#OSE Open Source Everything – Page 92 – Public Intelligence Blog

Why I think Manufacturing Software should embrace Open Source

Andy at Phase2Automation

Reasons: quality, value for the customer, value for the integrator, ecosystem, talent.

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Patrick Meier: Crowdsourcing Imagery Analysis to Create 3D Point Clouds for Disaster Response

Crowd-Sourcing, Knowledge, Sources (Info/Intel)

Crowdsourcing Point Clouds for Disaster Response

Point Clouds, or 3D models derived from high resolution aerial imagery, are in fact nothing new. Several software platforms already exist to reconstruct a series of 2D aerial images into fully fledged 3D-fly-through models. Check out these very neat examples from my colleagues at Pix4D and SenseFly: Read more.

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Noah Skocilich: Our Most Important Task

Access, Crowd-Sourcing, Design, Governance, P2P / Panarchy, Politics, Resilience

2015/04/092015/04/09

Ellen Brown: How America Became an Oligarchy

Economics/True Cost, Money

How America Became an Oligarchy

Taking back democracy starts with money and banking.

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The stages of the capture of democracy by big money are traced in a paper called “The Collapse of Democratic Nation States” by theologian and environmentalist Dr. John Cobb. Going back several centuries, he points to the rise of private banking, which usurped the power to create money from governments…

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Berto Jongman: Iceland’s Money Revolution

Economics/True Cost

Iceland has a radical plan to redefine money

Icelandic officials are thinking about redefining money and ending banking as we know it, Agence France-Presse reports.

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2015/04/08

Jean Lievens: The Unionization of Digital Workers — Next Big Thing?

Access, Culture, Design, Economics/True Cost, Manufacturing, P2P / Panarchy, Politics, Resilience, Sources (Info/Intel)

Phi Beta Iota: Brother Jean has pointed to a Financial Times article for which payment is demanded, good-bye Financial Times. The core material: “Future of work” is a hot topic. Sara Horowitz and Freelancers Union could be indicators of unionization and influence potential. Out of a population of 319 million in the USA, more or less, 53 million are said to be working as free lancers. The future of work, as Richard Wolff has now realized, is dependent on the future of democracy — without electoral reform we cannot bring democracy into the workplace. The future of work — if it is to be characterized by prosperity for all and peace across Earth — demands holistic analytics, true cost economics, and open source everything engineering. Root, however, is OpenPower — Electoral Reform.