FirstBuild

a strategic initiative for the creation of open, hackable, appliances born from the collaboration with co-creative communities for products on demand. [1]

Description

Simone Cicero:

" Adopting open source development models and creating standard interfaces, through APIs for example, ultimately making products and services that are open and reusable from others. It is ultimately time to embrace “the great disruptor”, the unbundling, and to do that in a conscious and strategic way. To understand that this approach is not only to be confined in software we can look at a recent initiative from General Electric: the US giant is partnering with Local Motors to launch FirstBuild, a strategic initiative for the creation of open, hackable, appliances born from the collaboration with co-creative communities for products on demand." (http://meedabyte.com/2015/06/19/the-hacker-ethic-of-work/)

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• see also : Extreme Manufacturing at Wikispeed