John Wilbanks
{{Short description|American entrepreneur}}
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John Wilbanks is a Senior Fellow at the [https://www.thedatasphere.org/ Datasphere Initiative], former Head of Data at Biogen Digital Health, former Chief Commons Officer at Sage Bionetworks, and Executive Director at [https://creativecommons.org/2005/11/09/whatissciencecommonsbyjohnwilbankssciencecommonsexecutivedirector/ Science Commons].{{Citation needed|date=February 2024|reason=Science Commons announcement was from 2005. Is this current?}} He served as a Senior Fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and at FasterCures. He is known for his work on informed consent, open science and research networks. Wilbanks led a We the People petition supporting the free access of taxpayer-funded research data, which gained over 65,000 signatures.{{cite web |title=John Wilbanks TED Profile |url=http://www.ted.com/speakers/john_wilbanks.html |access-date=12 Mar 2013}} In February 2013, the White House responded, detailing a plan to freely publicize taxpayer-funded research data.{{cite web |author=Mike Masnick |date=Feb 2013 |title=White House Orders Federal Agencies To Require More Open Access To Not Just Research, But Data |url=https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130222/11563822071/white-house-orders-federal-agencies-to-require-more-open-access-to-not-just-research-data.shtml |access-date=27 Mar 2013}} - Direct link to response is in this article. Blacklisted by WP's spam filter.
Scientific American featured{{how|date=January 2015}} Wilbanks in "The Machine That Would Predict The Future" in 2011.{{cite web |title=The Machine That Would Predict The Future |url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-machine-that-would-predict/ |access-date=2011-11-18 |publisher=Scientific American}} Seed magazine named Wilbanks among their Revolutionary Minds of 2008, as a "Game Changer" {{cite web |title=John Wilbanks - Science Commons |url=http://revminds.seedmagazine.com/revminds/member/john_wilbanks/ |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204020609/http://revminds.seedmagazine.com/revminds/member/john_wilbanks/ |archive-date=2008-12-04 |access-date=2009-01-06 |publisher=Seed Media Group}} and the Utne Reader named him in 2009 as one of "50 visionaries who are changing your world".{{cite web |title=John Wilbanks - Executive Director, Science Commons |url=http://www.utne.com/Science-Technology/John-Wilbanks-Science-Commons-Creative-Scientific-Research.aspx |access-date=2009-10-16 |publisher=Utne Reader}} He frequently campaigns for wider adoption of open access publishing in science{{Cite journal |last1=Wilbanks |first1=J. |author-link=John Wilbanks |year=2006 |title=Another reason for opening access to research |journal=BMJ |volume=333 |issue=7582 |pages=1306–1308 |doi=10.1136/sbmj.39063.730660.F7 |pmc=1761190 |pmid=17185718}}{{cite web |author=Richard Poynder |date=2012-05-25 |title=Open Access: The People's Petition |url=http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/open-access-peoples-petition.html |access-date=2012-06-01}}{{Cite journal |last=Subbaraman |first=Nidhi |date=2019-12-20 |title=Rumours fly about changes to US government open-access policy |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03926-1 |journal=Nature |language=en |doi=10.1038/d41586-019-03926-1 |pmid=33340013 |s2cid=214378269}} and the increased sharing of data by scientists.{{Cite journal |last1=Field |first1=D. |last2=Sansone |first2=S. -A. |last3=Collis |first3=A. |last4=Booth |first4=T. |last5=Dukes |first5=P. |last6=Gregurick |first6=S. K. |author-link6=Susan K. Gregurick |last7=Kennedy |first7=K. |last8=Kolar |first8=P. |last9=Kolker |first9=E. |last10=Maxon |first10=M. |last11=Millard |first11=S. |last12=Mugabushaka |first12=A. -M. |last13=Perrin |first13=N. |last14=Remacle |first14=J. E. |last15=Remington |first15=K. |year=2009 |title='Omics Data Sharing |journal=Science |volume=326 |issue=5950 |pages=234–236 |bibcode=2009Sci...326..234F |doi=10.1126/science.1180598 |pmc=2770171 |pmid=19815759 |last16=Rocca-Serra |first16=P. |last17=Taylor |first17=C. F. |last18=Thorley |first18=M. |last19=Tiwari |first19=B. |last20=Wilbanks |first20=J.}}{{Cite journal |last1=Wilbanks |first1=J. |author-link1=John Wilbanks |year=2011 |title=Openness as infrastructure |journal=Journal of Cheminformatics |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=36 |doi=10.1186/1758-2946-3-36 |pmc=3197551 |pmid=21999327 |doi-access=free }}
Education and career
Wilbanks grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, US. He attended Tulane University and received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy in 1994.{{cite web|url=http://berlin4.aei.mpg.de/biography/Bio_Wilbanks_OA06.pdf|title=Wilbanks Bio|publisher=Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam|access-date=2008-06-21|archive-date=2011-01-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110105200746/http://berlin4.aei.mpg.de/biography/Bio_Wilbanks_OA06.pdf|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/234|title=John Wilbanks | date=2008-01-09|publisher=Berkman Center for Internet and Society|access-date=2008-06-18}} He also studied modern letters at the Sorbonne in Paris.
