Sepp Hasslberger: Mosaic Social — Facebook & Google Killer?

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Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

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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Ty Simpson: India All In On Smart Cities

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Ty Simpson
Ty Simpson

Smart Cities

India’s Smart City vision is part of a larger agenda of creating Industrial Corridors between India’s big metropolitan cities in India.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision “Digital India,” has set an ambitious plan to build 100 smart cities across the country. Modi in his speech quoted, “Cities in the past were built on riverbanks. They are now built along highways. But in the future, they will be built based on availability of optical fiber networks and next-generation infrastructure.”

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Gabriele Bammer: Global Research Council Seeks to Focus on Inter-, Multi-, Trans- Cross-, Post-Disciplinary Endeavors

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Gabriele Bammer
Gabriele Bammer

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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Mei Lin Fung: People-Centered Internet

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Mei Lin Fung
Mei Lin Fung

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.

Doug Rushkoff: How Digital Media Finally Enables Distributed Enterprise

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Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoff

Platform Cooperativism, hosted by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider, the closing keynote, a first effort at expressing the gist of my upcoming book, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, in 40 minutes of speaking.So here's the video of that talk. This may be the only talk where I try to include everything, and I think it's interesting to look at the evolution of the expression of these ideas.Plus, the talk is followed by a great analysis of the book's ideas by Astra Taylor.

Search: Eight Tribes

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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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