SESSIONS

Plenary Session 3: Creating knowledge by applying a new sustainability and economic paradigm

Chair: Douglas Cripe

Changes are not only in science and technology but also in society in terms of creation of knowlegde, access to knowledge, use of knowledge, and value of knowledge. How can GEOSS both make use of these changes and integrate into a changing knowledge landscape? The use of crowd sourcing and citizen scientists, for example, provides new economic opportunities for data collection. Globally available cyber infrastructure changes access to information and opens novel ways for the creation of new knowledge. What new economic avenues are developing to sustain public observing systems and information infrastructure? Which kind of public-private partnership (PPP) can be developed for sustained global observations? These are some of the questions the session addressed.

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