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7 years ago This session was not accepted by the Open Science space. Thank you for your submission. I hope we will hear from you again next year.
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arlissc
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7 years ago This session was not accepted by the Open Science space. Thank you for your submission. I hope we will hear from you again next year.
[ ID ] 40a478f3-f278-47e0-9136-b225e6a1613f
[ Submitter's Name ] James Littlejohn [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Dsensor.org [ Submitter's Twitter ] @aboynejames
[ Space ] science [ Secondary Space ] exhibit
[ Format ] learning-lab
Description
The session will allow complete beginners or those with some knowledge of bitcoin to gain an understanding of blockchain technology and how this can be applied to the practice of science.
The session will cover both the technical cryptography in a reachable way for none mathematicians and balanced with a discussion of the social or cultural changes this revolutionary technology is making.
From this starting knowledge a case will be presented on why an immutable ledger or blockchain will benefit the practice of open science and how this opens up the opportunity to design new 'peer' review/consensus mechanisms to keep science honest, transparent and guarantee reproducibility.
Agenda
The main delivery style will be a presentation with slides divided into 4 segments. For each segment the participants will be split into small groups representing different roles. Segment 1, the creation of a blockchain, maths/mining, payment, investors. For each task a challenge will be set to illustrate the concepts involved. e.g a math problems to solve for proof of work. Segment 2 A social discussion. Segment 3 self organized creation of an open or citizen science experiment team and the use of a 'science blockchain'. Segment 4 pulling it all together/ Q&A.
Participants
With three participants we would go through each segment and the various roles in a sequential manner rather than splitting up the discussion.
For fifteen, three groups of 5 will be formed and those teams can be mixed for each of the four segments.
For a larger group, then for example; for segment one we could have a multiple mining teams and thus bring in the spirit of competition that bitcoin uses to illustrate that concept. In other segments the team roles can be duplicated, just like in a real distributed science experiment.
Outcome
A small community is starting to form around building a blockchain specifically for the practice of scientific inquiry. http://www.scienceblockchainlab.org/ It is hoped some of the participants would want to join this project and contribute thinking, write/design features and properties, write software code or help mange or govern the project.