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		+	#[http://nursingassistantguides.com/2009/50-successful-open-source-projects-that-are-changing-medicine/ 50 successfull open source projects that are changing medicine]

Medicine 3.0

Mbauwens — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:51:51 GMT

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"Medicine 3.0 has the goal of being a go-to resource for information on the internet about all things health and medical related. Health tools, bookmarks, notes, tricks, and hacks are in abundance

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DIYbio

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	"DIYbio is an organization for the ever expanding community of citizen scientists and DIY biological engineers that value openness & responsibility. DIYbio aims to be an "Institution for the Amateur" -- an umbrella organization that provides some of the same resources afforded by more traditional institutions like academia and industry, such as access to a community of experts, to technical literature and other resources, to responsible oversight for health and safety, and an interface between the community and the public at large."		"DIYbio is an organization for the ever expanding community of citizen scientists and DIY biological engineers that value openness & responsibility. DIYbio aims to be an "Institution for the Amateur" -- an umbrella organization that provides some of the same resources afforded by more traditional institutions like academia and industry, such as access to a community of experts, to technical literature and other resources, to responsible oversight for health and safety, and an interface between the community and the public at large."
	(http://www.diybio.org/)		(http://www.diybio.org/)
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		+	=Description=
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		+	From an interview with Mac Cowell, cofounder of DIYbio:
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		+	'''"What exactly is DIYBio?'''
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		+	DIYbio is a group of people who are interested in doing amateur biotechnology. Amateur, meaning doing something that you love for the sake of doing it. In a broad sense, we’re developing an infrastructure that enables people not in traditional institutions to take advantage of the tools that those institutions typically provide.
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		+	'''Why did you start DIYbio instead of pursuing a PhD or collaborating with an established lab?'''
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		+	I really fell in love with the general idea that biology can be engineered. But I was disappointed with the huge barrier of entry for average people, or for anyone who wants to get involved but is not already in a PhD program. The open-source computer-programming movement became ubiquitous, and computers became a platform that enabled a huge amateur or hobbyist culture of people to push the field further. Many people got organized and started working on projects collaboratively. So why can’t we do that with biology? Why does all biology happen in academic or industrial labs? What’s the barrier to entry for doing something interesting in biology? It’s a four- to seven-year PhD program. There must be another opportunity.
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		+	'''What do amateurs bring to the table that trained scientists don’t?'''
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		+	That’s a great question. The number one thing is a “cross-pollination” of expertise. We are trying to develop the tools that enable people, who might be experts in other areas, to do biology as a hobby in their spare time, bringing some of that expertise to the lab. That way, there is a lot of potential for innovation. For instance, one of the projects that we are working on right now is an “augmented reality benchtop.” There has been a lot of work in the last 10 or 20 years on things like multitouch, big-screen tabletops. What if we made a benchtop for a lab that could recognize the stuff on top of it, walk you through a protocol visually, or connect you to a microscope on the surface of that lab bench and show you what it sees? So that you’re not just scribbling in a lab notebook, you’re actually recording at an equal or better granularity what you’re doing. Another example of where advancements in other fields could apply to biology is pipetting. During experiments, you pipette over and over again, hundreds or thousands of times a day. Every once in a while you might zone out and think, “Oh, my God. Did I just pipette that two times in a row? Five times? I don’t even remember.” Why don’t we just install a little wireless data logger into a pipette that keeps track of how much and every time you press a button? Some of the people we’re collaborating with are installing little wireless data loggers into pipettes that keep track of how many times you press the pipette button. And it only costs $40. Why aren’t all pipettes like that?
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		+	'''Is a crowd-sourced approach especially well suited to synthetic biology?'''
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		+	Synthetic biology aims to make biology easier to engineer by adopting basic engineering principles: modular parts, standardization, abstraction, standard units. And as these practices become more developed, the opportunity for people to do biology on their own increases. As the system of weights and measures is realized, the less you have to be a vertical expert, or a specialist. Furthermore, a crowd-sourced network of hobbyists might help measure and characterize the needed toolbox of thousands of biological parts in the first place. Hobbyists don’t have the same set of goals as PhDs. Measuring things is not very sexy, meaning you probably couldn’t write a paper about it. Many synthetic biologists are having trouble getting papers about different measurement standards published because it doesn’t clearly advance the scientific agenda. Maybe it could be construed as scientific progress, but really, it’s about engineering progress. There’s a lag between what needs to happen to make synthetic biology more of a reality in certain ways. There’s a lot of science that had to happen to make synthetic biology possible. But there’s also a lot of grunt work — measuring, trying different combinations, characterizing — that I think a lot of traditional scientists aren’t necessarily going to do. Scientists who are trying to write their thesis or publish a paper in Nature might not have as much compulsion to perform that initial grunt work.
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		+	'''Does amateur science affect the peer-review process?'''
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		+	Right now that function is being provided mostly by the mainstream publishing industry, which is now a couple hundred years old. These publications have become academic currency. If you want to get tenure, you need the pedigree of having been published in prestigious journals. Until we can find alternative ways of crediting good work, we’re going to be stuck with the existing publishing system. The current way to have a scientific conversation is to take six months to two years to publish a paper, and the paper is the end product of research that’s taken six months, maybe many years. All of that data is stored in lab notebooks. And maybe only the best analysis of that data gets published as an auxiliary file on a publisher’s website, even though useful experimental data was generated much earlier. As we develop tools that make it easier for scientists to capture the process of actually doing research, I think that will enable a faster scientific conversation than the current six-month to two-year process. Software platforms that make it easier for scientists to capture, on the fly, what they are doing at a granular level — that’s what the scientific dialogue is all about.
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		+	'''How do you respond to critics who claim that you’re potentially putting dangerous biological materials in the wrong hands? Or, to use the computer-programming analogy, are you aiding the development of viruses in a very literal sense?'''
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		+	All the hazardous sequences are available publicly from GenBank, etc.: Ebola, H5N1, the 1918 plague; they’re all there. DIYbio won’t change that. We’re looking to mostly focus on doing wet lab work in a very public, transparent group setting. So that if anyone — a neighbor, a governmental agent, a journalist — wants to know what is going on, it’s evident what we are working on. Forming that community is the first defense so that the 99.9999 percent of the group who are positive will stop the .0001 percent of the group that’s negative. Today, at the ground floor, I think it’s best if we blaze a path forward in a very public and open way. A small minority may have unleashed computer viruses over the years, but it’s the computer hacking community at large who created many of the solutions that safeguard us from them."
		+	(http://seedmagazine.com/content/print/the_biohacking_hobbyist/)
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Biotech Hobbyist Magazine

