To coincide with our OpenCon London satellite event on 21st November, Know-Center, Digital Science and ScienceOpen teamed up with Authorea to announce an essay competition for short blog posts on this year’s Open Access Week theme of “Open in order to …”.
We received 17 excellent submissions:
Congratulations to Dasapta Erwin Irawan, winner of our competition for "Openness for the inferior: a view from Indonesian Scientist"! Dasapta won with 237 of 545 votes cast online. A close second were  Marina Lubenow & Jens Crueger with their entry "Open in order to think multidisciplinary!" See the full results below. 
Many thanks to all of our excellent entrants!
Entry
Votes received
Dasapta Erwin Irawan, "Openness for the inferior: a view from Indonesian Scientist"
237
Marina Lubenow & Jens Crueger, "Open in order to think multidisciplinary!"
228
Edit Gorogh, "Open in order to expand horizons"
18
Imogen, “Open in order to…level the playing field”
16
Sara Bosshart, "On Open Access, Dandelions and “Open in Order to Grow”
11
Isabel Jordan, "Open Access for Quality of Life and Partnership in Care"
10
Peter Murray-Rust, "Open Notebook Science Means Better Science"
7
Daniel Machado, “Open in order to [promote cooperation over competition]”
3
Devin Berg, "Open in order to open engineering"
3
Leo Mack, "Open Science is Science at Web-scale"
3
sarah, "Optimize Scientific Research Process"
3
Asura Enkhbayar, "Open in order to ... have a plan B"
2
Andrea Bertino, "Open in order to [create a new balance between innovators and the rest of humanity]"
1
Fulco Scherjon, "Open in order to reproduce"
1
Jerome Samson, "Open in order to [mess with a winning formula?]"
1
Paula, “Imposed embargo”
1
Peifeng Wang, "Open access to foster universal value"
0