St. Gallen, Switzerland 01.09.2026 David Wang, entrepreneur, management consultant and Founder of OpenDeSci, has been appointed Senior Lecturer at StGallen IMT Business School, strengthening the connection between academia, entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence and innovation. As part of the collaboration, Wang will contribute his experience across strategy, transformation, AI, entrepreneurship and emerging technologies, bringing practical perspectives from consulting, ve

Published: 05 June 2026 Over the past six months, OpenDeSci has progressed from validated prototype to a fully functional iOS application now in active community beta testing. As of June 2026, 50 selected testers from the OpenDeSci community are using the app daily, providing structured feedback ahead of public launch. Three core product modules have been built and are running in their hands. Our core thesis remains unchanged: Science is fundamentally under-distributed. AI an

Between 2023 and 2026, software engineering has become the first business function in which generative AI has crossed from augmenting the human operator to executing on its behalf. The evidence is unambiguous: on SWE-bench Verified, frontier models advanced from approximately 60% of the human baseline to near 100% in a single calendar year

Colon will lead the Foundation's technology strategy, AI engineering roadmap, and product execution as OpenDeSci scales its consumer-first science platform, a TikTok-style short-form science feed, the Scientific Paper AI Topic Explorer, and a Web3 trust layer for stablecoin payouts and on-chain credentials. He brings seven years of full-stack engineering leadership, including senior roles at Microsoft, where he led microservices migrations in fintech.

The paradox of modern science Scientific research has never been more open in theory and more closed in practice. A graduate student in Nairobi can analyze genomic datasets hosted in California. A physicist in Buenos Aires can contribute to simulations running on European supercomputers. A high school student with curiosity and an internet connection can replicate experiments that once required privileged lab access. Knowledge creation has become global, digital, and collab

Over the past months, we have made significant progress across product development, early traction, and beta user validation. Our core thesis remains unchanged: Science is fundamentally under-distributed. AI and decentralization enable a step-change in how scientific knowledge is created, explained, discovered, and rewarded. We are building a modular, AI-native science platform that transforms how research is consumed, shared, and understood, designed for both academia and