Cambia
= Centre for Application of Molecular Biology in Agriculture, developing open-source biological research tools as a way to democratize genetic innovation
URL = http://www.cambia.org/
Also called: The CAMBIA BiOS Initiative
Description
1.
"CAMBIA is an independent, international non-profit institute. For more than a decade, CAMBIA has been creating new technologies, tools and paradigms to foster collaboration and life-sciences enabled innovation. These tools are designed to enable disadvantaged communities and developing countries to meet their own challenges in food security, health, and natural resource management." (http://www.cambia.org/daisy/cambia/home.html)
2.
Richard Jefferson:
"The mission of CAMBIA, of which I am the founder, is to advance this set of required capabilities so that biological innovation can address the human challenges of the 21st century; the BiOS (Biological Open Source) Initiative is CAMBIA’s mechanism for achieving its mission." (http://freedomofscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/innovations-open-source-biotech-models.pdf)
Initiatives
More Information
- See our entry on Open Source Biotechnology
- Richard Jefferson. Science as Social Enterprise. The CAMBIA BiOS Initiative. [1]