Dan Whaley
As a society we face a diverse set of urgent threats across multiple sectors – environmental, economic, humanitarian, political, and many others. What is common across these challenges is the need for reliable information to back personal and ultimately civic decisions and to inform mainstream support of policy choices – reliable information that we currently lack. This deficit creates a lag between our detection of issues that demand our attention and our effective response to them – with potentially devastating consequences.
Dan’s thesis is that our lack of access to quality information, or our disagreement about it, and our inability to adopt effective policies as a result, are primarily responsible for this lag – and that addressing this is critical to our convergence on solutions to innumerable derivative issues. He believes strongly that if we are to achieve sustainability as a species we must solve this.
He wants to transform how we know what’s credible in the world around us–by creating infrastructure to enable the crowdsourced peer-review of information everywhere.
Dan Whaley Blog
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Major award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Hypothes.is is pleased to announce a major award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to advance “Open, Digital Annotation for Scholarly Communication.” The award will support work with... Read More – ‘Major award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’.
Open Book 2014
This weekend, a group of about 50 developers met at the historic NY Public Library for the Open Book 2014 Hackathon with the goal of imagining a new future of digital books, as well as advancing the... Read More – ‘Open Book 2014’.
Books in Browsers IV
Amidst the temple-like setting of the Internet Archive, Hypothes.is and the Frankfurt Book Fair, with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, swissnex San Francisco, and many sponsors, held... Read More – ‘Books in Browsers IV’.
Open Ebooks
Digital publishing is one of the most exciting and most depressing areas on the web. “Exciting” because we are witnessing the dawn of a revolution in communications, and... Read More – ‘Open Ebooks’.
Re-Engineering Government
During a time of intense political change and government dysfunction, a focus on open government– bringing transparency to government affairs and information, while facilitating engagement by... Read More – ‘Re-Engineering Government’.
