Category: Advanced Cyber/IO

What would it take to bring the social net under OUR control… here's a project

Mosaic.Social

This is a first draft of a proposal to design and build a user friendly, egalitarian, and decentralized social platform that enables and inspires a mass of cooperative participants to come together as a powerful movement.   . . .  The hope is that social entrepreneurs will utilize this decentralized protocol to develop decentralized apps to disrupt any and all tech monopolies with decentralized P2P schemes, egalitarian business models, and “platform cooperativism”.

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Distinguishing between multi-, inter- and trans-disciplinarity – ‘theological’ hair-splitting or essential categorisation?

In a recent special issue of the journal Nature on interdisciplinarity (17 September 2015, p313-315), Rick Rylance   . . .   introduced a current project of the Global Research Council, which is comprised of the heads of science and engineering funding agencies from around the world. The Global Research Council has selected interdisciplinarity as one of its two annual themes for an in-depth report, debate and statement between now and mid-2016.

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People-Centered Internet

People from across the world met for a day and a half in October 2015, to consider:

• What would it mean to have a truly “People-Centered Internet”?
• What can we do to get there?

We identified desirable properties for a People-Centered Internet, and interventions that could lead to their realization. Read on for a summary of our discussion. If you are interested in following or participating in this work, let us know.

ROBERT STEELE: There are iron curtains between the tribes; wooden walls between industries and organizations, and plastic sheets between individuals in the same organization. Micah Sifry's book, The Big Disconnect, and Stephen E. Arnold's book CyberOSINT: Next Generation Information Access, capture my concerns perfectly. The IT industry has been corrupt (selling out to NSA), criminal (selling false and weak solutions), and stupid (not thinking through the eight aspects of analytic sharing and sense-making I discuss in my review of Sifry's book and my Foreword to Arnold's book. Kaliya Hamlin (Identity Woman) has the core values (anonymity, identity, privacy, rights, security) that need to be integrated into a larger World Brain, while my work on Applied Collective Intelligence outlines the way forward.

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