Wikimania 2011 abstract
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- Type of submission (workshop, tutorial, panel, presentation)
Presentation
- Author of the submission
Juha Villman, Einari Happonen, Teemu Rintala
- Abstract (please use no less than 300 words to describe your proposal)
Something about Opasnet, Opasnet Base, R, table2base and Base UI.
- brief introduction to Opasnet
Opasnet is a website (Mediawiki) and workspace for a mass collaboration project that aims to improve societal decision-making. Opasnet is hosted by THL (National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland), The Department of Environmental Health. The original motivation was to improve environmental health assessments and thus decisions related to environment and health. However, as the methods have developed and the project has grown, the scope has been widened to policy-making in any field. One of the major topics in Opasnet is climate change, which is clearly a multi-disciplinary field. Opasnet is based on open participation by anyone interested, free distribution of information, and strict application of the scientific method.
Opasnet is based on the idea that assessments should no longer be done in closed expert groups that produce some static reports that may or may not answer the questions a decision-maker actually has, and that are only as credible as the expert group is. Instead, two improvements are needed. First, an assessment should be built on an explicit information need that is defined by an open deliberation between experts, decision-makers, and stakeholders. Second, everything in the assessment - including premises, data sources, modelling, and conclusions - is open to scientific criticism.
- Track (People and Community/Knowledge and Collaboration/Infrastructure)
Infrastructure
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