Category: #OSE Open Source Everything

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Creative Commons: Open Definition 2.0

Access, Data

creative commons licenseOpen Definition 2.0 released

Today Open Knowledge and the Open Definition Advisory Council announced the release of version 2.0 of the Open Definition. The Definition “sets out principles that define openness in relation to data and content,” and is the baseline from which various public licenses are measured. Any content released under an Open Definition-conformant license means that anyone can “freely access, use, modify, and share that content, for any purpose, subject, at most, to requirements that preserve provenance and openness.”

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Berto Jongman: #Global_Witness & #OKFN Exposing Corruption in Data via #OpenData

Advanced Cyber/IO, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Data
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Global Witness and Open Knowledge – Working together to investigate and campaign against corruption related to the extractives industries

Sam Leon, one of Open Knowledge’s data experts, talks about his experiences working as an School of Data Embedded Fellow at Global Witness.

Phi Beta Iota: We are seeing convergence.  See also #TrueCost and #ConflictFree

See Also:

Robert Steele: Kudos to Intel – #ConflictFree Toward #TrueCost?

Berto Jongman: #ConflictFree $201 Billion in Consumer Economics Full of Conflict Minerals [and Oblivious of #TrueCost]

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Jean Lievens: How the Sharing Economy is Booming Without Hurting the Environment

03 Economy, Cultural Intelligence, Economics/True Cost
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

How the Sharing Economy is Booming Without Hurting the Environment

LIST ONLY

1. Minimizes manufacturing costs
2. Minimizes distribution costs
3. It lessens the need for consumption
4. It brings awareness to green strategies

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Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon (and CIA) Breaking Oracle — the Surveillance State Goes Open Source

Data, IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Amazon and Oracle: The Love Affair Ends

I recall turning in a report about Amazon’s use of Oracle as its core database. The client, a bank type operation, was delighted that zippy Amazon had the common sense to use a name brand database. For the bank types, recognizable names used to be indicators of wise technological decisions.

I read “Amazon: DROP DATABASE Oracle; INSERT Our New Fast Cheap MySQL Clone.” Assume the write up is spot on, Amazon and Oracle have fallen out of love or at least beefy payments from Amazon for the sort of old Oracle data management system. This comment becomes quite interesting to me:

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中国 OSE Translator — Chinese — Steven He

Chinese
Steven He
Steven He

My name is Steven He, and I am an instructor in translation at Xi’an Fanyi University in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China.

I majored in English at SIAS International University in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, and after graduating in 2004, I went on to pursue my  postgraduate studies in translation at Xi’an International Studies University, with a view to doing more professional translation and interpretation.

In my current position at Xi’an Fanyi University, I am able to continue my own academic pursuits while teaching, and also to take on translation projects that I feel good about. I am honored and happy to translate this important work into Chinese and hope that it can be read and appreciated by more people here.

OSE Manifesto in Chinese – Chapter 1

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RIck Robinson: Building Cities with Open Source Everything

#OSE Open Source Everything
Rick Robinson
Rick Robinson

From concrete to telepathy: how to build future cities as if people mattered

EXTRACT

There are many issues of policy, culture, design and technology that we need to get right for this to happen, but the main objectives are clear:

  • The data from city services should be made available as Open Data and through published “Application Programming Interfaces” (APIs) so that everybody knows how they work; and can adapt them to their own individual needs.
  • The data and APIs should be made available in the form of Open Standards so that everybody can understand it; and so that the systems that we rely on can work together.
  • The data and APIs should be available to developers working on Cloud Computing platforms with Open Source software so that anyone with a great idea for a new service to offer to people or businesses can get started for free.
  • The technology systems that support the services and infrastructures we rely on should be based on Open Architectures, so that we have freedom to chose which technologies we use, and to change our minds.
  • Governments, institutions, businesses and communities should participate in an open dialogue, informed by data and enlightened by empathy, about the places we live and work in.

If local authorities and national government create planning policies, procurement practises and legislation that require that public infrastructure, property development and city services provide this openness and accessibility, then the money spent on city infrastructure and services will create cities that are open and adaptable to everyone in a digital age.