Mbauwens — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:30:50 GMT

Created page with ' = The place on the Web for biotech tinkerers, builders, experimenters, students, and others who love the intellectual challenge and stimulation of hobby biotech ! [http://www.ny...'

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= The place on the Web for biotech tinkerers, builders, experimenters, students, and others who love the intellectual challenge and stimulation of hobby biotech ! [http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/biotechhobbyist/bio_about.html]

URL http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/biotechhobbyist/

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Open-Sourcing Life Science

Mbauwens — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:27:49 GMT

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'''Article: Sophia Roosth. “Crafting the Biological: Open-Sourcing Life Science, from Synthetic Biology to Garage Biotech.“ The Kennedy School of Government STS seminar series, 9 Nov 2009'''

URL = http://diybio.org/2009/11/11/crafting-the-biological/

=Excerpt=

"“Knowing means a personal sort of knowledge, in which quotidian biologies like human bodies or the organisms you might encounter in a produce stand, for example, may be explored and modified. And Making is less about following engineering principles than it is about tinkering and making do, which I claim [DIYbiologists] do to destabilize what counts as legitimate scientific practice.” “Biology, Knowing, and Making, are all concepts up for grabs at this moment in the life sciences (and in this talk). If what historian Philip Pauly called the ‘engineering ideal for biology‘ unfolded in the 20th century within institutionally-sanctioned spaces, then in the 21st we are witnessing synthetic biologists and self-described biohackers recasting the bioengineering project as malleable and explicitly domestic. Think of the personal computing revolution, but for biology.”

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BioWeatherMap Initiative

Mbauwens — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:24:05 GMT

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'''= a global, grassroots, distributed environmental sensing effort aimed at answering some very basic questions about the geographic and temporal distribution patterns of microbial life.'''

