Sepp Hasslberger: Toward a People’s Internet
The internet will really have to be the people’s property… Towards a people’s Internet Complete book by the chapter below the fold.
African Governments Sell Out Farmers on Seeds
African governments sell out their farmers in secret seeds protection deal African governments, ignoring the protests of their farmers and civil society, this week agreed an oppressive ‘plant variety protection protocol’ that will open up their countries to commercial seed monopolists, while limiting farmers rights to save, use, exchange, replant, improve, distribute and sell the …
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Antechinus: EU Blocks Library Access to Knowledge — Refuses to Be Serious About Copyright Reform
EU blocks progress on international copyright reform for libraries (again) Once again, the European Union (EU) has blocked progress at the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights (SCCR) that met in Geneva from 29 June-3 July 2015. And this time, the EU is more isolated. The Committee is discussing copyright …
Berto Jongman: Brookings Discovers Military-Industrial Complex a Closed System Shutting Out New Technologies
There’s no app for that: Disrupting the military-industrial complex EXTRACT These barriers significantly limit the government’s access to human capital, intellectual property, and potentially disruptive innovation in other more agile segments of the economy.
Robin Good: Humans Not Google Key Trusted Sources
Trust Chain: Low (Media), Medium (Search Engines), High (Human) It is only a matter of time before trusted aggregators and human curators will become the main sources of reliable information for most people. In fact, the January release of the 2015 Edelman Trust Barometer shows that for the first time ever, the informed public trusts more search …
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2014 Robert Steele Applied Collective Intelligence
Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-ACI As published: Spanda CI–Applied collective intelligence Citation: Steele, R.D. (2014) “Applied Collective Intelligence: Human-Centric Holistic Analytics, True Cost Economics, and Open Source Everything,” Spanda Journal (Vol. 2, pp 127-137) ABSTRACT: The emerging discipline of Collective Intelligence (CI) has been mis-directed by a combination of the faddish focus on “wisdom of the crowds” …
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Stephen E. Arnold: Does Amazon Lack Integrity? Where is Due Diligence on Authorship (Including Kindle Spam Fraud Books from Pakistan and India)?
Amazon: Not Right for Some Authors I wanted to call this write up Godforsaken ID. But you might plug in the letter “C” or you might not. I suggest you track down a dead tree edition of the still dog paddling New York Times. Check out the business section and look for the Google pleasing …
