 Think, if a 15-year-old who didn't know what pancreas was could find a new way to attack pancreatic cancer, I'm pretty sure we can find a new way to disseminate our knowledge. My name is Jackie Andreka and I'm a 17-year-old who used Wikipedia to develop a new way to attack pancreatic ovarian lung cancer that costs 3 cents and takes 5 minutes to run. So a lot of people when I say I'm a cancer researcher kind of give me the suspicious look like aren't you 17? And I actually started doing cancer research when I was 14 and I got interested in the field because a close family friend who was like an uncle to me passed away from pancreatic cancer. And then I found that there's really no way to attack pancreatic cancer. So I went online and using online sources such as Wikipedia found that really there's no way of currently detecting pancreatic cancer. So I sat out on this wild adventure trying to find a new way to attack pancreatic cancer and that blossomed into me becoming a cancer researcher. Once I discovered through Wikipedia articles that 85% of all pancreatic cancers are diagnosed late when someone has less than a 2% chance of survival and the current test is this 6-year-old technique that's incredibly outdated but also incredibly expensive $800 per test missing 30% of all cancers I knew I had to do something. And so I set out at age 13 armed with high school biology to solve how are we going to attack pancreatic cancer. I had to essentially get a crash course in molecular biology, material science and a couple of other fields I had no idea about. I essentially just used the internet especially Wikipedia to get this crash course in all of these fields. And then I stumbled across another thing in my Wikipedia adventures and that was single balled carbon nanotubes. Now it's the same in my biology class actually, reading about these nanotubes. Well we're learning about antibodies which are essentially molecules that only react with one specific protein in this case that cancer biomarker and I thought if I combined these two things they'd have a substance that would only react with one specific protein but also would change how electricity flows through it based on the amount of protein present due to these carbon nanotubes and that's how I used Wikipedia to make a new way to attack pancreatic cancer. One of the largest problems for scientists, particularly young scientists like myself is something called a scientific paywall. And this is essentially when you're a scientist you publish articles in a bunch of scientific journals. That's how you get like your results out and that's how you build prestige. However, the vast majority, 90% of all these journals have paywalls on their articles. So that means when you want to read them it costs $35 per article or several thousand dollars for a subscription. And because of this a lot of young scientists simply can't get access to articles they need to do science and it's even become a problem for not only 15 year old cancer researchers but Harvard University who said they simply can't sustain the number of subscriptions they have. What we've essentially engineered with these paywalls is we've created a fundamental barrier between the people in science because the general public they want to learn. What these scientific paywalls are is their attacks on the curiosity and creativity of youth and the general public. Only 0.008% of the world's population that's it. Those are the only people who can access scientific knowledge in peer reviewed journals and that's like essentially taking all the population of London randomly select 80 people off the street. Those are the only people who can read scientific articles for everyone else too bad to be you. And imagine if we could live in a knowledge democracy where what you look like age or gender doesn't apply where whether you're from Mexico to Malaysia from China to Cambodia whether you're a billionaire living on less than a dollar a day you could access these scientific articles because science shouldn't be a luxury and knowledge shouldn't be a commodity it should be a basic human right and the thing about Wikipedia that makes it so great is that in order to be an article there you have to pay a cent and there's no advertising or anything like that so that's why Wikipedia such a crucial part of a young scientist's career and even established scientist's career people should definitely care about Wikipedia because it allows for almost the democratization of innovation it allows anyone regardless of where they're from who they are what they look like it doesn't matter they can access that information and come up with a great idea