This handbook was created to address the principle challenge for good governance — waste — and the stink that accompanies waste. The solutions in this handbook will, in our view, scale.
Jean Lievens: The Do It Yourself Maker Movement
Hardware, Manufacturing, Materials, Resilience, Software, Transparency
“In this chapter, we investigate the maker subculture and its manifestation in fabbing ecosystem. In other words, how the love of making things, hacking, tinkering, circuit bending and doing/making everything so-called DIY is a significant peculiarity of Fab Labs. We first look at the meaning and the emergence of the maker subculture and the development of hackerspaces and shared machines shops. Secondly, we explore how the maker community is shaped and organized. In a third point, this chapter details a Fab approach of architecture, art and fashion. Finally, we see how hobbyists moved from do-it-yourself (DIY) to do-it-together (DIT) activities with examples of making music instruments and biotech.”
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John Robb: The Produce It Yourself (PiY) Revolution – A World of Abundance
Resilience
The PiY Revolution. A World of Abundance.
Here’s some advice you don’t hear often:
Use all the energy, water, and food you desire.
No really. Do it.
However, there is one catch. In order to follow this advice, you will need to Produce it Yourself (PiY).
Produce it where you live. Grow the food. Generate the electricity. Harvest the water.
You’ll find this changes everything.
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Patrick Meier: Analyzing Foursquare Check-Ins During Hurricane Sandy — Coment on Why Free Cell Phones for the Five Billion Poor Needed
Crowd-Sourcing, Geospatial, Resilience
“When rare events at the scale of Hurricane Sandy happen, we expect them to leave an unquestionable mark on Social Media activity.” So the authors applied the same methods used to produce the above graph to visualize and understand changes in behavior during Hurricane Sandy as reflected on Foursquare and Twitter. The results are displayed below .
“Prior to the storm, activity is relatively normal with the exception of iMac release on 10/25. The big spikes in divergent activity in the two days right before the storm correspond with emergency preparations and the spike in nightlife activity follows the ‘celebrations’ pattern afterwards. In the category of Grocery shopping (top panel) the deviations on Foursqaure and Twitter overlap closely, while on Nightlife the Twitter activity lags after Foursquare. On October 29 and 30 shops were mostly closed in NYC and we observe fewer checkins than usual, but interestingly more tweets about shopping. This finding suggests that opposing patterns of deviations may indicate of severe distress or abnormality, with the two platforms corroborating an alert.”
In sum, “the deviations in the case study of Hurricane Sandy clearly separate normal and abnormal times. In some cases the deviations on both platforms closely overlap, while in others some time lag (or even opposite trend) is evident. Moreover, during the height of the storm Foursquare activity diminishes significantly, while Twitter activity is on the rise. These findings have immediate implications for event detection systems, both in combining multiple sources of information and in using them to improving overall accuracy.”
Now if only this applied research could be transfered to operational use via a real-time dashboard, then this could actually make a difference for emergency responders and humanitarian organizations. See my recent post on the cognitive mismatch between computing research and social good needs.
Jean Lievins: The Networked Society — DISRUPTIVE Technology Rules — and the Most Disruptive of All Technologies is C4ISR Technology that is Also Open Source
Architecture, Cloud, Culture, Design, Innovation, Knowledge, P2P / Panarchy, Resilience, SecurityIt’s about doing the impossible – faster
Technology is transforming how everybody builds solutions and faster access to the latest technology gives you an unfair advantage. I work in Silicon Valley and we benefit from that unfair advantage. This is because the technology being invented here is not incremental but disruptive.
EXTRACT:
You will notice the inclusion of Guardtime signatures. By signing all objects with Guardtime signatures it means we no longer have to trust the cloud provider – another game changer! A technology that scales so well it has been included in rysylog.
More background on the accelerating pace of change:
Changing the game
Winning the game
Graphic: Open Source Ecology Global Village Construction Set
#OSE Open Source Everything, Africa, Capabilities-Force Structure, Citizen-Centered, Design, Hardware, Innovation, Manufacturing, Resilience, Resilience
Robin Good: OpenTopic for Multi-Topic Curation
Crowd-Sourcing, Data, Design, Education, Innovation, Knowledge, P2P / Panarchy, Politics, Resilience, Science, Sources (Info/Intel), Transparency
OpenTopic is a news curation service which allows you to aggregate, monitor and filter any number of sources and to publish and share your selected ones to you selected outlets: from your WordPress site, to your social media channels and to your email newsletter engine. Within OpenTopic you can create one or more “Topic” dashboards. These are essentially display pages that aggregate incoming fresh content from the sources you specify. You can jump from one Topic dashboard to the next at the click of your mouse. To curate stories you simpy select the ones that are relevant to your audience and you are provided with an editing module to modify and personalize the story content. At this point you can also select on which one of your outlets (Channels) that story will be published and you can customize the story differently for each one of them. There is even an option that allows you to set-up some form of automated curation, by giving you the option to set up a set of simple rules, which when match, will trigger the publishing of a news story. OpenTopic allows you to hook up to an extended number of possible Channels, making it easy for you to post from one location to your web site, RSS feed, social media and newsletter. Last but not least, OpenTopic integrates a full analytics service, capable of reporting and showcasing the performance of your curation work across stories and distribution channels. My comment: Excellent tool for social media and community managers, as well as web marketing specialists in need to support effectively the finding of relevant news on a topic and the easy publishing to different channels from a centralized platform. Easy to use.
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