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Just One Giant Lab
Just One Giant Lab (JOGL) is the first research and innovation laboratory operating as a
distributed, open and massive mobilisation platform for collaborative task solving. JOGL
helps humanity to sync onto fixing our most urgent and important problems using
Open Science, Responsible Innovation and Continuous
Learning. JOGL partners with academic labs, companies, startups, foundations, NGOs and public
services to create participatory research programs for understanding and solving Health,
Environmental, Social and Humanitarian issues.
Come challenge yourself by fostering humanity’s
Why we decided to create JOGL
📈 By making the process of contributing to solving important challenges accessible and valorizing for anyone, we want to multiply the number of contributors by 10 (from 5 millions to 50 millions) in 10 years, while making all produced knowledge, tools and methodologies universally open for use and adaptation.
🤷 Humanity has way too many problems to fix to solely rely on traditional institutions. We want to offer anyone the opportunity to challenge themselves by launching or contributing to collaborative initiatives focused on some of humanity’s most urgent and important problems.
🤯 Solving the platform stage. Most often, communities and initiatives that need to scale look at creating their own platform. Most fail because it is really hard. We want you to focus on scaling your actions, not changing jobs.
🤝 Most of the problems on this planet cannot be solved using traditional business models as most people cannot pay for research and innovation to create solutions. We don’t lack skills, resources and creativity, just of an efficient way to connect them.
🙌 JOGL is a not-for-profit organization based in Paris, France. We decided to adopt this model of development because we want to make sure that the value created by all the collaborative actions taken by you on JOGL is entirely re-invested within JOGL and shared with the whole JOGL community.
The platform
The JOGL platform will enable you to:
Exist
Make your actions and needs visible and connect to inspiring fellows, communities, projects, and organizations.
Engage
Find opportunities to challenge yourselves and learn on the way.
Share
Provide resources and opportunities as an Enabler.
Provide time and experience as a Contributor/Leader.
Learn/Teach
Test your skills and find mentors or become one by proposing learning experiences.
Collaborate
Create/Join teams and contribute to cracking challenges.
Publish
Document your work and share new advances and needs openly.
Search
Identify the right collaborators, projects and opportunities.
Navigate
Visualize the collaborative structure and goals of communities, teams, organizations and projects.
Valorize
Get awarded for your contributions. JOGL will also share the stories of successful initiatives and collaborations
Roles
Our experience working with communities and distributed projects has given us the understanding of the key role of “Trust” to make collaborations fruitful. In order to establish a trustful relationship between contributors who don’t necessarily know each other, we will introduce roles within JOGL that will state a set of responsibilities for each of them. Succeeding in facing those responsibilities will make you more trustworthy within your community and the global JOGL community. Failing them can however have the opposite effect.
There are three roles available for now in JOGL
Leader
Who: Any (group of) legitimate person who wish to develop their initiative openly and collaboratively.
Why: Your team lacks specific skills. You need volunteers for your project. You wish to document your advances and results openly.
What: Experiment new ideas and animate a team of contributors.
Contributor
Who: Any individual (professionals, students, amateurs and citizens) who wishes to challenge themselves by providing time, creativity and experience to a project on JOGL.
Why: Join a network of solvers. Be part of the solution. Learn on the way.
What: Find opportunities to help and commit yourself to impactful initiatives. Get feedbacks on your contributions.
Enabler
Who: Any organizations such as companies, foundations, NGOs, public institutions, startups.
Why: Make your current network and actions visible and grow beyond them by providing new types of open opportunities.
What: Create/Assist initiatives on JOGL by providing resources, mentorship and opportunities.
Missions
Open knowledge
Help the creation of open knowledge, tools and methodologies to understand and solve our most important and urgent problems.
Collaboration
Sync humanity for long-term impact through collaboration to achieve the 17 sustainable development goals of the United Nations.
Beyond Academia
Go beyond the traditional academic and corporate frameworks to improve research and collaboration.
Provide legitimacy
Provide legitimacy and opportunities to leaders and contributors around the world.
Experiment
Offer a public window to the world of inventors and doers, their passion, their struggling and their achievement.
Solving together
Give contributors direct access to the doers of the world and make research and innovation more inclusive, accessible and responsible.
Learning together
Encourage challenge-based learning and offer an open evaluation framework for learners.
