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Helsinki will host the first Open Knowledge Festival from September 17th to 22nd, 2012. The event, organized by The Open Knowledge Foundation (UK), The Finnish Institute in London and the Aalto Media Factory, will focus on the value that can be generated by opening up knowledge, the ecosystems of organisations that can benefit from such sharing and the impacts transparency can have in our society.

The OKFestival combines for the first time two annual events dedicated to open knowledge and information sharing: the Open Government Data Camp (OGDCamp), that last year gathered over 400 representatives of more than 40 nations in Warsaw (Poland), and the Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon), last year in Berlin (Germany).

The OKFestival 2012 programme features lectures, workshops, hackathons, satellite events, meetings, film screenings and participatory sessions. Thirteen main topic streams will be presented during the event: from Open Democracy and Citizen Movements to Open Cities, from Open Research and Education to Open Source Software, from Data Journalism and Visualisation to Gender and Diversity in Openness.

Learn more.

2012/07/03

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 7 Public Intelligence and the Citizen Extract III

Manifesto Extracts

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 7 Public Intelligence and the Citizen Extract III

[In combination with free OpenBTS mobile telephony for the five billion poor] I see cities, countries, nations, regions recognizing that the relatively minor cost of a call center is well worth its benefits–capable of all necessary languages and able to handle the load of calls with a mix of centralized and distributed participants, some paid, most volunteers. This then becomes the lever that will move the community or nation out of poverty and into a position where the distributed intelligence of the community or nation is able to create infinite wealth while also achieving a sustainable peace.

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The essence of this manifesto is found in the proven fact that transparency and truth foster trust, and trust lowers the cost of doing business. The industrial era carried the information pathologies to extremes and enabled corruption at the highest levels, using secrecy to avoid accountability.

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Empowered by open software, hardware, spectrum, data access, and intelligence, we are within reach of open democracy.

By the Case: The Open Source Everything Manifesto

Review of the Book by Ralph Peters … Manifesto Extracts at Phi Beta Iota … Book Page at Amazon . Book Page at Barnes & Noble . Book Page at McNallyRobinson . Book Page at North Atlantic Books (Publisher) . Book Page at Powell’s Books . Book Page at Random House . Book Page at Super Book Depot

2012/07/03

Graphic: Open Source Everything

Graphics

Source

2012/07/03

Berto Jongman: Spreadsheet of 1,252 TED Talks

Knowledge

URL, speaker, topic, short summary.

TED Talks as of 05.30.12

2012/07/03

Patrick Meier: SMS Advanced Search Capability for Crises

Geospatial, Knowledge, P2P / Panarchy

Finally, A Decision-Support Platform for SMS Use in Disaster Response

Within weeks of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, I published this blog post entitled “How to Royally Mess Up Disaster Response in Haiti.” A month later, I published another post on “Haiti and the Tyranny of Technology.” I also called for an SMS Code of Conduct as described here. Some of the needs and shortcomings expressed in these blog posts have finally been answered by InfoAsAid‘s excellent Message Library, “an online searchable database of messages that acts as a reference for those wanting to disseminate critical information to affected populations in an emergency.”

Graphic at Source

“If used in the correct way, the library should help improve communication with crisis-affected populations.” As my colleague Anahi Ayala explains with respect to the disaster response in Haiti,

“One of the main problem that emerged was not only the need to communicate but the need for a coordinated and homogeneous message to be delivered to the affected communities. The problem was posed by the fact that as agencies and organizations were growing in number and size, all of them were trying in different ways to deliver messages to the beneficiaries of aid, with the result of many messages, sometimes contradicting each other, delivered to many people, sometimes not the right receiver for that message.”

Continue reading “Patrick Meier: SMS Advanced Search Capability for Crises”

2012/07/032012/07/03

P2P Open Source In Depth: Open Manufacturing

Knowledge, P2P / Panarchy

220px-Michel_Bauwens_crop — Michel Bauwens

Open Manufacturing at P2P Foundation