Perfect! What students do you have? What are you teaching? How can we leverage this to drive more traction to these sites and movement?
"By democratizing science it gives power back to the people to decide on what they want the scientific community to study. "
Exactly! Yes.
I study neuroscience/human biology. I am also a co-founder of an NGO called Global Education Movement (check it out on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GEMovement/) which aims to revolutionise education and make high quality education accessible to everyone. In GEM we believe education has become too institutionalised and it needs to be brought back to the people (i will write a post on this in the upcoming days). In general, i think any project in education/science which tries to bring power back to the people needs to involve academics who are fed up with the system (and trust me, there are many of them). Have you been working on anything regarding this? Or more of an idea you have been playing around with?
Yes!! Thank you! (For being part of a solution that is :) )
I look forward to your post! I checked out a bit of GEMovement, on facebook! I love it. Solid concept and it looks like it's gaining traction. I am following and can't wait to see it develop further.
I absolutely have been working on solving this issue for myself! My approach (one that I'm passionate about) of decentralizing science (and knowledge as a whole) is to create tools to better understand ourselves, for ourselves (so we don't need other institutions to tell us). That is my idea of true decentralization :)
I have been applying and developing alternative strategies for decision making and methods for us to better understand the world ourselves.
I just started a series on decision making. How I Learned To Make Decisions! A Framework For Decision Making to Decide a Better lIfe (Step 1)
It's one of the many tools I hope to share and better develop to help us better understand our world :) I would love some feedback if you have any, as these tools are open-source :)
This is essentially my purpose on Steem and my blog. To share methods that empower us!
Thanks for following us! And I will be following you too :)! and cant wait for the series on decision making to develop. And i am super happy to see that other people also see that science needs to be decentralised! to create tools to better understand ourselves, for ourselves (so we don't need other institutions to tell us). That is my idea of true decentralization I definitely agree!