Safe space
Provide a safe and inclusive space for anyone to join and contribute to, with ideas and approaches that can be bold and counterintuitive.
Transparency
Foster reproducibility through open access to data, context, methodologies, results and final publications.
Core partners
They help us build JOGL
They talk about us
Team
- Gameli is an Environment and Human Health professional, researcher, educator, and community leader passionate about sustainable change through social innovation
- Has experience across public health, technology, education, and the civic sector in Ghana, and was a recent Research Fellow with the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin, Germany.
- Currently a full-stack software development student at Trybe school
- Social entrepreneur at heart, she acted as COO of the Brazilian music startup daleGig
- As a result of her Master in International Affairs at Sciences Po, has a background as a member of several French Consulates and Embassies (Spain, South Africa, Brazil)
- Passionate about Tech for Good and rock climbing
- PhD student in Computational Biology, long experience in academia with a master at the Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS) ULM. Currently finishing his PhD at Harvard University on diverse topics around Evo-Devo of Arthropods.
- Expertise in Data Science and Machine Learning with a focus on sequence data and image analysis.
- Participates to interdisciplinary projects, recently with a collaboration with Marc Santolini on the extraction and analysis the iGEM competition.
- Helped the european union parliament on science policy surrounding green energy transition.
- Open Science and Open Source advocate through participation in multiple projects since childhood. Child of the cypherpunk hacker subculture.
- Currently studying towards a Master’s degree “expert in digital communication engineering” from web school Hetic, specializing in UX/UI design.
- Passionate about the art, science and history. 👩🏻💻Creates interfaces and architecture for websites and applications that meet user needs, illustrations, augmented reality designs and more.
- Have worked in various web design roles for companies like Digiticks, Agence numérique and Laboratoire de la Banque de France.
- Completed his undergraduate studies at Princeton University and Sciences Po Paris, before obtaining his MBA from HEC Paris. Trained in Web Development at Le Wagon and Product Design at The Design Crew.
- Experience in strategic planning, retail, digital marketing, higher education and product management.
- Passionate about creating tech products that help make our world a better place.
- Fan of environmental awareness, health/well-being and minimalism.
- Chris is a PhD student from the University of Warwick, with a spécialisation in cell envelopes and antibiotics.
- In early 2020 he co-founded the COVID relief and open source engineering charity « Helpful Engineering » and helped create the first crowd sourced reviewing system
- He started his academic career early, with his first grant achieved during his undergraduate studies in 2016 and hopes to create a fairer and more inclusive academic world as a team member at JOGL using it’s progressive and open philosophy to give the theories and spending of science budgets back to the young.
- Graduated with a Master's degree in business school and started working for large groups.
- Completed a 6-month intensive training to become a web developer.
- Learned React and Node, then followed a 6 month internship on the front-end part of a management software.
- Responsible for the website & platform development at JOGL.
- Graduated with a Master's degree "expert in digital communication engineering" from web school Hetic
- Kat is a current Angier B. Duke Scholar pursuing degrees in Computer Science and Economics at Duke University (Durham, North Carolina)
- In March 2020, she co-organized the OpenCovid19 Initiative, JOGL’s largest program, which focuses on COVID-19 related solutions and research projects
- With 4+ years of experience in team leadership, project management, and NPO/business development, Kat is passionate about entrepreneurship and promoting open interdisciplinary learning
- Actor, writer, and communications professional with an MA from Central Saint Martins and BA from McGill University
- Native New Yorker with cross-continental experience working with, listening to, learning from, and empowering guests, customers, migrants, and working families
- Most recently conducted research on digital labor rights and workplace surveillance with UK-based NGO Big Brother Watch
- Passionate about open-access and winning a world that is fair and free for all
- Full stack developer with a focus on Ruby on Rails engage in the open source and Woman In Rails / Ladies of Code Paris communities.
- With 15+ years experience as a camerawoman and assistant operator camera in event's and film industry. She used to work for "l'Academie Française des Arts et des Sciences" and TedX to multiple occasions and TEDx during that time.
- Passionate about web and technologies, she decides to switch career into web development in 2020 and to be engage in open source and welcoming communities in order to making the tech world more inclusive.
- One of the pioneers behind the DIYbio (Do-it-yourself Biology) and Open Science movements and communities. He founded in 2011 La Paillasse in Paris, the first French open lab who became one of the largest ones in the world. Helped hundreds of projects, impacted thousands of people worldwide.
