The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Apps for Antwerp: From Open Data to Open Services
Since 2012 the City of Antwerp is releasing open data and the datasets keep coming our way, but that is not all what Antwerp is releasing.
Phi Beta Iota: Event date is in the past but worthy of note in relation to location and scope.
This is an amazing story of the difference between middle aged corporate thinking is, and where teenagers born into the computer world are.
A 14-year-old hacker caught the auto industry by surprise
One Student's Exploits Showed Executives How Vulnerable Their Cars Are
ZeroNet – Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and BitTorrent network
https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet
A step in the right direction…
UK parliament calls for Internet to be classified as a public utility
A new report published by the upper house of UK parliament—the House of Lords—has called for Internet access to be reclassified as a public utility. Further, the report says that the UK is falling behind other countries when it comes to both high-speed Internet access (i.e., new fiber-to-the-home and fiber-to-the-node deployments) and universal Internet access—two factors that could significantly affect the UK's ability to compete in the still-rapidly-growing international digital economy. Read full article.
Phi Beta Iota: Dark Fiber — not ISP second-hand leased fiver — the Dutch multi-layer model as documented so ably by Gordon Cook — and a combination of Open Source Everything Engineering and Smart Cities 21 (not to be confused with IBM's faux version of Smart Cities) are the underlying enablers.
“Open Access Antiquarianism is the collective madcap efforts of an archaeologist, a computer scientist, and a structural engineer to push the boundaries of what is possible in the interface between technology and cultural heritage, art and diagnostics.
Excerpts from Stephen Wilson’s Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology that aptly illustrate why Open Access Antiquarianism is seeking to blend our study of technology and archaeology with art:
This Handy Device Will Let You Send Text Messages Even After The Grid Crashes
Communicate without the need for any central connectivity — no Wi-Fi, cell towers or satellites needed. The gadget uses long-range radio waves — between 151-154 MHz — to send messages to other goTenna devices within its range. Depending on the surrounding terrain and elevation, the device can send messages up to 50 miles away. In the city, the range shrinks to roughly 1 mile.
Greece led the way to democracy in ancient times. Will they do it again, and show us how to build a p2p society?
Will Syriza pave the way for a Commons-oriented society?
Andreas Karitzis, member of Syriza’s think tank on digital policies and a candidate MP in the ongoing elections, recently wrote an article in the Greek version of the Huffington Post highlighting the commitment of his party to free/open source technologies, transparency and participatory democracy. Mr. Karitzis claims that Syriza will support the adoption of free/open source software in the public sector and the distribution of public data under Commons-based licenses. It is true that from program to implementation, several steps are required, however the first step seems to have been made: Syriza appears to not only be aware of the advantages of free/open source technologies but also to realize the potential and the new political economy of this emerging proto-mode of production.
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