“If two men each give one another an apple they still each have only one apple. But if each of them gives the other an idea, they each have two ideas.”
- George Bernard Shaw (paraphrased)

OPEN COMMUNITY KNOWLEDGE GENERATION

At Lilly COI, we are helping to create knowledge-generating communities around clinical research.  The internet was always intended to be a participative system, and the open clinical intelligence network we forsee is about open contribution making drug development better.  Our White Paper states clearly that one of the fundamental effects of open networks is the generation of new knowledge, and that the internet’s real power lies in its ability to allow people to quickly self-organize and engage in a number of ways.  Open Q & A forums provide one simple and powerful way to generate valuable knowledge.
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