20120626 Open Source Everything Highlights

  Are You Ready For The Open Mobile Era? Assessment finds 23% of countries in Open Government Partnership have not submitted an Action Plan Data.gov to spin off cities.data.gov Empowered (Open) DCIM Manages More than just Power Generating Open Courseware using Podcasting, Screencasting, Blogs and Games Integrating the (World) Bank’s Open Data Kilmartin Praises New …

The Open Source Everything Manifesto Chapter 6 Whole-Systems Thinking Extract III

The Open Source Everything Manifesto Chapter 6 Whole-Systems Thinking Extract III Even before the digital information explosion, the rapid expansion of scientific, social scientific, and humanities knowledge led to the fragmentation of academic disciplines, and then increasing fragmentation as sub-disciplines developed.  Figure 14 depicts how little of the knowledge can be accessed via online search, …

Manifesto for Open Research

Manifesto for Open Research Michael Gilding reviews a lively manifesto for an important cause Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science By Michael Nielsen Princeton University Press | $37.95 N 2009 Tim Gowers – a mathematician at Cambridge University and a recipient of the prestigious Fields Medal – used his blog to invite readers …

Michel Bauwens: The Sharing Economy – Conversation with Links

El Correo de las Indias English edition The “Sharing Economy,” the “economy of the commons,” deserves and needs a point of reference equivalent to the large institutions of European social theory. Via GAIA: Global Alliance for Immediate Alteration Production, not consumption; Economics of the Commons, not Sharing Economics For a “Somewhere School of Sharing Economics” …

2012 Reality Sandwich: The Open Source Everything Manifesto

The Open Source Everything Manifesto Robert David Steele Reality Sandwich, 13 June 2012 The following is excerpted from The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, & Trust published by Evolver Editions, an imprint of North Atlantic Books. The circumstances underlying this manifesto are stark and compelling: We are at the end of a five-thousand-year-plus historical process …

Tom Atlee: Occupy Adopts Open Everything Meme

Occupy Rio+20 Publishes Open Source Imperative The following statement will be presented by the Earth Summit WG to the United Nations as a participating group in the Rio+20 conference in Brasil. The Open Source Imperative Hello World, We Who Occupy The Earth thank the UN for supporting civil society through granting us “interested party” status …