URL = http://bioweathermap.org/

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"The BioWeatherMap initiative is a global, grassroots, distributed environmental sensing effort aimed at answering some very basic questions about the geographic and temporal distribution patterns of microbial life. Utilizing the power of high-throughput, low cost DNA sequencing and harnessing the drive of an enlightened public we propose a new collaborative research approach aimed at generating a steady stream of environmental samples from many geographic locations to produce high quality data for ongoing discovery and surveillance. Our approach will provide a unique opportunity to engage the public in the scientific research process while we address fundamental questions such as “How diverse is the microbial life around us?” and “How do microbial communities in different habitats change over time?” and “How can advanced sequencing technologies best be utilized to address issues in biodiversity, public health, and biosurveillance?”

=More Information=

#[[Microbial Commons]]

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Distributed Manufacturing Collaborative Platforms

Elifarley — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:20:45 GMT

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	#[[OSCOMAK]]: '''The OSCOMAK project''' will foster a community in which many interested individuals will contribute to the creation of a distributed global repository of manufacturing knowledge about past, present and future processes, materials, and products. OSCOMAK stands for "OSCOMAK Semantic Community On Manufactured Artifacts and Know-how".		#[[OSCOMAK]]: '''The OSCOMAK project''' will foster a community in which many interested individuals will contribute to the creation of a distributed global repository of manufacturing knowledge about past, present and future processes, materials, and products. OSCOMAK stands for "OSCOMAK Semantic Community On Manufactured Artifacts and Know-how".

-	#The '''~~societal engineering knowledge database~~''' ([~~http://heybryan.org/mediawiki/index.php/Skdb skdb~~]) is a group of programs designed to aggregate, store, present, and process clusters of engineering knowledge, described as 'packages' in analogy to linux software management tools like APT, yum, CPAN, rpm, etc.. These project packages might include simulation and visualization tools for tweaking, development tools to rewrite data about the package, explicit well-documented links to other projects, etc. The success of APT and friends comes not from any magical software intelligence, but rather in the wide-spread social diffusion and easy accessibility: the ability to easily get new components, and just as easily throw them away; users can play with them, see how the work, and implement changes on the spot.	+	#The '''Societal Engineering Knowledge Database''' ([[SKDB]]) is a group of programs designed to aggregate, store, present, and process clusters of engineering knowledge, described as 'packages' in analogy to linux software management tools like APT, yum, CPAN, rpm, etc.. These project packages might include simulation and visualization tools for tweaking, development tools to rewrite data about the package, explicit well-documented links to other projects, etc. The success of APT and friends comes not from any magical software intelligence, but rather in the wide-spread social diffusion and easy accessibility: the ability to easily get new components, and just as easily throw them away; users can play with them, see how the work, and implement changes on the spot.

OneVillage Foundation

Elifarley — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:18:44 GMT

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-	~~About OVF~~	+	#REDIRECT [[One Village Foundation]]
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-	~~URL: http://www.onevillagefoundation.org~~	+
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-	~~==Background==~~	+
-	AIDS Relief Foundation started from a desire to use information and communications technologies (ICTs) to improve the way in which we address the AIDS pandemic in Africa. The central focus was on AIDS, the tragic results of which Joy Tang, ARF’s founder experienced first hand while traveling through Africa.	+
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-	The name "AIDS Relief Foundation" implied that "relief from AIDS". It was determined that the organization's actual focus was on leveraging information and communication technologies to bring people and groups of synergy together with the overarching belief that we are all one (that this planet really is all one big village). This gave rise to the name "oneVillage" as the appropriate replacement.	+
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-	~~As of April 20, 2003, the AIDS Relief Foundation began doing business as the oneVillage Foundation.~~	+
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-	~~==Mission==~~	+
-	OVF sees the challenge and opportunity of using Information Communication Technology (ICT) to address World Urgent Issues, by providing a platform for an integrated approach to sustainable development. People have lost, or stopped practicing, the knowledge of sustainable living. Our mission is to connect art, science and education with proactive, hands on, community oriented actions on the ground that promote more sustainable ways of living in both developing and developed parts of the world. We are devoted to increasing collaboration and access to ICT in under-served communities, facilitating local content creation and dissemination, and building bridges among digital and physical communities globally.	+
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-	~~==Vision==~~	+
-	~~The oneVillage vision entails the creation of ICT centers in rural villages and developing countries connected by a~~ [[~~Collaboration Platform Projects\|collaboration portal]] that allows resource matching, project management, documentation and corruption-free allocation and accounting of funds.~~	+
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-	~~[[Category:Sustainability]]~~	+
-	~~[[Category:Villages]]~~	+
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One Village Foundation

