Hacking the Ivory Tower: Towards Lab Equipment as a Common Good

Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou, Jenny Molloy, Tarek Omar, Lucy Patterson
In this session, we will focus on hardware and software solutions,
tools and services, resources and projects that adopt the Open
Source approach and have one goal: to increase the access to
scientific research. We present initiatives and visionaries putting
this into action in different regional contexts who will discuss
their insights, practical knowledge and experience. What can
science learn from hacker culture, which methods and principles can
be shared? What impact would this kind of junction have on
individual academics? How can digital tools help the global
scientific community to promote the growth of knowledge worldwide?
Part of the panel are The Gathering for Open Science Hardware, a
community of developers and scientists who support the growth of
knowledge through global access to hardware for science;
openeuroscience.com, a network for Open Science projects; the Open
Research Lab for Emerging Technologies, as well as the mobile lab
approach developed by the Cairo Hackerspace.