Open Source Everything
1-2 Hours: Lisa Garr (email) is joined by activist and a former CIA clandestine services case officer Robert David Steele for a discussion on his book, The Open-Source Everything Manifesto.
Jean Lievens: Copenhagen Crowd-Sourcing Sustainabilty Sanity
Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence
Why Copenhagen Can Become Europe’s Crowd Capital
The city of Copenhagen is making a public call to citizens, companies and government to make the transition to the new, connected and inclusive economy. With many great cities in the running, it is no mean feat that Copenhagen nabbed the top spot, for two years in a row, as Fast Company’s most innovative city in Europe. According to The Global Innovation Index 2014, Denmark remains one of the world’s top 10 most innovative countries. There is a deliberate attempt all around to model behavior, mindsets and infrastructure for a more efficient, resource -sharing, low impact lifestyle while maintaining a high standard of living which brings me to the question — are efficient cities more crowd dependent or cooperative? Or are crowd supportive cities smarter and more innovative? This isn’t a chicken-egg question but the result of a positive feedback loop underscoring the notion that collaboration breeds inventiveness.
Stephen E. Arnold: Is Amazon the New Enron?
Commercial Intelligence
The Amazon Cloud: From Objects to an “Incredible Figure”
I suppose rural Kentucky is no bellwether for the economic micro climates in which Amazon, Google, eBay, Facebook, and a handful of other companies operate. The big news in Kentucky is General Electric’s rumored sale of the sprawling Appliance Park. The “park” is a misnomer or one of those business euphemisms for acres of concrete and low cost industrial structures popular in the Rust Belt for many years.
I read “Amazon’s Cloud Is One of the Fastest-Growing Software Businesses in History.” I though about euphemisms because when my team and I wrote an analysis of the issues Amazon faced by using certain parts of infrastructure as a way to reduce the costs of online infrastructure, Amazon did not provide verifiable financial data. I had to look at fuzzies like “objects.”
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Eric Liu: YouTube (17:19) Why ordinary people need to understand power
Cultural Intelligence, YouTubeTip of the Hat to Tom Miller of Unlimited You Education.
Berto Jongman: ICANN Creates Controlling Council for the Internet
IO Impotency
ICANN creates ‘UN Security Council for the internet', installs itself as a permanent member
In the same week that the United Nations finally gave up trying to grab control of the internet, a group of three organizations led by domain-name overseer ICANN have launched an effort to become the internet's UN.
Attendees to the launch immediately started questioning the structure, with some asking why a council was needed at all, others asking who would decide on the other members, and all reacting badly to the creation of five permanent members, which the organizers thereafter referred to as “anchor seats”.
SchwartzReport: Communities Booting Big Money Out of Politics
Civil Society, Ethics, Government
With the corruption and gridlock of the Congress and the compromising of the Judiciary the functional domain remaining is local. At this point no one can have any doubt about the pernicious impact of Citizens United, and what has followed. But it is a measure of the level of corruption that this is only superficially discussed in most media. However, as this report describes at the local level where life is actually lived, we are beginning to see healthy pushback.
‘We will only get louder’: Dozens of communities vote to boot big money from politics
Yoda: EU pledges €14m to bring Britain’s open data success to the continent
#OSE Open Source Everything, Data
Data only?
EU pledges €14m to bring Britain’s open data success to the continent
The EU is putting €14m (£10.9m) behind open data in a bid to replicate the success of the UK’s Open Data Institute (ODI). €7.8m will fund the Open Data Incubator for Europe, while the remaining money will go towards a research network and an academy to train data scientists. Announced at the ODI Summit in London, it is the largest direct investment in open data startups in the world.
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