Disruptive technologies

The Open-source?

Key attributes of Open source:

Sharing as opposed to copyright

Collaboration as opposed to competition

Building a community as opposed to a customer base

"Openly licensing allows others to replicate, reuse, adapt, improve, adopt, bring to scale, write about, talk about, remix, translate, digitise, redistribute and build upon what we have done."

Opensource software repositories

Open Harware:It starts with the Tools

Opensourceecology.org

Opensourcemachine.org
Multi-machine

Water supply:making and repairing water pumps and well drilling rigs Agriculture: build,repair irrigation pumps and farm implements Food supply: make efficient cooking stoves Transportation:carts,car parts Education:make own machine
Job Creation:start factories at

low cost
The Multimachine, a humanitarian, open source machine tool project for developing countries.

Servalproject.org

Currently implemented features include:

Free voice calls between Serval Mesh-enabled phones, using ordinary telephone numbers, in the absence of any supporting infrastructure. Successfully tested in the remote Australian
MeshMS, our free mesh-based SMS. With Servals Rhizome store-and-forward technology we have delivered messages over 10,000km (about 6,000 miles) between Africa and Australia, without reliance on any cellular network, internet or other telecommunications infrastructure.

Villagetelco.org
Overview:
- combines features of wi-fi and an

analogue telephone.

- provides a single fixed line and is connected to other mesh potatoes via a mesh wi-fi network.
$ 119

- carefully engineered for developing world environment (weather, poor electricity supply) - Software is open-source;Open hardware developed by an open hardware community for an open telephony system

Fabfi.fabfolk.com

FabFi is an open-source, FabLab-grown system using common building materials and off-the-shelf electronics to transmit wireless ethernet signals across distances of up to several miles. With Fabfi, communities can build their own wireless networks to gain high-speed internet connectivity---thus enabling them to access online educational, medical, and other resources.

Other wi-fi open-source networks

Meraki networks
Freifunk

Openmeshproject.org
Wndw.net a practical guide to building wireless networking in the developing world

Shelter: EarthBag building

Started in California by Nader Khalili's Cal-Earth Institute: cal-earth.org Uses sandbags, earth, barbed wire, and some simple tools

Education

Creative environments; those characterised by open access to information, technology, instruction and a community of like minded people. Physical spaces; hackerspaces, makerspaces,coworkingspaces, MIT's FabLabs and other creative community environments. Incorporate the key values of Opensource: sharing ideas, woking collaboratively.

Education:....Con't...
Use Moodle; a content management and learning management system to develop an open-source curriculum, combined with a deployment of MIT's OpenCourseWare and wikiversity. A curriculum for all abilities and interests.

Link all these spaces through the internet or our own locally grown network.

In the end..

In a future open source economy where everyone is a collaborative designer, producer, and manufacturer instead of passive consumers and when problems like "global climate change," "overpopulation," and "fuel crises" cross our path, we will counter them with technical solutions, not political indulgences like carbon taxes, and not draconian decrees like "one-child policies."
Making one thing is the past. Making many things but one person doing it is the present. Making manythings by anybody is the future humblefacture.com

The End

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