Knowbella Tech freely provides the scientific community with the Knowbella Platform™; a scientific collaboration ecosystem that puts the scientist at the center of research and provides rewards for participating in collaborative research. The Platform freely provides IP, access to grants and lab equipment, communication tools, manuscript development tool, preprint server, career opportunities, and AnthroTokens cryptosecurity tokens.
Scientists who opt-in will also be freely matched to career and consulting opportunities.
Knowbella’s mission is to make researchers lives better by providing open access to intellectual property, tools, and services to advance science and improve the world. More specifically, our objective is to contribute to the global STEM research community by democratizing access to science (“open science”). Knowbella is a supporter of STEM careers and will contribute to building the global STEM workforce through education and collaboration.
We want to contribute to the global STEM research community by opening and democratizing access to science in order to maximize social good, generate economic incentives, and improve our world. We aim to help scientists around the world find previously hidden knowledge, connect with others to grow that knowledge, disseminate their findings more quickly, and reward them for their contributions to the scientific community. We seek to help researchers take control and advance their careers through a strong community with a framework for innovation and earning AnthroTokens rewards along the way.
The Knowbella Tech philosophy is based upon bringing collaboration back to science, particularly among underserved scientists. This is the way science once was and it is the wave of the future.
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Sir Isaac Newton (1675)
Scientists labor for months, even years, to produce findings that increase knowledge and benefit society. These findings undergo a lengthy peer review process in order to get published. A published manuscript is available in expensive subscription journals or open access journals funded by Article Processing Charges (APC) usually paid by the authors.
There is a global shortage of STEM scientists to meet formal employment needs (Umoh, 2017). Technology companies are in a fierce battle for the top talent. Technology companies can no longer afford to recruit talent in an on-demand or a just-in-time process. Just as professional sports teams start scouting athletes years in advance, technology companies must start scouting and recruiting scientists far in advance.
Further, there is nearly $4T of idle intellectual property (IP) languishing in institutions, universities, and companies (Hovis, 2014). Thus far, unlocking this idle knowledge has been ignored.
There is a better way. The Knowbella Platform is a researcher community for open source IP projects. Scientists can start with existing IP and develop it into new directions and applications. The Platform will provide researchers IP, access to grant funding and lab equipment, manuscript development tools, preprint server, career and gig opportunities, and AnthroTokens rewards for collaborating. In turn, researchers can drive new discoveries, innovations, and their careers.
The IP remains open under a Creative Commons (CC) 4.0 licensing model and may be developed further. Further developed IP under the CC requires all developments to be freely provided to all researchers on the Platform. Anyone is free to commercialize the advancements.
Due to the Platform’s unique use of blockchain, funders and scientists establish mutual trust and transparency to share in the success of innovation goals. This makes the Knowbella community democratized and self-governing. It leverages blockchain technology for enabling scientists to vote on grant funding through indelible and transparent voting.
Because scientists are working in real-time on the Platform, those that opt-in can be recruited by organizations seeking their research skills. Companies and researchers can then begin building relationships for future project and employment opportunities.
Knowbella Tech disrupts the dominant paradigm of siloed, cumbersome processes with an open science platform powered by distributed blockchain technology. The Knowbella Platform opens up dormant scientific intellectual property (IP), enables scientific collaboration across the globe, allows researchers to share their research results immediately, and gives grant funders and applicants direct access to one another.
Breaks down institutional silos by exposing IP to a collaborative community of science-minded users, for the benefit of all.
Matches IP providers and IP consumers with similar interests, an opportunity that simply does not exist under the current “protectionist” mentality.
Scientists’ contributions to research and collaboration on the Platform earn AnthroTokens, incentivizing the community to develop dormant IP and build the Knowbella community.
All research on the Knowbella Platform is available under a CC 4.0 and Copyleft model, enabling collaboration across borders and institutions. This makes each advance more valuable for the next researcher that takes it further, and so forth.
The Knowbella Platform™ scientific collaboration ecosystem is powered by AnthroTokens cryptosecurity token, which is based upon the Ethereum ERC-20 smart contract. With their earned AnthroTokens, scientists will be able to conduct transactions with grant funders, vendors, service providers, and other scientists.
Scientists are provided AnthroTokens for referring colleagues to the Platform, collaborating, adding content, starting and working on projects, peer reviewing, publishing to the preprint server, and any number of other activities.
