The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Benjamin Franklin understood the truth this report discusses. In his will of 1789, Franklin left money for the building of parks to Boston and Philadelphia, because he believed that creating aesthetic public spaces created greater comity in the community. More than two centuries later we are still learning this lesson. Parks Make us Smarter – …
FESTIVAL HOME PAGE Wednesday, 23.Oct Dom Im Berg 20:00-22:00 Opening Show: Elevate Open Everything? Thursday, 24.Oct Forum Stadtpark 12:00-13:00 Is an open society a free society? 13:30-15:30 Open Democracy 16:00-17:30 Open Source Economy 18:30-20:30 Open Everything? 21:00-23:00 Google and the World Brain (ES,UK/2013) Friday, 25.Oct Forum Stadtpark 09:30-11:30 Commons-based peer production 12:00-13:30 Linux, Apache, Firefox, …
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Enabling Crowdfunding on Twitter for Disaster Response Twitter is increasingly used to communicate needs during crises. These needs often include requests for information and financial assistance, for example. Identifying these tweets in real-time requires the use of advanced computing and machine learning in particular. This is why my team and I at QCRI are developing the …
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Interview with Frank Znidarsic: a registered professional electrical engineer in the state of Pennsylvania. During his many years working in the energy sector, he has personally witnessed the limitations and decline of American industry. Frank has also written numerous peer reviewed and non peer reviewed articles on cold fusion, anti-gravity, and foundational physics and has …
Intentional Communities and Solidarity Economics | Grassroots Economic Organizing From geo.coop – September 12, 12:28 AM The Fall GEO Theme seeks to deepen awareness and understanding of the strong connections between solidarity economic activists and members of intentional communities through the common work they are doing.
Enlivenment: Towards a Fundamental Shift in the Concepts of Nature, Culture, and Politics Our mono-cultural worldview is literally preventing us from understanding the deeper causes of our multiple crises. Author Andreas Weber, in the below essay, gives us a glimpse of the different scientific paradigm now coming into focus. He calls it “Enlivenment,” because the new sciences …
New! Humanitarian Computing Library The field of “Humanitarian Computing” applies Human Computing and Machine Computing to address major information-based challengers in the humanitarian space. Human Computing refers to crowdsourcing and microtasking, which is also referred to as crowd computing. In contrast, Machine Computing draws on natural language processing and machine learning, amongst other disciplines. The Next …
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