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Ty Simpson: Crypto = Trust = Decentralization = A Prosperous World at Peace

#OSE Open Source Everything
Ty Simpson
Ty Simpson

Crypto Enlightenment: A Social Theory of Blockchains

Melanie Swan: There is something new and fundamental happening in the world which could be the start of the next enlightenment period. The core of this is shifting from centralized to decentralized models in all aspects of our lives, both individual and societally.   . . .   Blockchain technology is technical (cryptographic ledgers); economic and political (a flatter more-extensible mode of organization); and psychological, sociological, and philosophical (new ways of conceiving reality). The real invitation and potentiality of blockchain technology is to radically rethink reality – what is it to decentralize everything we do and reconstitute life through a frame of abundance and immanence, attending to what is possible and desirable mindfully, not merely a reaction to a reality which seems determined by scarcity.

 

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Tom Atlee: How Tunisia Imagined Its Future

Design, Politics
Tom Atlee
Tom Atlee

What's this message is about: Within a month of toppling its dictator, Tunisia’s 2011 Arab Spring revolution was bogged down with a struggling transition government and a countrywide general strike. An ad agency that identified with the revolution (and needed the country to get back to work in order to sell its clients’ products!) decided to get all of Tunisia vividly imagining a better future. They convinced six brands and five major Tunisian media to spend one day together carrying nothing but stories as if it were three years later and Tunisia had become a prosperous, modern, democratic country. By the evening of that day people all over the country were imagining and debating the destiny of Tunisia on Twitter, on a special website, and in streets, homes, and media across the land. Suddenly returning to work became a revolutionary act. This post explores the implications of that remarkable event for the rest of us, and for democracy itself.

Imagine a country imagining its future together. It did!

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EVENT: 20 Jan 2016 London Call for Papers Decentralizing the Commons and the Internet

#Events, #OSE Open Source Everything
David Solomonoff
David Solomonoff

Call for Papers: Decentralizing the Commons

These centralized choke-points can be used by governments to increase surveillance (as disclosed by the Snowden revelations), to blackout the Internet (e.g. Egypt, Syria, or San Francisco’s BART), or to restrict the activities of activist organizations (such as Wikileaks). It has now become clear that it is not enough to develop free/libre/open source (FLOSS)alternatives, if we do not as well endeavor to re-decentralize the Internet.

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Phillip Davis: Open Source GIS for Everyone – A QGIS-based program at Lagara College Vancouver

Geospatial
Phillip Davis
Phillip Davis

Open Source GIS for Everyone: A QGIS-based program at Langara College Vancouver

Until now the learning of GIS has not spread as widely as it could, in large part because of the high cost of GIS software. The benefits of GIS have been limited to large organizations, governments, and academia. Where is the GIS for the average person? In September 2013, QGIS 2.0 was released, answering the question posed above. This GIS software, released under a Free and Open Source (Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0) license, offers a credible alternative to commercial GIS programs. Now everyone can do GIS, regardless of their budget for software. Individuals, small businesses, charities, political parties, First Nations, journalists and numerous other groups can now harness the power of GIS for their own purposes.  Read full article

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DefDog: John Hamre Gets It Wrong — and Politico Lets Him Slide — “Electronic Pearl Harbor” is Original to Winn Schwartau

#OSE Open Source Everything, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Ineptitude, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency, Peace Intelligence
DefDog
DefDog

The ‘electronic Pearl Harbor’
Eighteen years ago I was the first to use that term publicly. It was the wrong analogy then. Not anymore.

The phrase became a touchstone in the long national argument over cybersecurity, for better or worse. I was not the author of the phrase. That honor goes to a dear friend of mine, retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Tom Marsh, who had just led a national commission looking at cyber vulnerabilities. Tom came to my office to summarize the findings and used the Pearl Harbor metaphor.

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Yoda: Matt McAlister on Need for $1B Journalism Fund

#OSE Open Source Everything, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Economics/True Cost, Knowledge, P2P / Panarchy, Sources (Info/Intel)

yoda with light saberGoogle and Facebook as the dark force…

Silicon Valley should follow Google and create a $1bn journalism fund

of Publish.org

The Guardian

EXTRACT

Europe has assumed the role of digital media regulator in the apparent absence of a moral compass within these platforms that exert increasing influence over our lives.

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