The Open Source Project Lifecycle, Challenges and Opportunties
Paula Hunter on Apr 30, 2013
Presented at OBC2013, San Francisco
SchwartzReport: US Infrastructure Sucks & Rise of Democratic Big Data
03 Economy, Data
Our spending practices, as a country, are completely upside down. We spend endless billions on war instead of what it will take to keep the U.S. functioning as a country, as this report makes clear. Think about what is being said here, just in reference to your own area.
Our Infrastructure Isn’t Ready for Climate Change
ED MAURER and EUGENE CORDERO – Market Watch
This is an excellent essay on the power of data. Big data. It describes the first stages of the emerging Metaview Trend, which is going to change our lives. And has the potential to recreate democracy in an electronic age.
The Rise of Big Data
KENNETH NEIL CUKIER and VIKTOR MAYER-SCHOENBERGER, Data Editor of The Economist and Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at the Oxford U. – Foreign Affairs
David Isenberg: Foreign Affairs on the Rise (and Good) of Big Data
Data, IO Impotency
How It's Changing the Way We Think About the World
Kenneth Neil Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger
Article Summary and Author Biography
EXTRACT
Big data is a resource and a tool. It is meant to inform, rather than explain; it points toward understanding, but it can still lead to misunderstanding, depending on how well it is wielded. And however dazzling the power of big data appears, its seductive glimmer must never blind us to its inherent imperfections. Rather, we must adopt this technology with an appreciation not just of its power but also of its limitations.
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Information overload? • Wearable sports technology raises safety concerns
Data, Design
Information overload? • Wearable sports technology raises safety concerns
Howard Rheingold‘s insight:
If you think the desktop Web and the smartphone were occasions for info-overload, get ready for wearable computing, which isn't waiting for the 2014 release of Google Glass. On ski slopes and on the roads, we're about to embark on a societal experiment regarding the dangers of fragmented attention. How many people will master multiple streams of incoming information while racing down a hill or driving on a freeway? And how many will crash?
Safety advocates say the concept of high-tech displays for goggles — and for other sports eyewear — is information overload run amok, particularly when people are using them at high speeds. Yet Oakley, based in Foothill Ranch, Calif., is one of a handful of sports eyewear companies betting that thrill seekers and athletes crave the equivalent of a cockpit dashboard while skiing, snowboarding, cycling and running. The companies are in the vanguard of the next wave of personal technology, called wearable computing, which promises to further shrink the barrier between users and the information they seek.”
Graphic: 12 Elements in the Universe of Meaning
Cultural Intelligence, Data, Governance, Graphics, Knowledge
Berto Jongman: Wikileaks Illuminates 1.7M US Diplomatic Records (Not Leaked, Simply Made Accessible)
Data
“The innovation is the placing of these documents into one place and in a database which can be searched by the public. That makes them accessible in a way not seen in the past.”
Wikileaks publishes 1.7m US diplomatic records
Wikileaks says it has created the world's largest searchable collection of US diplomatic documents
Wikileaks has published more than 1.7 million US diplomatic and intelligence reports from the 1970s.
They include allegations that former Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi was a middleman in an arms deal and the first impressions of eventual British PM Margaret Thatcher.
The documents have not been leaked and are available to view at the US national archives.
Wikileaks says it is releasing the documents in searchable form.
Much of the work has been carried out by the website's founder Julian Assange while he has been holed up at the Ecuadorean embassy in London.
Jean Lievens: Wikinomics Model for Value of Open Data
Analysis, Architecture, Balance, Citizen-Centered, Data, Design, Graphics, ICT-IT, Knowledge, Policies-Harmonization, Processing, Strategy-Holistic Coherence
A visual model showing the value of open data
Prof. Robert Appleton of Ryerson University recently told me: “In most fields, the language [of communication] is still dominated by words and numbers.” I think he is right. Think about the daily routine in most organizations. We produce reports and strategy papers. We often forget to convey this knowledge into tangible pictures and stories.
Visualize Business Models
I bought the book Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers [72 slides free online at SlideShare] by Alexander Osterwalder. First, this book provides and easy understandable and visual approach for capturing the value and the implications of business models. This book is a useful “ready to use” tool to change the way in which you approach your work. Roger Martin, an advocate for design thinking in business says: “Businesspeople don’t just need to understand designers better – they need to become designers.”
Second, the book itself has a new business model. It is co-created by 470 practitioners.
Value Model of Open Data
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