Elifarley — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:17:58 GMT

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	=Description=		=Description=

	OVF's about page is at http://blog.onevillage.tv/?page_id=2		OVF's about page is at http://blog.onevillage.tv/?page_id=2
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		+	=Background=
		+	AIDS Relief Foundation started from a desire to use information and communications technologies (ICTs) to improve the way in which we address the AIDS pandemic in Africa. The central focus was on AIDS, the tragic results of which Joy Tang, ARF’s founder experienced first hand while traveling through Africa.
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		+	The name "AIDS Relief Foundation" implied that "relief from AIDS". It was determined that the organization's actual focus was on leveraging information and communication technologies to bring people and groups of synergy together with the overarching belief that we are all one (that this planet really is all one big village). This gave rise to the name "oneVillage" as the appropriate replacement.
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		+	As of April 20, 2003, the AIDS Relief Foundation began doing business as the oneVillage Foundation.
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		+	=Mission=
		+	OVF sees the challenge and opportunity of using Information Communication Technology (ICT) to address World Urgent Issues, by providing a platform for an integrated approach to sustainable development. People have lost, or stopped practicing, the knowledge of sustainable living. Our mission is to connect art, science and education with proactive, hands on, community oriented actions on the ground that promote more sustainable ways of living in both developing and developed parts of the world. We are devoted to increasing collaboration and access to ICT in under-served communities, facilitating local content creation and dissemination, and building bridges among digital and physical communities globally.
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		+	=Vision=
		+	The oneVillage vision entails the creation of ICT centers in rural villages and developing countries connected by a [[Collaboration Platform Projects\|collaboration portal]] that allows resource matching, project management, documentation and corruption-free allocation and accounting of funds.
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	"For me the idea of OneVillage is we are in Unity as human beings on this earth or we seeking Unity through the evolution of global communciations, systems and processing for communicating in ways that transcend cultural and political barriers. So in creating the Global Village, we consider a new era of human interactions in which indigenous culture and tribal traditions do not necessarily die but rather are reinvented and reconfigured to suit the new global cultural emergence. The Internet thus is a tool not simply to survive in the digital age but also to reinvent ourselves and our local cultural identity within the larger global society context of sharing information and perspectives within a rapidly digitizing society."		"For me the idea of OneVillage is we are in Unity as human beings on this earth or we seeking Unity through the evolution of global communciations, systems and processing for communicating in ways that transcend cultural and political barriers. So in creating the Global Village, we consider a new era of human interactions in which indigenous culture and tribal traditions do not necessarily die but rather are reinvented and reconfigured to suit the new global cultural emergence. The Internet thus is a tool not simply to survive in the digital age but also to reinvent ourselves and our local cultural identity within the larger global society context of sharing information and perspectives within a rapidly digitizing society."
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	So for Soleri the idea is that the Future – while it does not exist in the way that the past and present do/have existed – it does provide a roadmap of potential scenarios upon which we can consider our evolution. The ability of people to use the Internet to effectively articulate an alternative model of development in which greater consideration is given for long term and authentic human and ecological well being (with the idea that you cannnot have one without the other) will lead to a future worth living in the present reality."		So for Soleri the idea is that the Future – while it does not exist in the way that the past and present do/have existed – it does provide a roadmap of potential scenarios upon which we can consider our evolution. The ability of people to use the Internet to effectively articulate an alternative model of development in which greater consideration is given for long term and authentic human and ecological well being (with the idea that you cannnot have one without the other) will lead to a future worth living in the present reality."
	(http://blog.onevillage.tv/?p=1755)		(http://blog.onevillage.tv/?p=1755)
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	=More Information=		=More Information=
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Masdar

Elifarley — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:57:10 GMT

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		+	==See Also==
		+	* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWVsi0UtmgI Masdar City] video on YouTube

