The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
“The School of Data is led by the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) and Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU). The School will provide online training for data ‘wrangling’ skills – the ability to find, retrieve, clean, manipulate, analyze, and represent different types of data.” The School of Data is a collaborative and community-orientated project, and we …
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Your thoughts: Helping sustainable currencies to scale For the forthcoming International Social Transformation Conference on energy currencies, Community Forge is preparing a paper on grass roots strategies for sustainable currency implementation. 2012-05-18 Helping-Sustainable-Currencies-to-Scale 1.0 Phi Beta Iota: Good ideas overly complicated. The core idea is that software eliminates overhead — no printing of money, full transparency (end to …
New books advocate ‘open source’ model for nanotechnology Franco Iacomella16th May 2012 Source: UTS Nanotechnology and Global Equality, by Dr Donald Maclurcan, and Nanotechnology and Global Sustainability, edited by Dr Maclurcan and Dr Natalia Radywyl, build the case that global prosperity now demands innovation without economic growth, and nanotechnology shows such innovation is possible. “Practices …
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Phi Beta Iota: This is one of the most elegant trenchant discussions we have seen on the imperatives for arriving at collective intelligence through open methods. The entire contribution is below the line. Debating the Iron Law of Bureaucracy and the Power Law: Knowing Networks as an alternative to scale-free networks Franco Iacomella, 2nd May …
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Why we need to bypass electrical utilities if we want to build a low carbon society Excerpted from Bill St. Arnaud: “I have long argued that we need to bypass electrical utilities if we want to build a low carbon society. Utilities, even if they are publicly owned, have an inherent economic incentive to use …
Evolving Towards a Partner State in an Ethical Economy Reality Sandwich, 4 April 2012 In the emerging institutional model of peer production, most visibly in the free software industry, we can distinguish an interplay between three partners, i.e. 1) a community of contributors that create a commons of knowledge, software or design; 2) an enterpreneurial …
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Essay of the Day: From Open Source to Open Sourcing Digital Medical Devices Excerpted from Glyn Moody: “It is not just an issue for life-saving medical devices that can kill as well as save: it is about our increasing reliance on embedded software in everyday life, in developed countries at least. Clearly, we can’t. If …
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