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Willow Brugh: Distributed Digital Disaster Response

Crowd-Sourcing, Geospatial, Governance, P2P / Panarchy, Resilience
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Willow Brugh

Willow Brugh on Distributed and Digital Disaster Response

The citizen response to 2012's Hurricane Sandy was in many important ways more effective than the response from established disaster response institutions like FEMA. New York-based response efforts like Occupy Sandy leveraged existing community networks and digital tools to find missing people; provide food, shelter, and medical assistance; and offer a hub for volunteers and donors.

In this talk Willow Brugh — Berkman fellow and Professor of Practice at Brown University — demonstrates examples ranging from Oklahoma to Tanzania where such distributed and digital disaster response have proved successful, and empowered citizens to respond in ways traditional institutions cannot.

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Yoda: Public vs. Private Clouds – Amazon’s Andy Jassy (Public) vs. Red Hat’s Jim Whitehurst (Private)

#OSE Open Source Everything, Cloud
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Got Crowd? BE the Force!
Got Crowd? BE the Force!

Red Hat's CEO is dead wrong about the cloud

A dustup ensues after Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst asserts that the public cloud is ‘obscenely expensive.' Guess who's pushing back?

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Proposed Open Source Everything Sub-Categories

#OSE Open Source Everything
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With over 1,000 pages already rostered under the Category open, we see a need to agree upon and implement a sub-categorization scheme that will help group related personalities, projects, technologies, and goals. Below is a list of proposed sub-categories offered for discussion (will post this bit to social media):

  1. Open Cloud & Spectrum
  2. Open Collaboration & Governance inclusive of Budgets, Games, & Legislation Law, Regulation, Convention inclusive, also forms of transaction including barter, money, credit, time
  3. Open Data Inclusive of Geospatial Data
  4. Open Education, Intelligence, & Research (access, sources, methods, tools)
  5. Open Energy, Water, Food, & Shelter
  6. Open Hardware inclusive of manufacturing and materials
  7. Open Health inclusive of natural cures, healthy environments, Medicine, & Pharmaceuticals
  8. Open Software inclusive of communications, computing, digital transactions, operating systems
  9. Open Space inclusive of design, cities, neighborhoods, civilizations, societies, culture, religion

http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Open_Source_Everything

Use Talk page or send email to robert.david.steele.vivas AT gmail DOT com, this is how I will be spending the next week.

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CRS: 40% of US Adults Are Unemployed

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crs logoPDF (15 Pages): An Overview of the Employment-Population Ratio

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Recent estimates show that employment as a percentage of the civilian population has not returned to pre-recessionary levels. In November 2007, the employment-population ratio was 62.9%, indicating that 62.9% of the adult population had a job in that month. This rate fell steadily during the recession and several months beyond, before stabilizing around 58.5% in October 2009. Between October 2009 and March 2014, the ratio fluctuated within 0.3 percentage points of 58.5%. Since then, the employment-population ratio has climbed slowly to 59.3%, its value in April 2015.

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John Congdon: Public Banking – Golden Rule Network Connecting Individual Equity with Fractional Reserve Banking Reach

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Proposed: that communities create Capital Asset Partnership Trusts (CAPT) in the context of a larger Golden Rule Network

The potential monetized value of equity in real property is tremendous. In the U.S. alone the equity in home ownership is $8.2 trillion. As well, there is the other huge pool of capital with the equity present in commercial properties that can be awakened with the same strategy. Unleashing even a fraction of that capital will have an unequaled and immediate benefit that will be felt all around the world. Just imagine the impact of a well directed trillion dollars of reserve capital multiplied through the fractional reserve system can have on our current and pressing environmental needs! And we can start today!

DOC (12 Pages): The Golden Rule Network

Full text below the fold.

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