Patrick Meier: Surprising Findings – Using Mobile Phones to Predict Population Displacement After Major Disasters

Surprising Findings: Using Mobile Phones to Predict Population Displacement After Major Disasters Rising concerns over the consequences of mass refugee flows during several crises in the late 1970′s is what prompted the United Nations (UN) to call for the establishment of early warning systems for the first time. “In 1978-79 for example, the United Nations and …

20120708 Open Source Everything Highlights

Open Source Everything 20120707 Open Source Everything Highlights Open Source Five Common Myths about Open Source [INFOGRAPHIC] Mandriva Joins OW2 to Spur Enterprise Innovation in the Open Source Community Free/Libre/Open Source (FLOSS, FOSS F/OSS) Event: FOSS.IN Nov.29th- Dec.1st, India Free software campaigner Richard Stallman cancels Israel lectures due to Palestinian pressure Free Software is cooperative …

Michael Bauwens: We could build an open Twitter, but would anyone use it?

We could build an open Twitter, but would anyone use it? Mathew Ingram GigaOm, Jul. 4, 2012 Amid the recent brouhaha over Twitter’s future — which some say is aimed at restricting what developers can do with the real-time information network, in an attempt to monetize it more easily — a number of critics have proposed …

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 7 Public Intelligence and the Citizen Extract III

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 7 Public Intelligence and the Citizen Extract III [In combination with free OpenBTS mobile telephony for the five billion poor] I see cities, countries, nations, regions recognizing that the relatively minor cost of a call center is well worth its benefits–capable of all necessary languages and able to handle …

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 …

Steven Aftergood: Secret Systems Cluttering the Electromagnetic Spectrum

SECRET SYSTEMS CLUTTER THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM The difficulty that the military has in allocating the efficient use of the electromagnetic spectrum for military operations is aggravated by the fact that some of those uses — involving intelligence platforms and sensors — are secret even from military planners themselves, a new Pentagon doctrinal publication notes. “Coordination …