- Bootstrapped synthetic biology in France as an academic researcher. He co-founded the first French iGEM team in 2007. He co-built the first dedicated research lab to synthetic biology in 2008 where he started his PhD. He published 9 peer-reviewed papers during that time.
- Decided to leave academia to focus entirely on building and experimenting with alternatives to a rusty academic system for the production of open knowledge and innovations, through La Paillasse first and now with JOGL.
- Co-Founded in 2015 the synthetic biology company PILI who is bringing the first sustainable alternative to petrochemistry for making dyes at industrial scale. PILI is now a 15 employees-strong R&D company and has raised more than $8M.
- He is a member of the French National Digital Council where he pilots the working group on ecological transition.
- Speaks worldwide on open research, DIYbio, collective intelligence and future of communities, science and innovation at gathering such as TEDx, Lift, OuiShareFest, MIT CommunityBio, CollaborAmerica Brazil, FoundersForum UK, MakerFaire Shenzhen and AfricaOSH.
- Marianna joined JOGL to communicate the latest news about the platform and its projects on social media.
- She is interested in the movement to advance open science, and initiatives that increase access to low-cost, open source scientific tools.
- She is also interested in the practice of communicating science-related topics to non-experts, the role of biology in mitigating the consequences of climate change, and initiatives that improve diversity and inclusion in STEM.
Gaëll Mainguy
Board Member- Holds a doctorate in neurobiology and a degree from the Ecole Normale Supérieure.
- First worked in the world of research at INSERM and Veolia.
- Then coordinated several projects for NGOs and public and private organizations in neuroscience, collective intelligence, sustainable development and energy.
- In 2008, he founded S.A.P.I.E.E.N.S., an open access, multidisciplinary journal, which aims to encourage research in sustainable development and advance legislation in this area.
- Convinced that societal transformations and ecological awareness require a paradigm shift in education, he joined the Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires (CRI) in Paris in 2012, where he is now Director of Development and International Relations.
- Passionate about research and health, believes in the power of collaboration to achieve long lasting changes in our society and reach the SDGs’ targets
- Holds a Master in Public Health, International Health (ISPED, Bordeaux) and a Bachelor in cellular and molecular Biology and physiology (Bordeaux University); Studied determinants of health, from the biological level to the political ones
- Contributed to the elaboration, implementation and coordination of interventional research projects and development projects across numerous sub-Saharan countries
- Collaborated alongside a wide range of public health actors such as ministries, research institutes (Inserm, IRD) and NGOs in France, Togo, Uganda, Mauritania, etc.
- Created a tool to assess the health center capacity to diagnose tuberculosis among children in 7 countries mostly sub-saharian, within the Unitaid funded TB-Speed project, alongside with the Inserm, Makerere University-John Hopkins University research Center, Doctors Without Borders/Epicentre
- Actively fights to reduce health inequalities and to provide access to health and information to the most vulnerable ; through her engagement in AIDES and the Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center
- Has a background in Geography & Urban Agriculture learning how to build systems in hydroponics & aquaponics, and how to apply those business models in an urban context.
- Before this, Paige was a project lead for a placemaking project in East London helping transform a derelict high street into a community powered pilot for the future of the neighborhood.
- Passionate about Biodesign - occasionally recording interviews with the bold experimentors in this field + co-organising monthly community meets for the biocommunity in Europe.
- Team leader in network science at CRI Paris, visiting researcher at the Network Science Institute of Northeastern University and at Harvard Medical School (Boston)
- 10+ years of experience in theoretical physics and network science in prestigious universities (ENS Paris, Princeton, Northeastern, Harvard), with applications to biological, medical, and social contexts
- Study the complex network effects underlying collaboration performance, in particular in Open Science contexts.
- Received in 2018 the Sage Bionetworks “Young Investigators Award” for his work on “Algorithms and the role of the individual”
Gilles Vaillon
Administrative AssistantCollaborators
Marie-Sarah Adenis
Designer
Bodo Hoenen
Collaborator on educational module
Yizi Huang
Trainee in educational technologies
Clément Le Bars
Web Developer
Ulysse Tallepied
Front-end engineer
Louise Trely
Volunteer Communication Assistant
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