New Tools for Science Policy
The Illusion of Average: An Open Science Approach to Research
Improving Scientific Research in the Age of Personalization and Open Data
In a new program for the Fall 2016 New Tools series, we are hosting three seminars that explore the future of scientific research as it confronts enormous challenges and discovers promising new opportunities.
About the Seminar
September 23, 2016 8:30am—10:30am
Talk 2: When the Differences Matter: an Open Science Approach in an Age of Individualization
Public participation for science or advocacy has an inconsistent history of effectiveness. New tools for crowdsourcing and challenge platforms have unflattering track records, revealing the current limits of technologies to enable the centralization or decentralization of power and influence. Local expertise can be harnessed toward a new reality in which communities provide feedback on their own conditions. When challenges arise, publics equipped with new tools can legitimately participate by studying their circumstances, testing alternatives for improving their communities, and advocating for the actions that best reflect their current values. Further, these strategies can be tailored to local realities to increase the likelihood of successful adoption and implementation. There are many examples of how open innovation is changing conversations with participatory infrastructures:
- When data are open, more values are supported, and alternatives can be explored.
- Publics can collect and process data to focus attention on locally relevant problems.
- Publics are local experts who provide distributed context and situational awareness.
- Publics ask unique questions that can be locally tested with quantified self, agile science, and small data methods.
- Crowdsourcing can be a form of advocacy, as demonstrated in the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.
Taken together, these opportunities highlight the shifting role of non-scientists from receiving “answers” to, instead, shaping questions and supporting rigorous, contextualized research that can be fed back into a robust, curated knowledge base.
Talk 1: The Illusion of Average: Implications for Scientists
Talk 3: The Illusion of Average: Renewing Research Infrastructure
Location Information
ASU Washington Center
1834 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20009
RSVP: [email protected]
Speakers
Past Series
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December 13, 2019 8:30am
A New Global Model for Coastal Conservation
Jesse Senko
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April 26, 2019 8:30am
Gaming the Future
Lauren Withycombe Keeler
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May 28, 2019 8:30am
Empowering Communities to Shape the Future
Rae Ostman, Paul Martin
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March 18, 2019 8:30am
Project Confluence
Darshan Karwat
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February 18, 2019 8:30am
Rethinking Death in the Digital Era
Faheem Hussain
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December 10, 2018 8:30am
Bringing Public Perspectives into Energy Projects
Kirk Jalbert
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November 15, 2018 8:30am
Rethinking Law and Order: Navigating Citizen Rights in an Age of Uberveillance
Katina Michael
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October 25, 2018 8:30am
Connecting Public Engagement in Science Efforts Across Silos
Darlene Cavalier, Karen Peterson, Ben Wiehe
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October 09, 2018 3:00pm
Open House: The Future of Science Policy
Daniel Sarewitz, Elizabeth C. McNie, Roger A. Pielke Jr. , Ryan Meyer, Katina Michael