John Wilbanks’ Understanding of Open Science

Open might mean public domain, or liberal licensing, or just not withholding. Open needs to be reconciled with privacy (an under-acknowledged challenge). And it needs technical infrastructure, policy infrastructure, boundary organizations, and new norms to flourish.

As a senior fellow at FasterCures, chief commons officer at Sage Bionetworks, data commons expert and advocate John Wilbanks aims to advance the conversation about the term "Open Science" and its different facets. (Read more...)