Open Science can save the planet | Kamila MARKRAM | TEDxBrussels

Open Science can save the planet

Kamila is a neuroscientist, autism researcher and the co-founder and CEO of Frontiers, a leading Open Access academic publisher and Open Science IT platform on a mission to make science open for the benefit of humanity.
As a researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne she co-developed the Intense World Theory of Autism which proposes that autism is the result of a “super-brain” that perceives, absorbs and feels too much, causing autistic people to withdraw from an overly intense world.
Despite her love of science, Kamila recognized a crucial need for transparency, accessibility and advanced digitization in the publishing process to accelerate innovation and the scientific solutions we need for a sustainable future. This drove her mission to make research freely available and to popularize science and the people behind the discoveries to help create aspirational role models for younger generations. In 2007 she co-founded Frontiers, the first academic publisher to take scholarly publishing entirely online and currently one of the largest and most impactful open-access publishers in the world.
She has been named a L’HEBDO Forum top 100 personality, a finalist for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2016, a Stevie Gold Award Winner for Women in Business and is currently shortlisted for the EU Prize for Women Innovators.
Kamila co-founded Frontiers with her husband, Henry Markram. He is also a neuroscientist and founder of the Human Brain Project, Europe’s flagship project to simulate the human brain on super- computers. They share a passion for neuroscience, big science and open science, but above all, their love for their multi-cultural family and five children.

[michelleengelbrecht]

Brilliant TED Talk! We have a right to the data and information that we fund.

[magalim]

Brilliant, data-driven and inspiring.
I enjoyed every minute of this TED Talk!

[NuevoParadigma]

En 0:30 aparece un gráfico sin referencias. De dónde saca esa información??
Me gusta el mensaje, pero creo que en este contexto podía haber mencionado la obra del difunto Aaron Swartz y de Alexandra Elbakyan.

[mallikarjunaihy]

Amazing TaLk to know more about SCIENCE, really the best thrilling inventions as well discoveries brought to us with facts and figures authenticated at Global level, must be appreciated and encouraged, Global level reformation should be organized,

[researchgap]

We really need open access and unrestricted use of data, knowledge, and information to make it possible for more scholars, policymakers, practitioners, clinicians, and the general public to be able to view, cite, and share every work.

[jo]

Excellent talk well supported by evidence!

[JohnAmose]

Open Science shifts the payment burden from the 'reader/subscriber' to the 'author' who has conducted the research in the form of Article Processing Charges (APCs). Shouldn't a system be developed where the author benefits financially from their contributions? In a publish-or-perish world, this takes a toll on the authors.

[wwlittle]

Some good points, but she throws out a lot of numbers without telling where they come from.

If "open science" includes all science, including that which is controversial and not just that which makes it past "fact checkers, " then I'm all for it. However, if it's the same agenda of necessarily following the "settled" science narrative, then there is no progress. I am for "open science, " but it's science only if it fosters open debate.

[ewawalczak]

This sharp, German creature really knows what she speaks about. Certainly about money. All she knows is where the money is.
I like the orange blond haircolor. Trés coquette.

[xualiscompilus]

How else did Big Corporations ever become Big!