20120626 Open Source Everything Highlights

  Are You Ready For The Open Mobile Era? Assessment finds 23% of countries in Open Government Partnership have not submitted an Action Plan Data.gov to spin off cities.data.gov Empowered (Open) DCIM Manages More than just Power Generating Open Courseware using Podcasting, Screencasting, Blogs and Games Integrating the (World) Bank’s Open Data Kilmartin Praises New …

2012 Reality Sandwich: The Open Source Everything Manifesto

The Open Source Everything Manifesto Robert David Steele Reality Sandwich, 13 June 2012 The following is excerpted from The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, & Trust published by Evolver Editions, an imprint of North Atlantic Books. The circumstances underlying this manifesto are stark and compelling: We are at the end of a five-thousand-year-plus historical process …

Review (Guest): Ralph Peters on The Open Source Everything Manifesto – Transparency, Truth & Trust

Robert David Steele Brave, provocative and valuable June 6, 2012 By Ralph H. Peters Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase Read this compact book in an evening–and think about it for a year. Robert Steele long as been one of our most interesting and challenging thinkers (although his writing is clear–a reflection of clear thought), and this book …

Review: The Open Source Everything Manifesto – Transparency, Truth & Trust

Robert David Steele 5.0 out of 5 stars End Result of Quarter Century Walk-About,June 5, 2012 Updated 27 June: Why on earth is this book in top 100 for Espionage? I can only speculate that because I am a former spy, trained over 7,500 intelligence professionals, and have been an arch critic of secret intelligence …

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 2 Open-Source Everything Extract III

On Sale from 5 June 2012 Chapter 2 Open-Source Everything Extract III On the next few pages I list a wide range of “opens” within each of the layers illustrated in the Open-Source Pyramid (Figure 1), strictly to illuminate the wide-ranging, near-universal nature of this meme. This is not a complete list! The order below …

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 2 Open-Source Everything Extract II

Chapter 2 Open-Source Everything Extract II OpenBTS is t he open-source software/hardware combination that replicates cellular phone services using open spectrum, enabling free and very low-cost communications.  Combined with mesh networks and other means of disconnecting from the government/telecommunications monopoly of the grid, OpenBTS is the foundation “liberation technology” and is central to the release …

Michel Bauwens: Is Open Source Hardware Creating an Open World?

Is open hardware creating a more open world? Feature | April 25, 2012 | By Adrian Giordani international science grid this week Just as retro ideas from a bygone era can inspire modern fashion, film, and TV trends, today’s researchers are being empowered by the revival of an innovative technology concept from the past: open-source …