AnthroTokens serves multiple important functions for the Platform:
While some of these functions could be served with an existing cryptocurrency or token, by using the AnthroTokens dedicated to this particular scientific ecosystem, participants help to strengthen the equity value of the whole ecosystem.
As a matchmaking service between IP producers and IP consumers, the Knowbella Platform creates an ecosystem of transactions. Those transactions may be done in AnthroTokens.
Founder,
Board Chair
Consulting Life Science Officer
Consulting Director
Blockchain & Software Development
Consulting Scientific Community Manager
Consulting Software Engineer
Jason E. Barkeloo has thirty-four years of experience as an entrepreneur, researcher, investor, and educator. He began his career as a US Army air defense operations and intelligence assistant. Later, after the US Army sponsored his higher education, he managed military medical facilities and research laboratories.
At the end of his US Army career with a final assignment as the lab operations officer of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) Medical Detachment, Jason was selected for the Department of Defense “Troops to Teachers” program. In that role, Jason spent 5-years as an inner-city high school science teacher. He received national recognition and awards for innovations in science education.
After teaching, Jason became an entrepreneur and launched a number of startups. Jason's first company, TouchSmart Publishing, was an educational content company providing prescriptive content to special needs students. His second company, Somatic Digital, created the touch user interface (TUI) human-computer interface technology and had relationships with NASA, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Freescale Semiconductor, and the National Federation of the Blind. His third company, Pilus Energy, was a synthetic biology company, which was purchased by a publicly traded company.
One of Jason’s current efforts is Open Therapeutics; an open science company that crowdsources orphan therapeutic intellectual properties (IP) to the global scientific community. He hired the CEO and serves as Chair of the Board.
His second current effort is Knowbella Tech; an open science effort crowdsourcing dormant non-therapeutic IP to researchers around the world. Knowbella Tech will provide Helix tokens (“cryptocurrency”) based upon Ethereum blockchain to the researchers who collaborate within the Knowbella Platform. He hired the CEO and serves as the Chair of the Board.
Jason speaks internationally on the advantages of open science and open access publishing. He has patents in synthetic biology, digital rights management, with patents pending in blockchain-enabled technologies.
Dr. Guo is the Consulting Chief Science Officer and Advisor. Li is also the Scientific Community Manager at Open Therapeutics since 2016. She worked with technology team to develop the Therapoid platform for scientific collaboration. Li was the Director of Cellular Engineering at Microbial Robotics in 2014~2015. She was the principal investigator for the National Science Foundation's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award. She worked with U.S. and international researchers (Spain and India) on the synthetic biology-based product’s development and the Company’s acquisition of intellectual properties. Li was a neuro-oncology research fellow at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in 2007-2013. She conducted several research projects and published papers (in the Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Cell biology, Glia, among others) as first author. She was also the recipient of an award from the Natural Science Foundation of China. Li received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2006 and her B.S from Xiamen University in 2001.
A 25-year experienced software engineer whose experience spans Blockchain (Ethereum-based Smart Contracts), Biometrics, Cryptography, Finance, Information Security, Machine Learning, Risk Management, Sustainability, and more. He has been awarded a US patent related to smart cards and PKI and has more patents pending.
Martin has led cutting-edge projects for the public sector (US and European) as well as for multinational and Fortune 500 companies across the Telecoms, Energy, Financial sectors and Travel sectors.
Although experienced in numerous programming languages, Martin is currently focused on Solidity, Python, and JavaScript and the Django and ReactJS frameworks. Martin serves as a core developer for globally popular open sources packages within the Django ecosystem. Martin studied Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science as an honor student at Austin College.
Nick is a University of Cincinnati graduate of Biomedical Studies. He has a background in Developmental Biology, and has conducted research at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. He has been apart of the open science community for the past 3 years, and strongly supports the mission of spreading knowledge worldwide. Nick has strong communication skills, and fiercely wants to see a world of open access to see how innovative humans can be.
Greg has over 15 years of experience in a wide range of fields that include NGO, Money Management, Banking, and startups. He specializes in developing custom solutions that solve specific organization needs.
These custom solutions have involved designing and developing architecture, devops, web applications, and embedded devices. A range of programming languages have been used, primarily Python, Golang, and Javascript.
