Democratizing Big Science - Ideas Market - WSJ

"[T]he Global Robotic telescopes Intelligent Array, or GLORIA, plans “to provide access to research class robotic telescopes around the world.” Ultimately, 17 telescopes on 4 continents will be generating open-access data. The organization hopes to crowd-source the analysis of that data, but the public will also have a chance to control where the telescopes are directed...."