The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The open software movement is a reaction to the corporate dominance over participation and exclusion. Corporations today are deciding who is allowed to participate in building the future and who is not. The process of choosing who is included and who is excluded is far from a perfect. Once a choice is made, though it …
YouTube (49:07) Robert David Steele – The Open Source Everything Manifestor @ LIBTECH NYC 21 May 2014 LIBTECH Conference Home Page Time: 8-9 pm Title of Presentation: The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, & Trust Presenter: Robert David Steele Short Description: The Open Source Everything Manifesto is presented in the context of key negative …
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The right to infrastructure: a prototype for open source urbanism Alberto Corsín Jiménez Abstract. This paper develops an analytical framework to place the rise of open source urbanism in context, and develops the concept of the ‘right to infrastructure’ as expressive of new ecologies of urban relations that have come into being. It describes, first, …
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Open Data Collection with Ushahidi March 28, 2014 The crowdsourced data collection platform Ushahidi, now assisting activists worldwide, was first created to facilitate public accountability and social activism during crises in its home nation, Kenya. Not surprisingly, Ushahidi is also the name of the non-profit behind the open-source project. Open-Steps.org interviewed the organization’s director of …
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WO#D WorldOpenHashDesign WO#D Manifesto “The present day global set of sovereign states is not capable of keeping peace, and it is not capable of saving the biosphere’s non-replaceable natural resources. What has been needed for the last 5,000 years, has become technologically feasible in the last 100, but not yet politically, is a global body …
Phi Beta Iota: It is increasingly clear that The Most Holy Father Francis, a Jesuit, is likely to be one of the most important voices of this century. This one interview appears to capture the essence of the man, a sinner blessed and chosen by God, to help us all discern and then carry out …
Space radar could predict massive sinkholes a month before they collapse The idea of the ground opening without warning and swallowing you up is nightmare fuel. As populations grow and humans invent new ways to plunder underground resources, sinkholes are only becoming more common—just look at the US sinkhole capital, Florida. But America’s space agency, …
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