Image:John Wilbanks 2.jpg 2007 National Conference.]]
From 1994 to 1997, he worked in Washington, D.C., as a legislative aide to Congressman Fortney "Pete" Stark. During this time Wilbanks was also a grassroots coordinator and fundraiser for the American Physical Therapy Association. Wilbanks was the Berkman Center for Internet & Society's first assistant director from the fall of 1998 to the summer of 2000. There he led efforts in software development and Internet-mediated learning, and was involved in the Berkman Center's work on ICANN.
While at the Berkman Center, Wilbanks founded Incellico, Inc., a bioinformatics company that built semantic graph networks for use in pharmaceutical research and development. He served as President and CEO, and led to the company's acquisition in the summer of 2003. He has also served as a Fellow at the World Wide Web Consortium on Semantic Web for Life Sciences, was a visiting scientist in the Project on Mathematics and Computation at MIT,[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/projects/mac/mac-people.html Project on Mathematics and Computation] and was a member of the National Advisory Committee for PubMed Central. He was a member of the Board of Directors for Sage Bionetworks{{cite web|url=http://sagebase.org/info/directors.php |title=Sage Bionetworks Seattle | Directors |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127081638/http://sagebase.org/info/directors.php |archive-date=2012-01-27 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |title=Board of Directors |url=https://sagebionetworks.org/board-of-directors/ |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=Sage Bionetworks |language=en-US}} and is on the advisory boards of Genomera, Genomic Arts, and Boundless Learning. He is an original author of the Panton Principles for sharing data.
=Consent to Research=
Consent to Research (CtR) was a project that provides a platform for people to donate their health data for the purposes of scientific research and the advancement of medicine. Since health data is restricted and expensive, this project provided people the opportunity to freely donate information that can only positively benefit medicine and patients at large.{{cite web|url=http://weconsent.us/about|title=Consent to Research - About Us|publisher=Consent to Research|access-date=2012-07-06|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120629212121/http://weconsent.us/about|archive-date=2012-06-29}} Consent to Research was connected to the Access2Research project, which aimed to free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles that are already taxpayer-funded.{{cite web|url=http://access2research.org/about|title=Access2Research - About Us|publisher=Access2Research|access-date=2013-02-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120524034409/http://access2research.org/about|archive-date=2012-05-24|url-status=dead}} Wilbanks founded the project in 2011 and gave a TED Global talk about the project in 2012.{{cite web|url=http://blog.ted.com/2012/06/29/unreasonable-people-unite-john-wilbanks-at-tedglobal-2012/|title=TED Blog - Unreasonable people unite: John Wilbanks at TED Global 2012|publisher=TED|access-date=2012-07-06}} Ultimately this project followed him to Sage Bionetworks and his work in corporate governance, and finally transitioned into the Participant-Centered Consent Toolkit and integrated into Apple's ResearchKit open source toolkit.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2015/3/10/8177683/apple-research-kit-app-ethics-medical-research|title = Apple's new ResearchKit: "Ethics quagmire" or medical research aid?|date = 10 March 2015}}
=Science Commons=
Wilbanks worked at [https://creativecommons.org/science Science Commons and Creative Commons] from October 2004 to September 2011.{{cite web|url=https://creativecommons.org/about/people/#34|title=People - Creative Commons|publisher=Creative Commons|access-date=2008-06-18}} 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,{{cite web|url=http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2007-07/will-john-wilbanks-launch-next-scientific-revolution|title=Will John Wilbanks Launch the Next Scientific Revolution? |last=Seiff|first=Abby|date=2007-07-19|publisher=Popular Science|access-date=2008-06-18}} KRUU Radio,{{cite web|url=http://www.kruufm.com/node/414|title=16 - Open Views - John Wilbanks, Science Commons|last=Raman|first=Sundar|date=2007-01-23|access-date=2008-08-08}} and BioMed Central to discuss Science Commons.{{cite web|url=http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/23/features|archive-url=https://archive.today/20050131095502/http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/23/features|url-status=dead|archive-date=2005-01-31|title=Science Commons makes sharing easier|last=Weitzman|first=Jonathan B.|date=2004-12-20|publisher=Open Access Now|access-date=2008-06-18}}
Footnotes
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External links
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20170202002755/http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/intellectual_property_who_owns_green_tech/ Five experts discuss how intellectual property can be adapted to spread green tech, what we can learn from Pasteur, and how to inspire people to innovate.]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20161202131024/http://scienceblogs.com/commonknowledge/ John Wilbanks' Common Knowledge blog] at [http://scienceblogs.com/ Science Blogs]
- [http://del-fi.org John Wilbanks' personal site, del-fi]
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