The Next Internet Frontier: Access to Scientific Data

It was scientific users who gave the Internet its first big push to broader usage in the 1980s and early 1990s. Now, it is science again that will accelerate the next big phase of Internet growth: broad, international cooperation in research. 

Now, the US, EU, Australia and other governments are supporting the formation of a new organization to facilitate that development. The Research Data Alliance, which also has stakeholders in industry and academia, aims to promote greater international collaboration for scientists gathering, storing and analyzing data in ecology, astronomy, healthcare, sociology and many other disciplines. 

Using the Internet in this way to access the results of scientific research, and the tools to study it, will hasten solutions to our greatest global challenges – in climate change, healthcare, education and other fields. This session will elaborate on the potential and challenges of this development.