VIDEO COMING SOON. Are researchers ready to share their data? The panelists will discuss the advantages of sharing data openly as well as the practical implications for researchers, particularly those who work with confidential information or who plan to mine a data set for years to come. Appearing as panelists are John Wilbanks, Robert Chen, and Andrew Rundle. Wilbanks is the Vice President for Science at Creative Commons, where he runs the Science Commons project. His background includes roles at the World Wide Web Consortium, Harvard Law School, and the US House of Representatives, as well work as a software entrepreneur. Chen is director of CIESIN (Center for International Earth Science Information Network), a research unit of the Earth Institute at Columbia. He is currently Secretary-General of the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) of the International Council for Science (ICSU), and a member of the ICSU ad hoc Strategic Coordinating Committee on Information and Data. Rundle is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health and runs several research projects studying how built and social environments of neighborhoods in New York City influence health. To a large degree his research relies upon access to data generated by New York City governmental agencies.

This event was cosponsored by CIESIN, the Center for International Earth Science Information Network.