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Growing the Global Information Commons - apc.au InfoWiki
This paper provides a definition of the global information commons, how this relates to APC's overall mission, development concerns for developing countries and civil society, policy trends and spaces, key actors, an overview of current advocacy and campa
Identifying The Commons - apc.au InfoWiki
The notion of what constitutes the commons has broad interpretations. So to does the information commons. This video will enquire into what is considered an information/knowledge commons through a series of short interviews conducted at the 2008 iSummit i
Slyck News - BitTorrent Made Easy with Speckly
A new BitTorrent search engine dubbed Speckly aims to simplify the file-sharing experience to a mere point and click experience. At first look, the Speckly interface is rather rudimentary. All that’s provided to the end user is the logo and a search box
~C4Chaos: The Internet had already called the election for Obama
Fortunately for Obama, the people running his campaign understand how to deal (or rather forced to deal) with the reality social networks. Team Obama was quick to acknowledge and respond to the protest by posting Obama's explanation for his decision.
FOSS strategies and plans (South Africa)
Open Source Software in Government :: OSS (South Africa)
Government IT Officers Council (GITOC) OSS working group
The Jeff Pulver Blog: PR 203: How to Pitch a Blogger (or at least How to Pitch Jeff Pulver in 2008)
Once you establish a relationship with me, you are encouraged to pitch me again in the future. And as you get to know the kinds of things I find most interesting, you might share with me something you discovered that is outside of the work you are doing.
YouTube - Freedom... at a Free Software meet (Goa)
On the fourth Saturday of each month, a group of volunteer-techies meets at the Goa Science Centre (Miramar), to share knowledge and ideas. Strangely, this free-to-join, non-profit group has been effective over the last eight years
Felix Stalder Explains Key Issue of Our Time « Chief Outhouse Correspondent
this expansion of civil society brought about by these new forms of collaboration not controlled by the state or captured fully by economic interests, has deep political repercussions
SCHED:
The ultimate social scheduling app for your conference, festival, or event.
GridWise at PNNL: More Information: FAQs
GridWise is a vision for the future of the power grid, shared by a new U.S. Department of Energy program initiative and an industry alliance.
Tom Friedman Calls For Green Revolution
We're pre-something. And what we're pre-...is the energy climate era, defined by these five problems going over a tipping point. And how we manage these five problems, I believe, is really gonna define the stability or instability of the 21st century."
Oekonux/Project/Conferences/4thConference/PossibleSponsors/MDDA - OekonuxWiki
sponsorship argumentation
La conoscenza libera » ¿Es la producción de pares explotación capitalista?
Hace un tiempo atrás leí un articulo de Michael Bauwens de la fundación P2P que deja muy en claro algunos temas de la relación entre la explotación y la producción de pares.
Integration - P2P Foundation
(Conceptual) integration is one of the most fundamental processes in intelligent systems, from individuals to societies. It seems to be the optimal method to cope with divergent or conflicting concepts and tendencies. This is perhaps the most fundamental
synthesis: "The Big Squeeze: New Fundmantals for Food and Fuel Markets"
Bio-era recently released a new report describing our latest thinking about the future of food and fuel markets. In the short term, we could be in for an even bumpier ride than we have seen so far. Over the longer term, new technologies (biological and
The learning curve for industry
The learning curve concept for industry states that the input cost, or time, per unit produced decreases by a set percentage every time the cumulative production output doubles. The roots of the learning curve concept go back more than a century to studie
Experience curve effects - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The learning curve effect and the closely related experience curve effect express the relationship between experience and efficiency. As individuals and/or organizations get more experienced at a task, they usually become more efficient at it. Both concep
synthesis: "Laying the foundations for a bio-economy"
The introduction of composable biological parts will enable an engineering discipline similar to the ones that resulted in modern aviation and information technology. As the sophistication of biological engineering increases, it will provide new goods and
SpringerLink - Laying the foundations of the bio-economy
Broad access to foundational engineering technologies is seen by some as a threat to physical and economic security. However, regulation of access will serve to suppress the innovation required to produce new vaccines and other countermeasures as well as
synthesis: A Step Toward Distributed Biofuel Production?
Sunday's New York Times caries an article by Michael Fitzgerald, "Home Brew for the Car, Not the Beer Cup", that describes a potential step toward garage production of biofuels, specifically ethanol.
Home Brew for the Car, Not the Beer Cup - New York Times
WHAT if you could make fuel for your car in your backyard for less than you pay at the pump? Would you?
Change We Can Stomach - New York Times
we are well past the point where small farms are more economical than large ones.
synthesis: The First Meeting of DIYbio.org
Jason Bobe has posted a write -up of a recent meeting of would-be do-it-yourself biological engineers in Cambridge, MA.
DIYbio: Don't Phage Me, Bro
increasingly capable of engineering biological systems that have the potential to do real work in the world. Banana-scented E. coli might be fun, but arsenic sensing bacteria for identifying contaminated water supplies might actually save lives. If underg
DIYbio
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