Science Commons
John worked at Science Commons and Creative Commons from October 2004 to September 2011. As vice president of science he ran the Science Commons project for its five year lifetime and continued to work on science after he joined the core Creative Commons organization. He has been interviewed by Popular Science magazine, KRUU Radio, and BioMed Central to discuss Science Commons.
Scientific American in 2011 featured Wilbanks in The Machine That Would Predict The Future. Seed magazine named Wilbanks among their Revolutionary Minds of 2008, as a "Game Changer" and the Utne Reader named him in 2009 as one of "50 visionaries who are changing your world". He frequently campaigns for wider adoption of open access publishing in science and the increased sharing of data by scientists.
Wilbanks lead a We the People petition supporting the free access of taxpayer-funded research data, which gained over 65,000 signatures. In February 2013, the White House responded, detailing a plan to freely publicize taxpayer-funded research data.
Read more about this topic: John Wilbanks, Education and Career
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