Open Science Hardware: - A Shared Solution to Environmental - Monitoring Challenges

The roundtable identified two key areas for supporting collaboration and building trust in the OScH and environmental monitoring ecosystems: The tools and data, and the culture of environmental monitoring. [...] Conclusion: Where We Go from Here, a Brief Roadmap OScH, and transparency more broadly, can strengthen collaborations and trust between the public, government, researchers, and technologists by opening up designs and data to scrutiny, making it easier and less expensive to build on and modify tools for new purposes, demonstrating accountability and responsibility to the public, and encourag- ing c. [...] To increase the landscape of use and the sustainability of the field of OScH, understanding the value and contributions that open practices and tools can make is of primary importance. [...] … and then NEXT: As part of the work to create policies around OScH procurement, instituting openness as a default can ensure ease of access for agencies, contractors, and others to collaborate, and for members of the public to assess and build on their tools. [...] The Center’s mission is to commemorate the ideals and concerns of Woodrow Wilson by providing a link between the worlds of ideas and policy, while fostering research, study, discussion, and collaboration among a broad spectrum of individuals concerned with policy and scholarship in national and international affairs.