Founder,
Board Chair
Jason E. Barkeloo has thirty-four years of experience as an entrepreneur, researcher, investor, and educator. He began his career as a US Army air defense operations and intelligence assistant. Later, after the US Army sponsored his higher education, he managed military medical facilities and research laboratories.
At the end of his US Army career with a final assignment as the lab operations officer of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) Medical Detachment, Jason was selected for the Department of Defense “Troops to Teachers” program. In that role, Jason spent 5-years as an inner-city high school science teacher. He received national recognition and awards for innovations in science education.
After teaching, Jason became an entrepreneur and launched a number of startups. Jason's first company, TouchSmart Publishing, was an educational content company providing prescriptive content to special needs students. His second company, Somatic Digital, created the touch user interface (TUI) human-computer interface technology and had relationships with NASA, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Freescale Semiconductor, and the National Federation of the Blind. His third company, Pilus Energy, was a synthetic biology company, which was purchased by a publicly traded company.
One of Jason’s current efforts is Open Therapeutics; an open science company that crowdsources orphan therapeutic intellectual properties (IP) to the global scientific community. He hired the CEO and serves as Chair of the Board.
His second current effort is Knowbella Tech; an open science effort crowdsourcing dormant non-therapeutic IP to researchers around the world. Knowbella Tech will provide Helix tokens (“cryptocurrency”) based upon Ethereum blockchain to the researchers who collaborate within the Knowbella Platform. He hired the CEO and serves as the Chair of the Board.
Jason speaks internationally on the advantages of open science and open access publishing. He has patents in synthetic biology, digital rights management, with patents pending in blockchain-enabled technologies.
Consulting Life Science Officer
Dr. Guo is the Consulting Chief Science Officer and Advisor. Li is also the Scientific Community Manager at Open Therapeutics since 2016. She worked with technology team to develop the Therapoid platform for scientific collaboration. Li was the Director of Cellular Engineering at Microbial Robotics in 2014~2015. She was the principal investigator for the National Science Foundation's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award. She worked with U.S. and international researchers (Spain and India) on the synthetic biology-based product’s development and the Company’s acquisition of intellectual properties. Li was a neuro-oncology research fellow at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in 2007-2013. She conducted several research projects and published papers (in the Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Cell biology, Glia, among others) as first author. She was also the recipient of an award from the Natural Science Foundation of China. Li received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2006 and her B.S from Xiamen University in 2001.
Consulting Director
Blockchain & Software Development
A 25-year experienced software engineer whose experience spans Blockchain (Ethereum-based Smart Contracts), Biometrics, Cryptography, Finance, Information Security, Machine Learning, Risk Management, Sustainability, and more. He has been awarded a US patent related to smart cards and PKI and has more patents pending.
Martin has led cutting-edge projects for the public sector (US and European) as well as for multinational and Fortune 500 companies across the Telecoms, Energy, Financial sectors and Travel sectors.
Although experienced in numerous programming languages, Martin is currently focused on Solidity, Python, and JavaScript and the Django and ReactJS frameworks. Martin serves as a core developer for globally popular open sources packages within the Django ecosystem. Martin studied Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science as an honor student at Austin College.
Consulting Scientific Community Manager
Nick is a University of Cincinnati graduate of Biomedical Studies. He has a background in Developmental Biology, and has conducted research at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. He has been apart of the open science community for the past 3 years, and strongly supports the mission of spreading knowledge worldwide. Nick has strong communication skills, and fiercely wants to see a world of open access to see how innovative humans can be.
Consulting Software Engineer
Greg has over 15 years of experience in a wide range of fields that include NGO, Money Management, Banking, and startups. He specializes in developing custom solutions that solve specific organization needs.
These custom solutions have involved designing and developing architecture, devops, web applications, and embedded devices. A range of programming languages have been used, primarily Python, Golang, and Javascript.
Our advisors displayed in alphabetical order within their domains of expertise. Please click a name to learn more.
Dr. Sönke Bartling
Dr. Sönke Bartling is a founder of Blockchain for Science and associated research at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. He is a scientist in basic medical imaging sciences, radiologist, Open Science Advocate and Blockchain Enthusiast.
He contributed to the Web 2.0 revolution in science. Then in early 2013 he fell down the bitcoin rabbit hole and realized that there is a lot in blockchain that could make science better. He is excited about kickstarting the crypto-economy in science for trustworthy results, less overhead and real innovation. Dr. Bartling is excited to contribute to Ethereum's Web3 revolution as well.
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