Citizen Competitions: Building an Information Commons

Citizen Competitions: Building an Information Commons
Sage Bionetworks - Hyatt Regency
Citizen led collaborative competitions, requires citizens to be directly involved in networked approaches to solving biological problems such as finding the causes of disease, discovering new therapies and identifying who should be given which drug. Citizen science requires new modes of communication and collaboration that go beyond traditional paradigms. It also requires nontraditional funding strategies. This session will detail existing and emerging collaborative ‘challenge projects’ being developed by Sage Bionetworks, METABRIC, Norway Radium Hospital, IBM, and Google."