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Politics 2.0

Mbauwens — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:15:22 GMT

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	+	By Ismael Peña-López:
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	+	"I here provide my own definition of Politics 2.0, which I needed for a paper I am preparing about Politics 2.0 in Spain:
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	+	* Ideas: not closed and packaged propaganda. Ideas that can be spread, shared and transformed by members of the party and partisans, sympathizers and supporter, and the society at large;
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	+	* Open data: ideas are backed by incredible amounts of data and information made openly available to the general public, and most time provided with open licenses that allow their reuse and remix;
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	+	* Participation: of all and every kind of people and institutions, blurring the edges of the “structures” and permeating the walls of institutions, making communication more horizontal and plural;
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	+	* Loss of control of the emission of the message, that now can be transferred outside of mainstream media and diffused on a peer-to-peer and many-to-many basis by means of web 2.0 tools;
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	+	* Loss of control of the creation itself of the message: being data and participation available, web 2.0 tools at anyone’s reach, and with minimum digital competences, the message can even be created and spread bottom up;
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	+	* Acknowledgement, hence, of the citizen as some who can be trusted (and used) as a one-man think-tank and a one-man communication-media;
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	+	* Reversely, possibility to reach each and every opinion, target personal individuals with customized messages, by means of rich data and web 2.0 tools, thus accessing a long tail of voters that are far from the median voter;
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	+	* Construction of an ideology, building of a discourse, setting up goals, campaigning and government become a continuum that feedbacks in real time."
	+	(http://ictlogy.net/20091223-a-definition-of-politics-2-0/)
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Peter Kruse on the Power of Networks

Mbauwens — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:49:23 GMT

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“Peter Kruse started his career as as a hard core scientist, working as an experimental psychologist,” but later in his business career, “Kruse became successful in transferring the concept of how the brain is functioning into (business and social) networks.”

Video interview via http://blip.tv/play/jDyBvL9qAg

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Alan Shapiro on Leaving Reductionist Science Behind

Mbauwens — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:47:15 GMT

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= “Shapiro’s thoughts include to broaden science, to bring together humanities with biology, physics … and very clearly to leave reductionism behind!”

Video interview via http://blip.tv/play/jDyBw74oAg

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Joy Tang on Networked Improved Community

Mbauwens — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:44:14 GMT

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= Joy was interviewed by Maja Kuzmanovic and discussed the work of Doug Engelbart and Networked Improved Community

Video via http://blog.onevillage.tv/?p=1769

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One Village Foundation

Mbauwens — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:42:34 GMT

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=Description=

OVF's about page is at http://blog.onevillage.tv/?page_id=2

Joy Tang's ideas explained:

"For me the idea of OneVillage is we are in Unity as human beings on this earth or we seeking Unity through the evolution of global communciations, systems and processing for communicating in ways that transcend cultural and political barriers. So in creating the Global Village, we consider a new era of human interactions in which indigenous culture and tribal traditions do not necessarily die but rather are reinvented and reconfigured to suit the new global cultural emergence. The Internet thus is a tool not simply to survive in the digital age but also to reinvent ourselves and our local cultural identity within the larger global society context of sharing information and perspectives within a rapidly digitizing society."
(http://blog.onevillage.tv/?p=1755)

=Background=

"Paolo Soleri’s Arcology (architecture and ecology) theory and vision represent an attempt to link sustainability issues around key areas of development: concerns about consumption, land use and the architecture we create in the form of our habitats. So for Soleri it is the idea of humans building in line with the evolution of the universe. We have not figured that out yet as we are building a human reality that exists not only contrary to the laws of nature but in contempt of them. The vision of Arcology is very similar with oneVillage in the sense that we want to consider how to create prototype centers to replicate a compelling hologram of human innovation within a certain space upon which the nodes of a global and local network come together in a synergistic way to make the best and most optimum use of space, resources and people. This really is the idea of what he calls the Urban Effect in which the greatest and highest potential of human beings is realized. Its there already in many great cities such as NYC, Paris, London and most recently I saw in Taipei and so I specifically refer to the accelerated Urban Effect to define Soleri’s reaching for more optimum levels of human productivity + well being as he envisions in his the Arcology manifestation.

Imagine a place or global network of spaces where people are brought together into a compact urban node and through the intensity of those interactions create new and innovative ideas at a pace that overcomes current trends toward global inertia and entropy of systems towards lower levels of ecological (think of the fact that when ecologies are degraded the lower level species take over and dominate) and urban ecological succession (think Mad Max in that just as with ecological degradation, the lower level life forms take over).

