZwNmU8W1UQ4GAkku3ZQUVyv3l8D<br /> zXvFydMi82ozd/6OPJ5HnwWNNkyJ7mxPzp+5uDy3So/dJpHOTwQGFltJO86GKTvK<br /> m4iGuKC+n7qUMWpFJVKdB3Nw88xuPyrj4WrOuSPWNKkkFXBdeCoMWCeZv2gp5l9p<br /> AhwBkx9Xg7lb4N7elogF7hgkxqeKNehAtj5J3fLMGBkkLZ3NN84MuQINBFTZaBgB<br /> EAC6da2v+OnwRpJCQoS3FNEHgPleLDacuMsbXyMIRbr/1Kuv4REdItbu4BfDamGb<br /> IOoBY+4ZF8fGNl/f75U/kJfdiIUihVRH+Z2WxOcpHjea1rMRAe4UjScd5l8NHPPk<br /> OyFfZ2dilHAN4U+aXFIeOXGm0jguU0KV+73grzhbPh0QV2XQEqumJO5TzKgMu/vh<br /> B84sWa4IOhMVdJr22UcV4ZKry/2GtuOZONlgkRcWrZRM3+fyjKrm1WbpRtSIG42y<br /> 2JTx1QMP+ZTYTiInKQKEDsbX1R8/aOaNts5pGPgSBCCtKbFOMug32J0rBsLvSd2a<br /> 0QqWpF450Cy/akWb78XUOkv546rSukK76JyznA67IgWwGoixCD8xXp2bf8QLpNBZ<br /> bM10xeJQuVSNMOsTYg6LXeO+fqBbb/u3CO4XfiMcAmAim3ya4uDprifRvP0RSHJ4<br /> 8zU0L8xcPFHNASSYhgTTtUy75xSN1raYhcUSc492tPGE9PVa1MGrkQkzPf/U8FyB<br /> ga0/RJ01SH5XaT/qKFvUZxZkZItPChsC7Pjd/JJOmxzCI5nNJYNQ3yjhHlMHrsOU<br /> 5QtyatUV3oLl0kMn5WNPhyHx0HGlu9mEAcCl0qOxD/ZELQcZKNbhOMQL8I1xyHOs<br /> lbds06HpZC99u/f9LWOyHy+6tWLnKlzcPd3Z8UBukjjd6wARAQABiQIfBBgBCgAJ<br /> BQJU2WgYAhsMAAoJED7VL90gO+NBfgoQAJP4WRgx6C1ezFgjzU6qDH71rXM1yUuv<br /> i2KyT56bjG+ngkE6BBe8Dp/ac/GX2MhwUM81VJ3X2XWDvhSKcMvDiQX40l9QB4Kk<br /> 0sCd3sQ/J3QY2WJ4lC87IuXEGZFpisV773XbxN6eOP5oVnQBNLrAf1eTRqlP9yNv<br /> 5vNwfwYEyeja5FOc3+jxRBNjf5LK55/pGDwxIQzHD+6feo6LiwOBYB9YRvxmPBqI<br /> kHmQbJk9f3H0IbqeFAAN+W9TASOHk1DHDV8/JT33IoYVIOP2/Y692VGS98kgwPO8<br /> /ZaHw9wLdHmFOE3iXdS+W/ACYxmoHvR0f03sz407jz1VOV7CV7heUI3H3mwiXJfz<br /> yWfLklDLLN4E+Wq1+6cCoN2uWP1X25JQ9ZXDt3My7hVM9lUrrnP9ByDR3P2f9emg<br /> aYcFZoHTZ/ZMqhKtARXlgDU6jOEvSc6QVv8MOs/ecHC7qSY6fbg1My6uX/wN2ZT2<br /> UUM7puAUU49g5MMWqPES3//TjTTichx1seDPr6RxHMFIcHXO58vlwdS8/QSooRbo<br /> Ygxxw5x8vXvjeTmwBhXdYRW5c3eM7G1CulytLi7dHaqoKQuHPuwwTXLIB0fEbIYe<br /> CWuke6LOCqA+ti9btL55Mu6s5le7YceTg6l33xRfwYDYcIL+5/zRI56tkov6CBsF<br /> 8T6vMMwfzHcC<br /> =vt+I<br /> -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----</p> <p>&nbsp;</p></description> </descriptions> </resource>
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