Crowdsourcing Scientific Research: Leveraging the Crowd for Scientific Discovery

If it can be done in TB research - it can certainly be done for clinical trials design.

http://www.crowdsourcing.org/video/fortune-and-biewald-crowdsourcing-tb-cell-annotation-/8433

TLS at Open Science Summit 2011

Listen to the podcast at:

http://mendelspod.com/podcast/openscience

Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle

A great accomplishment of crowd-sourcing. The gamers were challenged in a focused way, and well curated. This is what is possible, and it is only a beginning.

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/online-gamers-crack-aids-enzyme-puzzle-161920724.html

 

 

Social networking rallies volunteers in Mayo Clinic study

This story focuses on patient recruitment; Transparency LS goes a few steps further by asking patients to co-design the study protocol. Stay tuned for updates!

http://www.fiercebiotechit.com/story/social-networking-rallies-volunteers-mayo-clinic-study/2011-08-31?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal

WSJ on Crowdsourcing Deficit Reduction

An article in The Wall Street Journal:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904716604576542472754782288.html

One notable quote which is relevant to Transparency:

>>For his part, Mr. Goel said "people always underestimate the power of crowdsourcing," or using a large group of people to complete a task. He cites the prolific online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which relies on individuals to create the content.<<

... if this can be done, there is no reason why a crowd sourced clinical study protocol can not be send to the regulatory authorities...

http://opensource.com/government/11/8/crowdsourced-icelandic-constitution-submitted-parliament?sc_cid=70160000000TdpmAAC

Crowdsourced Icelandic constitution submitted to parliament

Transparency featured at BioPharma Physicians blog

http://www.biopharmphysicians.com/crowd-sourcing-in-clinical-development/