Traditionally rural areas have not been such places of cultural, social, economic and technological innovation, so an human ecology and evolutionary framework emerged in which the most critical and thoughtful thinkers escaped to the cities. Now with the Internet we have the externalization of the City into the Net a global net that spans the globe. We no longer have to migrate to the City to seek and find the preconditions for innovation but simply seek out a computer terminal with an internet connection. The idea is that innovation cannot occurr in a bottle, but rather is a process of interaction with other like minded folk who have similar but not identical goals, values and aspirations. The Internet has simply lifted what has been previously a geographical constraint to tribalization and this poses many questions as to whether the urban rural dichotomy needs to be thrown out the window, particularly when it leads to biased decisions in relation to how modern policymakers overlook some of the more valid and redeeming aspects of rural and indigenous lifestyles when making important decisions about how to proceed in relation to Development.

While Soleri has an urban bias, his ideas can in fact be emulated anywhere there is a desire to reconsider human spatial relationships. Historically this is not without precedent as many preindustrial tribes have sought to live in high density communal environments (such as the Anastazi and most recently the Hopi in northern Arizona). In relation to Soleri’s Arcology theory the view is that as we proceed through the duration of human planetary existence on earth, we evolve towards higher levels of complexity and also in that proceed interiorize, much the same as the way Moore’s Law explains or exposes the process by which is computing capacity increases exponentially it actually uses less space and not more.

So for Soleri the idea is that the Future – while it does not exist in the way that the past and present do/have existed – it does provide a roadmap of potential scenarios upon which we can consider our evolution. The ability of people to use the Internet to effectively articulate an alternative model of development in which greater consideration is given for long term and authentic human and ecological well being (with the idea that you cannnot have one without the other) will lead to a future worth living in the present reality."
(http://blog.onevillage.tv/?p=1755)

=More Information=

#[[Joy Tang on Networked Improved Community]]

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Synaptic Web

Mbauwens — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:33:52 GMT

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'''= The Internet is a sea of conversations, streaming through connections. And these patterns create meaning.'''

URL = http://synapticweb.pbworks.com/

=Description=

Kevin Leversee:

"It is at the synapse, the "gap" between one neuron and another, where neural connections are consummated to create pathways that, when used, are reinforced with additional connections and, when unused, are "pruned" to make way for new, more useful pathways. It is these incredible chemical bridges that define the patterns of communication that, at any given time, define our cognitive capacity.

We believe that this evolving view of neural science provides an increasingly apt metaphor for what we call the "Synaptic Web" in that the connections between objects are more important than the objects themselves. The question is; how are these connections changing to create new experiences? In other words, there is an opportunity to stop looking at the nodes and start looking at the space between them.

The exploding variety, speed and flexibility of electronic connections - those between people, data sets, applications, the real world and the online world, gestures and meaning and content and communication – is at the root of what some have called an evolving “collective intelligence.” Thus, the Synaptic Web is about the evolution of the Internet from document delivery platform, to a platform for communication ("2.0") and now towards something much more profound: a dynamic web of adaptive "organic" and implicit connections whereby real-time information flows give structure and meaning to previously unconnected sets of data. The Internet is a sea of conversations streaming through connections, and these patterns have meaning."
(http://www.slideshare.net/kevinleversee/devcon2010-synapticweb-ver5-full)

=More Information=

#http://www.cloudave.com/link/on-the-synaptic-web

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Open Structures Project

Mbauwens — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:09:54 GMT

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URL = http://openstructures.net/

=Description=

"The OpenStructures (OS) project initiates a construction system where everyone designs for everyone.

It is an ongoing experiment that wants to find out what happens if people design objects according to a shared modular grid, a common open standard that stimulates the exchange of parts, components, experiences and ideas and aspires to build things together."
(http://openstructures.net/pages/2)

=More Information=

#[[P2P Architecture]]

LocalHarvest

Mbauwens — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:01:47 GMT

moved [[LocalHarvest]] to [[Local Harvest]] standard is to avoid camelcase where possible

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Genome Commons

Mbauwens — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:08:12 GMT

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	+	=Resource=
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	+	= The Genome Commons and Genome Commons Navigators are open resources I propose to assist with personal genome interpretation. [http://genomecommons.org/about/]
	+
	+	URL = http://genomecommons.org/
	+
	+	Background at http://genomecommons.org/background/
	+
	+	Info via Steven Brenner <brenner -at- compbio.berkeley.edu> or Reece Hart <reece -at- berkeley.edu>
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Category:IP

Mbauwens — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:44:56 GMT

On Copyright

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	* '''Essay: Jessica Litman. "[[Real Copyright Reform]]."''' [ http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1474929]		* '''Essay: Jessica Litman. "[[Real Copyright Reform]]."''' [ http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1474929]

