Source Figure 14
Graphic: UN 14 Open-Source Decision-Support Information Network (UNODIN) Pyramid
Graphics, ICT-IT, Innovation, Multinational Plus, Policies-Harmonization, United NationsGraphic: UN 15 UNODIN as Service of the Commons — Five Layers
Analysis, Balance, Budgets & Funding, Capabilities-Force Structure, Earth Orientation, Graphics, ICT-IT, Innovation, Leadership-Integrity, Multinational Plus, Policies-Harmonization, Political, Processing, Reform, Resilience, Strategy-Holistic Coherence, Threats, Tribes, True Cost, United Nations
Source Figure 15
Berto Jongman: The Library of Utopia
Advanced Cyber/IO, Knowledge
Google's ambitious book-scanning program is foundering in the courts. Now a Harvard-led group is launching its own sweeping effort to put our literary heritage online. Will the Ivy League succeed where Silicon Valley failed?
By Nicholas Carr on
MIT Tecnology Review, April 25, 2012
In his 1938 book World Brain, H.G. Wells imagined a time—not very distant, he believed—when every person on the planet would have easy access to “all that is thought or known.”
The 1930s were a decade of rapid advances in microphotography, and Wells assumed that microfilm would be the technology to make the corpus of human knowledge universally available. “The time is close at hand,” he wrote, “when any student, in any part of the world, will be able to sit with his projector in his own study at his or her convenience to examine any book, any document, in an exact replica.”
Graphic: UN-Centric Global Information-Sharing
Analysis, Capabilities-Force Structure, Earth Orientation, Graphics, ICT-IT, Multinational Plus, Policies-Harmonization, Reform, Strategy-Holistic Coherence, Tribes, United Nations
Rickard Falkvinge: Brasil Kills Internet Bill, Loses Way
Access, Corruption, Government, IO Impotency
Brazil Squanders Chance At Geopolitical Influence; Kills Internet Rights Bill In Political Fiasco
Infopolicy: Yesterday, the Brazilian parliament effectively killed the much-heralded Internet Bill of Rights, the Marco Civil, that had been praised by entrepreneurs and free-speech activists worldwide. This follows a ridiculous watering-down and dumbing-down of the bill, at the request of obsolete industry lobbies. Having been permanently shelved, this means that Brazil has practically killed its chance of leapfrogging other nations’ economies – BRICS is now just RICS.
The Internet Rights bill in Brazil, the Marco Civil, was a marvel. It would have enabled Brazil to leapfrog most other economies today, skipping a whole generation of industries.
The Marco Civil would have established that;
- Internet access is a precondition for exercising citizenship;
- As such, nobody may be cut off from the Internet for any other reason than failure to pay the connection fees;
- The messenger immunity was almost absolute – nobody had any kind of accountability for carrying messages for a third party unless explicitly told so by a judge on a case-by-case basis;
- Net neutrality was written into law;
- All Internet regulation had to be based on preserving openness, participatory culture, and the open entrepreneurship that the Net brings;
- Privacy applies online and must not be violated;
- and much more.
Really, it was that good. Read it for yourself (in English).
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SmartPlanet: Solar and Wind Energy Challenge Funding of Fossil Fuel
SmartPlanet
Solar group to World Bank: Give us gas and oil’s $12B, and we’ll cool planet
Siemens: 880m euros’ worth of wind power orders since July
Phi Beta Iota: The current approach to solar and wind is mis-directed toward the traditional centralized capture and downstream distribution. Those costs are waste. Micro-girds, neighborhoods combining solar, wind, biogas, ambient, and all other forms of non-fossil fuel energy — including human bicycle power — is the lowest cost, smallest footprint, most sustainable approach to powering humanity.
Pierre Cloutier: Independence vs. Secession
Culture
Too many people consider secession bad, and do not understand the original right of independence. Here is a YouTube in Spanish with English sub-titles is relevant to Groeland, Scotland, Quebec, and Catalunya.
This documentar [y directed by Dolors Genovès and broadcasted by Televisió de Catalunya compares the reality of Greenland, Scotland and Quebec with Catalonia, and reflects about the following questions: Is independence/secession democratic? Would these new states be economically viable? How would EU react?
English subtitles. More information : http://www.tv3.cat/adeuespanya
