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== Opasnet aims at science-policy revolution ==
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'''Opasnet''' is a wiki-based website and workspace for helping societal decision making. Opasnet is maintained and developed by National Institute for Health and Welfare ([[THL]]), Finland. The website collects, synthesises, and distributes people's values and scientific information. Opasnet welcomes anyone who wants to promote science-based decision-making in any field. The speciality is that the information is structured for both scientific scrutiny and for policy use at the same time. In practice, you can do original research, store data, make models, and perform policy assessments and discuss all of that work in one workspace.
  
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'''The failure of the [[COP-15|Copenhagen climate meeting]]''' showed that the current ways of policy-making do not work. Despite the work of thousands of researchers to collect and synthesise scientific information, and thousands of politicians working hard to develop policies about an urgent issue, the result was only a statement of good will and funding commitments. What went wrong?
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Opasnet has a wide variety of topics based on collaborative work. Therefore, many pages are just stubs about what will eventually become solid scientific information. Therefore, THL curates many pages by improving the content and evaluating the quality. If you see a purple box on top of a page, it means that an expert of the field from THL or another institute has checked the content. Many of these pages are evaluated as reliable as scientific articles, even if they have not (yet) been published in a traditional journal.
  
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I believe that there was a major gap between scientific information and its use in policy. In Copenhagen, the countries tried to make international policy as if it was a matter of mutual agreement. It is not. It is not even a matter of majority vote. If the mankind takes the +2 °C target seriously, there are huge numbers of policies that simply are insufficient to reach that target, including the one that was agreed on in Copenhagen. In contrast, there are dauntingly few policies that actually would lead to the target and would be implementable in the real world.
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Originally, the developers of Opasnet came from the environmental health, i.e. a research field that studies the impacts of environment on human health. We are actively working, among other things, on climate change and air pollution, but you can also start a new assessment about a decision of your own interest, or participate in an existing assessment.
  
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It is a scientific, not so much political, effort to find those effective policies. We should see potential policies as scientific hypotheses. Everyone is encouraged to develop new hypotheses about good policies and gain merit for this. Then, as a joint effort, we should attack these hypotheses with scientific evidence and aim to show that they do not help us to reach the target. Only those that stand up against attacks are worth further consideration. Those who fail should be abandoned immediately. This is how science works at its best.
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Thus, we should bring this scientific approach to the policy arena. We should also bring politicians to the scientific arena, with their potential policies and questions. And thirdly, we should bring the citizens into this open discussion to tell, what our targets should actually be. Researchers should give their valuable time and capacity in the service of policy analysis. Politicians should accept that there can be normative policy analysis, which is limiting their degrees of freedom in developing policies. And citizens should understand that their political pressure is needed to make things move forward faster. The climate challenge is too urgent to rely on standard administrative rate of change.
 
  
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This is the '''[[science-policy revolution]]'''. Combine the potential policies with the current scientific understanding, and apply the [[scientific method]] to separate poor and good policies based on [[value judgement]]s by politicians and the citizens. All this should be done by immediately sharing all relevant information to be used and evaluated by everyone. Opasnet is a web workspace for performing all the work described above. Opasnet itself is also a series of research questions and hypotheses, and it is under continuous scrutiny. You are welcome to bring information to or attack any proposed methods or policy assessments you find.  
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[[Opasnet]] is the web workspace for solving them by you, and by us together. </center>
  
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We, as the [[Open Assessors' Network]], respect your contributions, and we believe that the future generations will, too. But if you want really to gain merit, focus on issues with scarcity. Bring in information about poorly known issues rather than well-known ones. Attack hypotheses if there are plenty of competing ones rather than the only one standing up. If there is only one hypothesis, it is better to develop new ones instead. This is simply because Opasnet is practically oriented, and its outcomes will be applied in the real world as soon as possible. If the only hypothesis is truly a non-working one, we will find it out in practice very soon anyway.
 
  
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'''Anyone can solve common problems.''' [[Opasnet]] is the web workspace for solving them by you, and by us together.
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[[User:Jouni|Jouni Tuomisto]], founder of Opasnet
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* [[Open assessment]]
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'''Opasnet''' is a wiki-based website for helping decisions about human health, and environmental factors affecting it. The website collects, synthesises, and distributes people's values and scientific information. We believe that all wise decision-making is based on expressing our values about what the really important things are, and understanding how the decision actually affects those things. This is why we need both values and science.
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We can only help decision making if a large group of people participate in the work. Find your own ways to contribute and act!
  
