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The phenomenon of crowdfunding, in the last two decades, has gained ever increasing success and application, to the point of obtaining the attention of the European institutions, with the proposal of a Regulation aimed at providing a legal framework, in order to promote its growth.
Crowdfunding has also involved the academic world of science, looking for alternative models of research funding. Crowdfunding of science, however, due to its peculiar characteristics, would require specific regulatory provisions that call for further analysis. First and foremost, this is a consequence of the link with the issue of Open Data and the communication to the backers of the research results.
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Tim O'Reilley, in a famous post from 2005, defined the phenomenon: «Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: delivering software as a continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it, consuming and remixing data from multiple sources, including individual users, while providing their own data and services in a form that allows remixing by others, creating network effects through an “architecture of participation,” and going beyond the page metaphor of Web 1.0 to deliver rich user experiences.» http://radar.oreilly.com/2005/10/web-20-compact-definition.html.
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Article 1, paragraph 20; www.gazzettaufficiale.it/eli/id/2019/01/16/18G00170/sg.
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Paseri, L. (2019). Crowdfunding of Science and Open Data: Opportunities, Challenges, and Policies. In: Kő, A., Francesconi, E., Anderst-Kotsis, G., Tjoa, A., Khalil, I. (eds) Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective. EGOVIS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11709. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27523-5_1
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