Hacking the Ivory Tower: Towards Lab Equipment as a Common Good re:publica 18, Berlin May 2-4, Stage 4, 05/02/2018 - 17:15 - 18:15 Short thesis The idea of Open Science is to enable more people to make valuable contributions to scientific research and develop solutions collectively, especially in low-resource settings. Due to pricey lab equipment much research output has been restricted to a few highly funded laboratories. In countries like Egypt and Cameroon, innovators and scientists are fixing, hacking and recreating tools using digital fabrication. Discuss with us Open Science Hardware and laboratory equipment as a common good. Description In this session, we will focus on hardware and software solutions, tools and services, resources and projects that adopt the Open Source approach and have one goal: to increase the access to scientific research. We present initiatives and visionaries putting this into action in different regional contexts who will discuss their insights, practical knowledge and experience. What can science learn from hacker culture, which methods and principles can be shared? What impact would this kind of junction have on individual academics? How can digital tools help the global scientific community to promote the growth of knowledge worldwide? Part of the panel are The Gathering for Open Science Hardware, a community of developers and scientists who support the growth of knowledge through global access to hardware for science; openeuroscience.com, a network for Open Science projects; the Open Research Lab for Emerging Technologies, as well as the mobile lab approach developed by the Cairo Hackerspace. Speakers: - Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou, APSOHA (Association for the Promotion of Open Science in Haiti & Africa) Jenny Molloy, Co-organiser Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH) Tarek Omar, Director Cairo Hackerspace Lucy Patterson, Co-organiser Science Hack Day Berlin Moderator: Dr. Johanna Havemann, Global Innovation Gathering (GIG) >> https://18.re-publica.com/en/session/hacking-ivory-tower-towards-lab-equipment-common-good This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

1. Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou
Jenny Molloy
Tarek Omar
Lucy Patterson
Moderator: Jo Havemann
Hacking the Ivory Tower:
Towards Lab Equipment as a Common Good

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