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Opasnet welcomes anyone who wants to promote science-based decision-making in any field. We are actively working on climate change, and participants are welcome. Originally, the developers of this workspace came from the environmental health, i.e. a research field that studies the impacts of environment on human health. Therefore, you can find assessments about e.g. health impacts of air pollution or persistent pollutants in fish.
 
  
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* ''' Basic information about the workspace: [[Opasnet]] | [[Open assessment]] | [[Open Assessors' Network]]'''
 
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* ''' Ongoing projects: [[Assessment on impacts of emission trading on city-level (ET-CL)|Climate change, cities, and emission trade (ET-CL)]] | [[SETURI: National estimates of DALY of environmental risks|Burden of disease in Finland (Seturi)]]
 
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** Presentations in Finnish: [[:media:Climate change and health finnish.ppt|Climate change and health - Ilmastonmuutos ja terveys]] | [[:Image:ORA_workshop_lecture1_fi.ppt|Open assessment - Avoin arviointi]] | [[:Image:Frameworks_for_risk_assessment.ppt‎|Frameworks for risk assessment - Riskinarvioinnin viitekehyksiä]]
 
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What improvements do [[Opasnet]] and [[open assessment]] bring to traditional methods of making science or policy analysis? For further details, see [[Opasnet]].
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; It is easier to combine information from different disciplines.: In [[Opasnet]], information is organised in a clever, standardised way.
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* [[Helsinki energy decision 2015|How should energy be produced in Helsinki in the future?]]
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; The potential group of participants is larger - everyone.: There are no gatekeepers. Anyone is allowed to contribute.
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* [[Assessment of the health impacts of H1N1 vaccination|Swine flu vaccination in Finland was better than not vaccinating anyone even when narcolepsy is included in the assessment]]
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* [[Benefit-risk assessment on farmed salmon|Fish is healthy despite persistent pollutants in it]]
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* [[Health impact of radon in Europe|Radon in indoor air is a major health problem]]. If living in certain areas, you should consider actions.
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; Information is collected quicker.: You don't need to get elected or graduate before you can contribute to a policy analysis or a scientific issue.
 
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; The monopolies of scientists and politicians are broken down.: We are all responsible for improving the world. We must not wait for the professionals to do it. [[Opasnet]] is a workspace to do the job.
 
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; All good, existing practices can still be used.: [[Open assessment]] does not force to abandon any good practices. It offers an alternative to some.
 
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* Tell about Opasnet to anyone who might use its information and guidance.
 
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* [[Information collection tasks for Opasnet|Collect specific information]] (you may even be paid!)
 
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* [[Decision analysis and risk management 2015|''Decision analysis and risk management'' course (18 March - 12 May 2015)]]
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* [http://www.mindtrek.org/2010/wsa Opasnet wins WSA Finland award in ''e-Government &amp; Institutions'' category]
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Information about Opasnet

Opasnet is a wiki-based website and workspace for helping societal decision making. Opasnet is maintained and developed by National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Finland. The website collects, synthesises, and distributes people's values and scientific information. Opasnet welcomes anyone who wants to promote science-based decision-making in any field. The speciality is that the information is structured for both scientific scrutiny and for policy use at the same time. In practice, you can do original research, store data, make models, and perform policy assessments and discuss all of that work in one workspace.

Opasnet has a wide variety of topics based on collaborative work. Therefore, many pages are just stubs about what will eventually become solid scientific information. Therefore, THL curates many pages by improving the content and evaluating the quality. If you see a purple box on top of a page, it means that an expert of the field from THL or another institute has checked the content. Many of these pages are evaluated as reliable as scientific articles, even if they have not (yet) been published in a traditional journal.

Originally, the developers of Opasnet came from the environmental health, i.e. a research field that studies the impacts of environment on human health. We are actively working, among other things, on climate change and air pollution, but you can also start a new assessment about a decision of your own interest, or participate in an existing assessment.

Anyone can solve common problems.
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Opasnet is the web workspace for solving them by you, and by us together.


Learn from and participate in Opasnet

We can only help decision making if a large group of people participate in the work. Find your own ways to contribute and act!


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Opasnet is maintained and developed by THL.

Recent recommendations

See more recommendations

Portals

Current issues


Active assessments


Assessments that need new participants

Show all

Previous assessments

Assessments are ordered by popularity (page loads in parenthesis).

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