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Hello,
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<td style="text-align:left;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.67px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5">Public research and open data changes lives. <b>I know because I saw it first hand.</b>
One of my close friends got sick with a rare, degenerative disease and I
was shocked to see how many barriers he faced trying to access
publicly-funded research to learn more about his condition. Information
about what treatment options and information that might help him – that
he had helped pay for as a taxpayer – could only be accessed through
expensive, paid sites maintained by publishers.
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<a href="https://click.e.mozilla.org/?qs=c420f6cd6b9ef233967618b1793522e42b2b3694656bb604d677c7452728b65e1e09bb98ac0ab52ffba29599392087a1fb9020dbefb16b84" style="font-weight:700" target="_blank"><img alt="Add your name to support Open Data" title="Add your name to support Open Data" src="https://image.e.mozilla.org/lib/fe9915707361037e75/m/3/MoFo_NA_AVO_2017_PET_HTML_OpenDataDay_US_EN_IMG_callout.png" class="m_-7224860502418726511gmail-CToWUd" width="250" border="0" height="250"></a>
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Each year, taxpayers like you and me fund billions of dollars in
scientific research. That research has transformed the way we
communicate, learn and save lives — just think about how mapping the
humane genome has revolutionized medicine and our vocabulary alike.
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That's why I'm writing to you today, on <a href="https://click.e.mozilla.org/?qs=c420f6cd6b9ef233e1a15f752040f0f8da0f6e312792477941059ef46d9c2bb3db0ac75bda1df8e757490562b9ab6c779860422d0537f770" style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(255,140,142);font-weight:bold;display:inline-block" target="_blank">Open Data Day</a>,
to ask that as the taxpayer funders of public research, we start
talking about what we expect from the research we pay for. It's time for
a bigger conversation about the role of science and information in our
lives, and that conversation begins with a few key principles:
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I SUPPORT OPEN DATA!
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<ul><li style="padding-bottom:10px"><b>We should be able to see work we pay for.</b> This should apply to individuals and professional scientists alike. </li><li style="padding-bottom:10px"><b>Publicly-funded research should be preserved and archived.</b>
We don't know when research will come in handy again so preservation is
key! For example, the technology developed for the Hubble space
telescope was later used to create a new method of breast cancer
screening. That's why it's crucial for this work to be preserved and
archived rigorously.</li><li><b>Data should be truly open.</b> You shouldn't need
expensive software to be able to access or even look at different
studies through different studies — the lower the artificial barriers,
the easier we make it to access knowledge, the more rapidly progress can
happen. </li></ul>
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<a href="https://click.e.mozilla.org/?qs=c420f6cd6b9ef23392cfe8f3a89eab8496153c253c2cb0ccaa47cebf1f494bde81c679370367f43fb4decaf2b965ca1b6f2ebdc1d179cd95" style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(255,140,142);font-weight:bold;display:inline-block" target="_blank">Will you add your name</a>
to these principles and share them with your friends, family and
colleagues to help kick-start a conversation about how important science
is to our lives?
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What makes science awesome is that it allows for anyone to ask
questions, collect and examine evidence, and communicate the results of
what was found. By coming together and sparking a conversation about the
need for public research to be open, we can help accelerate that
process.
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Yours,<br><br>
Kaitlin Thaney<br>
Mozilla Senior Fellow + Open Data Advocate
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