Talk:Social Systems

Open Notes

Martin

• Reward contributions and how they affect behavior
• Collect few opinions on how the rewarding can be done, other examples and what worked or didn't work

Angelina:

• Questions about adoption
• Regulations (for example, in USA there's data open or they don't receive money anymore), in EU there's a proposal to evaluate researchers using diff metrics, such as openness

Sílvia

• old incentives, what are the ones in place besides reputation?
• What should we keep in mind when creating

Angelina

• replacing the old system would be detrimental to the adoption
• transfer their merits to the new system
• progressive adoption of new metrics in behavior that accommodates certain

Rafie

• metrics are used to "judge" researchers to allocate grants
• democratically incentives, but existing structures are not democratically enough

• Most of the incentives are monetary (there are social)
• researchers are not in a position to decide; they're put in the system
• funders can probably change the infrastructure and regulations

Q: stakeholders?

• Researchers
• grant funders
• publishing agencies
• Other: industry, taxpayers

Q - change coming from which stakeholders?

• Biggest US and European
• smaller foundations, not supper novel ideas, a lot of outliers in Web3
• researcher will move to web3 in 10 to 20
• Stepwise approach, led by biggest funder

• alternative view*: demonstrate the reality of sth, Web3 and Desci - opportunity to demonstrate structures and mechanisms working in a small scale, and showcasing to onboard larger organizations
• start small and demonstrate value

Push for the adoption of new systems:

• works but not optimal: some systems work great on a small scale, but scale to promote less nice behaviour
• Readiness of academia?
• otoh, early adopters don't need to be big

Nouran:

• HCI community: the driving force is actually the academics
• Tool building perspective: challenges?
• Reputation & interactions in online space: how can we build better tools to help users navigate these spaces without being afraid of their reputation

Martin Q - if we create spaces to allow researchers to come together away from their high reputation game, how do they tap into research initiatives and new funders and funding mechanisms?

Open Questions?

• • developing incentive mechanisms for contributions to understanding the status of the knowledge frontier**
  • incentive mechanisms for contributing and maintaining living lit reviews in both domains**.