#OSE Open Source Everything – Page 78 – Public Intelligence Blog

Elsevier is feeling the strong pressure from a world-wide movement to force them into sensibility about sharing. Universities around the world, including MIT, and many other parties, have signed a strong denouncement here.

Buried within the comments, where Elsevier's Alicia Wise is participating, is this statement that I have accepted in agreeing to do an article for Technology in Society — my article will appear at Phi Beta Iota on the same day that the journal is published.

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2015/07/022015/07/01

Jeffrey Jaxen: Blockchaining London Budget

Economics/True Cost, Politics

Making London 100% financially accountable.

“I want to throw City Hall's books wide open”

George Galloway

http://mayorschain.com/

2015/07/012015/07/01

Yoda: US Congress Goes Open Source

Software

House gets green light for open source

The House of Representatives has officially jumped on the open source bandwagon. A June 25 announcement declared that U.S. representatives, committees and staff would be able to procure open source software, participate in open source software communities and contribute code developed with taxpayer dollars to open source repositories.

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2015/06/302015/06/28

Michel Bauwens: P2P Overview

P2P / Panarchy

Our aim is to make peer production autonomous in order to stimulate social and political movements rooted in that autonomy.

Michel Bauwens: Here's What a Commons-Based Economy Looks Like

20 minute YouTube overview

4 videos with 4 minute intros on major themes

2015/06/292015/06/27

Stephen E. Arnold: Technology Can Be Toxic

#OSE Open Source Everything, 03 Economy, 11 Society, Cultural Intelligence

Technology Takes It on the Nose

I put this passage in my quote file:

But technology is not neutral – and neither is code nor numbers. There are human, subjective judgments lurking behind the apparent objectivity offered by algorithms and the “user-friendly” operating systems. These technologies perform almost magically, while at the same time enabling all sorts of organizations to easily collect information about us, something that makes it that bit easier to usher in new forms of surveillance and control.

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2015/06/27

OPEN POWER: Electoral Reform Act of 2015 – Open Source Activist Tool-Kit

Access, Cultural Intelligence

For those who want to avoid demonizing the two-party tyranny, whose “leaders” may wish to consider participation in a national conversation, we have created a new cover for the book, and made it the default cover at Amazon. The original cover is below the fold and the book available with that cover on request (epub or emob or doc).

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2015/06/272015/08/19

NATO Strategic Foresight Wrap-Up

#OSE Open Source Everything, Commercial Intelligence, Earth Intelligence

Create an account or log-in to harvest the three days of consideration of strategic foresight across multiple domains: http://innovationhub-act.org/

New joins are welcome at any time. The next planned event is ….

ROBERT STEELE: My own wrap-up comments are below.

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