		+	* [http://www.eff.org/pages/making-p2p-legal Making P2P Legal]: by the Electronic Frontier Foundation

	=Summary=		=Summary=

Money Fix

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		+	URL = http://www.themoneyfix.org/

	=Description=		=Description=

Category:Money

Mbauwens — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:42:06 GMT

Key Documentaries

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		+	#The [[Money Fix]]: video by Alan Rosenblith shown at PBS stations in the U.S. in 2009/2010 [http://www.themoneyfix.org/content/video-money-fix]
	#[[Money as Debt]]		#[[Money as Debt]]
	#The [[Wealth of Neighbors]]		#The [[Wealth of Neighbors]]

Inca Class System

Mbauwens — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:13:04 GMT

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"The Inca were not only fierce conquerors but they also had a violent
punishment system. If someone stole, murdered, or had sex with a Sapa
wife or a Sun Virgin, they were thrown off a cliff, hands cut off or
eyes cut out, or hung up to starve to death. Prisons were of no use
because punishment usually consisted of death" -
(http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/latinamerica/south/cultures/inca.html)

They were clearly a highly developed class society, as outlined in the
wikipedia entry - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca_society :

"The descendants of the original Inca tribe were not numerous enough to
administer their empire without help. To cope with the need for
leadership at all levels the Inca established a civil service system.
Boys at age of 13 and girls at age of first menstruation had their
intelligence tested by the local Inca officials. If they failed, their
ayllu (extended family group) would teach them one of many trades, such
as farming, gold working, weaving, or military skills. If they passed
the test, they were sent to Cuzco to attend school to become
administrators. There they learned to read the quipu (knotted cord
records) and were taught Inca iconography, leadership skills, religion,
and, most importantly, mathematics. The graduates of this school
constituted the nobility and were expected to marry within that nobility.

While some workers were held in great esteem, such as royal goldsmiths
and weavers, they could never themselves enter the ruling classes. The
best they could hope for was that their children might pass the exam as
adolescents to enter the civil service. Although workers were considered
the lowest social class, they were entitled to a modicum of what today
we call due process, and all classes were equally subject to the rule of
law. For example, if a worker was accused of stealing and the charges
were proven false, the local official could be punished for not doing
his job properly.

Social Classes Representatives
Inca

* Sapa Inca

Royalty

* The Auqui: Son of the Sapa Inca.
* The Coya: Wife of the Sapa Inca
* Royal Panacas: First generations of each Pañaca ( royal relative).

Nobility

* Nobility of Blood: Other members of las Pañacas (royal relatives).
* Nobility of Privilege: Those who had attained distinction through
their services; Sacerdotes & Acllas; High chiefs.

Ayllu

* Hatun Runa: The general public.
* Mitimaes: Those belonging to newly conquered races.
* Yanaconas: Servers of the Inca and Empire, many of which were prisoners."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca_society)

[[Category:Governance]]

Pachamama

Mbauwens — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:09:30 GMT

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-	= "Mother Earth" ~~deity for~~ the ~~Yasuni~~ in Ecuador	+
		+	=Definition=
		+
		+	"Pachamama is a goddess revered by the indigenous people of the Andes. Pachamama is usually translated as "Mother Earth" but a more literal translation would be "Mother world" (in Aymara and Quechua mama = mother / pacha = world or land; and later spread fairly modern as the cosmos or the universe).[1] Pachamama and Inti are the most benevolent deities and are worshiped in parts of the Andean mountain ranges, also known as Tawantinsuyu (stretching from present day Ecuador to Chile and Argentina)."
		+	(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachamama)


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	#[[Neotraditional Economics]]		#[[Neotraditional Economics]]
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Pochamama

