Ten Slides Online As Of 16 April 2011 (Sarapis Foundation)
Tip of the Hat to Devin Balkind at Google Group Next Net
Worth a Look: Integrated Rule-Oriented Data Systems (IRODS)–Data Grids, Digital Libraries, Persistent Archives, and Real-time Data Systems
Advanced Cyber/IO, IO Multinational, IO Sense-Making, Worth A Look
Sustainable Policy-Based Data Management, Sharing, and Preservation
The third annual User Group Meeting for iRODS, the Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System, was held at RENCI, the Renaissance Computing Institute Europa Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) February 17 – 18, 2011. Reflecting growing interest in iRODS, this year's meeting meeting was larger than last year's, with attendees from the US and Canada as well as Europe and Asia, and from large projects in multiple agencies as well as commercial partners. The meeting provided an opportunity for the growing iRODS community to participate in sessions on applications of iRODS, sustainability, and technology development planning, and more, all focused on helping users implement and extend the new paradigm of sustainable policy-based management, sharing, and preservation. For more information, including meeting products of presentation slides, papers, posters, Proceedings, etc. see the meeting website. The iRODS User Group Meetings are a good source of information and use cases on iRODS, see IRODS User Group Meetings.
Reference: Topic Maps and the Semantic Web
Advanced Cyber/IO, Briefings (Core), IO Sense-Making
Autonomous Internet [Open, Free, Distributed]
Autonomous Internet, Mobile, Officers Call, Real Time
P2P Wiki : Autonomous Internet Road-Map
P2P Wiki: Free Network Five Stages to Full Ownership
Stage 1: Co-Op. Stage 2: Digital Village. Stage 3: Toward Unity. Stage 4: A Backbone of Our Own. Stage 5: A Human Right. See also Free Network Movement, Diaspora, A Human Right, and Buy This Satellite.
Google Group: Autonomous Internet
Facebook Page: Autonomous Internet
Phi Beta Iota: Autonomous Internet Posts (85 as of 14 Apr 2011)
Autonomous Internet is a new category under Information Operations (IO) in the Journal of Public Intelligence. This new category will apply to software, hardware, and practices that create a Free Internet that cannot be shut down by anyone. Advanced Cyber/IO will cover everything else that is advanced, including concepts, successes, failures, and organizational issues. Retrospectively we are returning to associate this category with the various OpenBTS and Free Internet posts inspired by the Egyptian Revolution and all that has followed. If it is not obvious, this means among many other things assuring the ability of any individual or organization to obtain their own autonomous system capabilities and addresses, and the ability to open up point to point optical pipes that cannot be controlled by Stone Age mind-sets who think they have a right to charge for access to cyber-space–like air, cyberspace will become an essential for life, not subject to control by predatory corporations and immoral governments. The Netherlands, among others, appears to be on the right track.
External Links:
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Liberation Technology Stakeholders…
09 Justice, 11 Society, Autonomous Internet, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Ethics, IO Technologies
Preliminary List of Stakeholders
Appropedia
Brave New Software
Creative Commons
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Free Network Movement
Free Software Foundation
FreedomBox
Future Forward Institute
New America Foundation
Open Source Ecology
P2P Foundation
Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium
Tor Project Anonymnity Online
Unhosted–Open Web Standard for Decentralizing
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Phi Beta Iota: We disagree on the inclusion of the New America Foundation–they are not stakeholders as much as beltway “think-tank” opportunists, and too heavily reliant on proprietary hooks going nowhere. New Software Foundation has been changed to Free Software Foundation. We would add to the above list:
Autonomo.us
Computers, Freedom & Privacy Conference
Cook Report on Internet Protocol
Free Internet
GNU Operating System
Liberation Technology Project (Standford University)
NetZero Free Dial-Up Internet Access
Technology Liberation Front
Many others will be identified over time.
See Also:
Autonomous Internet [Open, Free, Distributed]
Next Net, Transitional Net, Autonomous Net
Charles Wyble: Autonomous Free Internet
Reference: Internet Freedom–and Control
Serious (Honest) Thinking About US Budget
03 Economy, 07 Health, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Budgets & Funding, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Military
Dear friends,
The three articles below describe major approaches to addressing the deficit — for health care, taxes and the military — that would have a greater impact on America's budget woes than ANYTHING being currently negotiated by Congress and the Obama Administration. Even better, these three things would, if implemented, actually improve the quality of life in the U.S., instead of degrading it, as so many of the current proposals would do. They give a taste of some excellent thinking emerging from the fringes of this “budget crisis” debate.
[After I wrote this I was alerted to another very interesting “People's Budget” recently released with little coverage in the mainstream media, which I recommend to those interested in alternatives.]
When I imagine a Citizens Jury, a Citizens Assembly, or any other randomly selected body of citizens convened to deliberate about the “budget crisis”, this is the kind of information I believe they should be exposed to. We don't need to undermine public health to create affordable health care. We don't need to undermine the wealth of the nation to have a reasonable tax system. We don't need to endanger American security to have a strong, affordable military.
We just need to think a bit outside of the boxes that most mainstream media, pundits, politicians and partisan activists (intentionally) put our minds in, and ask ourselves “What's the REAL problem here — and what would ACTUALLY solve it?”
How to Save a Trillion Dollars
Taxes on the Wealthy: New Top Brackets Needed for the Have Mores
Want to improve US national security? Cut the defense budget.
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US Government Bails Out and Pardons Wall Street, Sends Barry Bonds to Jail–What’s the Difference?
03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth, Power Behind-the-Scenes/Special Interests
Barry Bonds Faces Jail Time While Wall Street Execs Sit Pretty
What’s the difference between Barry Bonds and Goldman Sachs executives? The later was fortunate enough to be questioned by incompetent lawmakers while Bonds ended up in a courthouse with an actual jury and prosecutors.
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“The Goldman guys may have worse batting average than Barry Bonds but they were better educated by their lawyers about they should shouldn’t say. They also had the benefit of being questioned by incompetent people who had no idea about the financial nomenclature at the heart of their allegations,” Singer says.
For more on why and how Wall Street has avoided criminal charges and jail time check out today’s story in the New York Times about how regulators have, in some cases, willingly protected banks and their executives.
Of course, Matt Taibbi’s Why Isn’t Wall Street In Jail? is also a must-read.
