The Winnower | Science AMA Series: I’m Marko Russiver, founder of Guaana, a scientific collaboration platform that is giving 10% of the company to 100,000 scientists worldwide to define universal format for scientific projects with uniform digital footprint that is human and machine readable, AMA

"I'm Marko Russiver, founder & CEO of Guaana, a digital platform where scientists connect to each other and collaborate on open and private multidisciplinary projects.

I’m here to share our decision to give 10% of our company to scientists worldwide, for free.

We are developing a universal format for scientific projects. A record of the scientific process that includes everything from preliminary ideas and research to methods and analysis, from laboratory notebooks and data to null results and proposed contributions. By integrating an array of software and data formats used in science, we can provide a uniform digital footprint of the scientific process that is human and machine readable. I personally believe a change like this can accelerate discoveries in virtually all fields...."