3.3. And What Would the World Feel Like?

pierre
Pierre, 41, Paris

Pierre is a scientist with a PhD in biological engineering. He works in a research collective that has been facilitated by several European universities. As his team is devoted to transparency and accountability, when it comes to their research, Pierre’s job is to provide sufficient information to the public, so that the general principles can be understood by people with sufficient training. This is not only supported by the scientific community, but also necessary to help the general public to benefit from the research. This includes the use of a permissive patent system that doesn’t prevent the conceptual aspects of their research from being used by other public and private entities. The collective considers it self-evident to use Free and Open Source Software.

Pierre is also a fairly talented guitar player and shares his work under a Creative Commons license that allows other artists to build upon his work, as long as they apply some kind of remix or artistic editing.

The city of Paris recently started an initiative of measuring the air-quality and correlate that with biometric data of citizens doing outdoor sports. Pierre is participating, as the resulting datasets will be released as open source data for the scientific community.