Hypothes.is: Coalition of 40+ Scholarly Publishers

On Tuesday, we announced a major new initiative to bring this vision to reality, supported by a coalition of over 40 of the world’s essential scholarly organizations, such as JSTOR, PLOS, arXiv, HathiTrust, Wiley and HighWire Press, who are linking arms to establish a new paradigm of open collaborative annotation across the world’s knowledge. Read full first …

Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Beth Simone Noveck

Beth Simone Noveck directs The Governance Lab and its MacArthur Research Network on Opening Governance. GovLab designs and tests technology, policy and strategies for fostering more open and collaborative approaches to strengthen the ability of people and institutions to work together to solve problems, make decisions, resolve conflict and govern themselves more effectively and legitimately.

Jean Lievens: Exovate NL – Open Innovation

Exnovate is a platform bringing together companies that are experienced or interested in open & collaborative innovation.  As several captains of industry, government officials and academic peers gradually learned about the topic of open innovation, they soon welcomed the idea to create a European Hub for knowledge exchange on collaborative forms of innovation.

Stephen E. Arnold: Entity Extraction Demands Human Intermediation — Computers Cannot Do It All….

Entity Extraction: Human Intermediation Still Necessary I read “Facebook Should Be Able to Handle names like Isis and Phuc Dat Bich.” The article underscores the challenges smart software faces in a world believing that algorithms deliver the bacon. Entity extraction methods requiring human subject matter experts and dictionary editors are expensive and slow. Algorithms are …

Ty Simpson: Reflections on the Breakaway – Distributed, Decentralized, Encrypted, Blockchain Networking

My notion, with considerable help from intelligent people like yourself, is that the World is already on Breakaway Course.  Old and new titans will be circumvented by Radical Heterarchy. The generation behind me, the 30 somethings have Network Heterarchy written in their conditioning from school.  They were molded by the internet.  The generation behind them, …

The Future: Recent “Core” Work by Robert Steele UPDATED

استخدام جوجل ترجمة للقراءة باللغة العربية 使用谷歌翻译在中国阅读 Использование Google Translate для чтения на русском языке Google Türkçe Oku Çevir kullanın SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-Future Big Ideas: Applied Collective Intelligence, Information Peacekeeping, Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) — creating a prosperous world at peace by achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) at  10% – 25% of existing …