Mbauwens — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:32:51 GMT

moved [[Pochamama]] to [[Pachamama]] correction

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Banco Palmas

Elifarley — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:46:43 GMT

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	* Brazil's national currency loses strength to [[Alternative Currencies\|alternative currencies]] in 33 brazilian communities: [http://www.tudoagora.com.br/noticia/7125/Real-perde-forca-para-moedas-alternativas-em-33-comunidades.html Real perde força para moedas alternativas em 33 comunidades]		* Brazil's national currency loses strength to [[Alternative Currencies\|alternative currencies]] in 33 brazilian communities: [http://www.tudoagora.com.br/noticia/7125/Real-perde-forca-para-moedas-alternativas-em-33-comunidades.html Real perde força para moedas alternativas em 33 comunidades]
	* 41 currencies are circulating in Brazil: [http://solidu.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/41-moedas-sociais-circulam-no-brasil-revista-epoca/ 41 moedas circulam no Brasil]		* 41 currencies are circulating in Brazil: [http://solidu.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/41-moedas-sociais-circulam-no-brasil-revista-epoca/ 41 moedas circulam no Brasil]
		+	* [http://socialter.fr/en/when-the-poor-districts-create-their-own-currency/ When the poor districts create their own currency]
		+	* [http://socialter.fr/pt-br/moedas-sociais-no-brasil/ Economia solidária e moedas sociais no Brasil]

	[[Category:Money]]		[[Category:Money]]

Portuguese-Language

Elifarley — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:26:01 GMT

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-	[[~~A Economia Política da Produção entre Pares]]~~	+
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-	~~Portuguese translation of [http~~:~~//www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=499 "The Political Economy of Peer Production"], Michel Bauwens's essay published in Ctheory - by Miguel Caetano~~	+
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-	Tradução portuguesa do ensaio [http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=499 "The Political Economy of Peer Production"] de Michel Bauwens publicado na Ctheory - por Miguel CaetanoSee the pages about [[Brazil]] .	+
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-	~~=Other Information=~~	+
-		+
-	~~Karla Brunet has started an annotated list of P2P-related sites, in Portuguese, at~~	+
-	~~http://www.co-network.net/~~	+
-		+
-	~~'''Miguel Caetano''' has a daily Portuguese-language blog, at http://remixtures.com/, about Free Culture, P2P, copyleft, netlabels and netaudio~~	+
-		+
-	~~Blog on the collaborative internet, at http://www.naozero.com.br/~~	+
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-	~~[[Category:Languages]]~~	+
-	[[Category:Portuguese]]	+

Category:Portuguese

Elifarley — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:25:14 GMT

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=Key Text=

[[A Economia Política da Produção entre Pares]]

Portuguese translation of [http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=499 "The Political Economy of Peer Production"], Michel Bauwens's essay published in Ctheory - by Miguel Caetano

Tradução portuguesa do ensaio [http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=499 "The Political Economy of Peer Production"] de Michel Bauwens publicado na Ctheory - por Miguel CaetanoSee the pages about [[Brazil]] .

=Other Information=

Karla Brunet has started an annotated list of P2P-related sites, in Portuguese, at
http://www.co-network.net/

'''Miguel Caetano''' has a daily Portuguese-language blog, at http://remixtures.com/, about Free Culture, P2P, copyleft, netlabels and netaudio

Blog on the collaborative internet, at http://www.naozero.com.br/

[[Category:Languages]]

Portuguese-Language

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Nossa Ecovila

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Coolmeia

Elifarley — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:22:33 GMT

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Nossa Ecovila

Elifarley — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:21:24 GMT

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Coolmeia

Elifarley — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:21:22 GMT

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Nossa Ecovila

Elifarley — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:19:04 GMT

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Coolmeia

Elifarley — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:16:25 GMT

Objetivos da Coolmeia

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	# Manter-se continuadamente como organização sem fins lucrativos, envolvendo no projeto pessoas realmente afeitas à causa e que almejam nada mais do que a construção, dia após dia, de um mundo melhor para viver.		# Manter-se continuadamente como organização sem fins lucrativos, envolvendo no projeto pessoas realmente afeitas à causa e que almejam nada mais do que a construção, dia após dia, de um mundo melhor para viver.
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		+	[[Category:Ecology]]
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Nossa Ecovila

Elifarley — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:14:49 GMT

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URL: http://www.nossaecovila.com.br/

==Introduction==
'''Nossa Ecovila''' é uma ecovila brasileira em estágio de formação.

[[Category:Village]]
[[Category:Ecology]]

LocalHarvest

Elifarley — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:11:58 GMT

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	Family farmers sell their products directly to the public through various channels.		Family farmers sell their products directly to the public through various channels.
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		+	==See Also==
		+	* [[Michael Pollan on the Emerging Local Food Movement]]
		+	* [[Local Food Systems]]
		+	* Eating local food is one of the principles of the [[Transition Town Movement]]

	[[Category:Agrifood]]		[[Category:Agrifood]]