for the common good

Open-source hardware

Sanli Faez

Centre for Unusual Collaborations

Utrecht University

PSSOH, 14 October 2023

 

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Tackling our biggest challenges and reversing the undue concentration of wealth and power will require a fundamental change in political economy. Currently, the principle of the common good is seen as merely a corrective for the current system’s excesses, but it should be the system's primary objective.

– Conrad Anker

Mariana Mazzucato - project syndicate Jan 27, 2023

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Common goods are the product of collective interactions and investment that require shared ownership and governance models.

Mariana Mazzucato - project syndicate Jan 27, 2023

The University

Utrecht University:

with

open minds,

open attitudes

and open science,

we join forces to create tomorrow’s solutions.

By Steven Lek - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0

University core activities

Research

1

2

3

Education

Knowledge transfer

1. Research

Creating an Open-source Hardware Ecosystem for Research and Sustainable Development,

Sanli Faez, Jose Urra, Vittorio Saggiomo, Jerry de Vos, Santosh Illamparuthi, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8301859

  • Reproducibility
  • Collaboration
  • Accessibility
  • Innovation
  • Customization

2. Teaching

Teaching

how science works?

the cycle of credibility

Teaching

how "science" breaks?

Frank Miedema, Open Science: the Very Idea, Springer 2022
  • Hyper-competition
  • Pojectification
  • Inefficiency
  • Hyper-competition
  • Pojectification
  • Inefficiency
  • Not reflecting the reality

Credibility network

Scientists interact with a complex

knowledge development and attribution network.

How to thrive in the credibility network?

Rule #1: Interactions matter (at least) as much as the achievements

Community over Code

healthy community is a higher priority than good code

  • Gifting : giving away something of value for others to use and adapt.

  • Creating together : inviting others to contribute to a set objective or project.

  • Soliciting ideas : asking a question or giving a challenge

  • Learning through use : studying usage patterns, and offering subsequent

    enhancements

  • Enhancing value exchanges : improving the value of interactions between project organizers, contributors, and users.

  • Networking common interests : building mutually-reinforcing relationships with the power to attract a passionate community.

Community interactions

Taxonomy of open value exchange - Mozilla Open Leadership Framework

Guide for Collaboration, https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/collaboration/collaboration

the Golden rule

“Selfishness beats altruism within groups.

Altruistic groups beat selfish groups.”

Does Altruism Exist? Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others, by David Sloan Wilson, Yale UP, 2015

Guide for Collaboration, https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/collaboration/collaboration

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Common goods are the product of collective interactions and investment that require shared ownership and governance models.

To produce common goods, invest in open infrastructure and training programs to use them

Bianca Kramer and Jeroen Bosman. “Innovations in scholarly communication - global survey on research tool usage.” (2016)

3. Knowledge Transfer

artist: Rita Greer

source: www.autm.net

source: www.autm.net

A leaky pipeline

See also Julieta Arancia and Jenny Molloy, GOSH 2021 Policy briefs

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.5094998

The Knowledge Utilization Compass

The Knowledge Utilization Compass

  • To foster research integrity
  • To stimulate the development of intellectual virtues
  • To address the big questions of life
  • To cultivate the diversity of disciplinary fields
  • To serve and engage with the society at large
  • To safeguard and cultivate academic freedom

What are universities for?

Lechner, Tijdink et al, The core epistemic responsibilities of universities: Results from a Delphi study, Accountability in Research, DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2023.2255826

The Open Science Handshake

Cecil Graham: What is a cynic?
Lord Darlington: A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Cecil Graham: And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn’t know the market price of any single thing.

Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman

Technologies for planetary sustainability

  1. Urgency of access and scaling
  2. Demand exceeds supply
  3. Scaling up and maintenance above production
  4. Immature products, lots of early stage technologies
  5. R&D is mostly paid from the public purse

Fertile for Commoning

  • using low cost and locally available material
  • education alongside development and research

the FAIR battery challenge

www.FAIRbattery.dev

and many more

Creating an Open-source Hardware Ecosystem for Research and Sustainable Development,

Sanli Faez, Jose Urra, Vittorio Saggiomo, Jerry de Vos, Santosh Illamparuthi, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8301859

University core activities

Research

1

2

3

Education

Knowledge transfer

something to take home

Research

No tools,

No reproducibility

1

Teaching

How "science" works in the credibility network!

2

Technology transfer

Diversity of services

and the Open Science handshake.

3

Barriers

  • Conservatism
  • Cynicism
  • Perfectionism

Photo by Nazarizal Mohammad

Open source hardware = Open science = Common good

Conclusion

Thank You!

s.faez@uu.nl

https://sanlifaez.github.io/

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