The SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act) laws could go beyond an ineffective attempt to protect intellectual property and be applied to undermine the open community network (ie internet) that will be the foundation for economic development, productivity, transparency and meritocracy for the next generation. A global protest has emerged against these new laws. PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has written an excellent article titled How PIPA and SOPA Violate White House Principles Supporting Free Speech and Innovation that provides a detailed overview of the stated and potential applications of the legislation. Wikipedia Extract SOPA ... Read More
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I have just published a new presentation at :slideshare: titled "MANAGEMENT 3.0: An open source software update to digital, community ecosystems (from analogue, proprietary hierarchies) across organisation, industry, national and global endeavours". I have also establish the Management 3.0 group to provide an example of organisational sub-groups. Please register and join the Management 3.0 public group to discuss, contribute and collaborate. :slideshare_m3_large: This is part of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge.
Read MoreI have just published a new presentation at :slideshare: titled "Health 3.0 (National): A cloud-based Central Brain to enable Management 3.0 within a National health system ... including industry and medical record collaboration". I have also establish the Health 3.0 (national) public group. Please register and join the Health 3.0 (National) public group to discuss, contribute and collaborate. :slideshare_hi3_large:
Read MoreMy recent entry in the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge Part 2 of the McKinsey HBR M-Prize is called the The Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge. I have lodged a entry The Management 3.0 "Central Brain" platform enables integrated Digital Ecosystems spanning organisations, industry, national and global endeavours. Please read, comment and rate the entry here. This entry was created in December 2011. The current version of this document will be maintained at this page on my blog. Background: Part 1 of the M-Prize In the first leg of the Harvard Business Review-McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation, we’re inviting management innovators from around the world, in every realm of endeavor to share the most progressive practices and ... Read More
This is my second application in the M-Prize competition. The first was for :em3:. My :ed4: M-Prize application can be reviewed here. The M-Prize In the first leg of the Harvard Business Review-McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation, we’re inviting management innovators from around the world, in every realm of endeavor to share the most progressive practices and disruptive ideas that illustrate how the governing principles and tools of the Web can make our organizations more adaptable, innovative, inspiring, and accountable. Do you have an instructive case study (a Story) or an experimental design (a Hack) that demonstrates how Web 2.0 values (including transparency, collaboration, ... Read More
I read with interest about the objective of Google.org below: Google.org projects are created for the purpose of addressing a social challenge and serving the public good. Our goal is to find engineering solutions to global challenges such as climate change, clean energy and global health. We focus on activities that take full advantage of Google’s engineering teams, global infrastructure and user-driven approach, while drawing on Google’s ability to innovate and scale. The purpose of this letter is to introduce three opportunities to engineer a :w3: networks that provide solutions to specific global challenges. The :w3: networks that may interest :googleorg: or its volunteers are: :listbegin: :united: is :w3: community to engineer global ... Read More
Mr George Soros Chairman, Open Society Institute I read with interest about your initiative to inspire a new way of thinking about economics. I studied Economics at University and maintain an avid interests in geostrategy. I appreciate the need for new ways of thinking and behaviours to deliver a more stable approach to economic management and financial markets. The purpose of this letter is to introduce three :w3: networks that encourage different modes of thinking and behaviour in democracy, financial markets and economic development: :listbegin: :edemocracy: (nationally) and :united: (internationally) to provide a new, community driven approach to democracy and global governance. This approach may be consistent with the objectives of the Open Society Foundations. :ed4:: ... Read More
I am reading the book "Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki". :em3: and :ed4: aim to create global :w3: networks that aggregate communities of common interest to focus effort and make collective decisions using the :wisdomofcrowds:. The :wisdomofcrowds: aggregated through :w3: networks are likely to make wiser collective decisions than those currently made by single members of the group. :w3: networks facilitate the four conditions necessary to facilitate wise collective decision making - diversity of opinion, independence, decentralisation and aggregation. In summary, we can rely on the :wisdomofcrowds: to run the world using :w3: networks on the :criticalpath: to :ed4:. I have extracted some paragraphs for your convenience, but encourage ... Read More
Sir Richard Branson I read with interest about your initiative to Change the face of banking. There is also an enormous opportunity in re-casting the equity market, or investment banking industry, by applying social networking concepts to recast service delivery through the internet. An online industry network for the equity market can bring together companies, advisors and investors in an online space where they can collaborate and distribute information to facilitate the growth of small and medium enterprises. This is called :em3:. The purpose of this letter is to introduce the opportunity for Virgin of applying Equity Market 3.0 to fuel the growth of SME's and the :bvi: financial centre. The venture ... Read More
Dear Chris TED is an inspiration. The journey of an entrepreneur is lonely and TED has provided inspiration, energy and a feeling that I was not alone. I have derived much from the TED community and I would like to share four ideas with the TED community - :em3:, :ed4:, the :criticalpath: and :united: (to deliver "Ideas worth creating"). The purpose of this email is to ask you: to consider broadcasting these ideas on your Twitter account (now) in 2011 to consider this application to speak at TED in 2012 to share the outcome of my efforts to crowdcreate :em3: in 20+ financial centres and inspire :ed4: by June 2012 Crowdcreating Equity Market 3.0 in ... Read More
According to Wikipedia, Enterprise Requirements Planning (ERP) software is "intended to manage all information of functions within a company or business". "Examples of modules in an ERP which formerly would have been stand-alone applications include: Product lifecycle management, Supply chain management (e.g. Purchasing, Manufacturing and Distribution), Warehouse Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Order Processing, Online Sales, Financials, Human Resources, and Decision Support System."- Wikipedia. ERP software from proprietary vendors can be very expensive and take months to implement. My web site is devoted to applying Web 3.0 to economic development. A key building block underpinning the emergence of Web 3.0 is open source software. I wrote an article about How ... Read More
I just watched a presentation at Gartner called SOA, the Web and the Cloud: Big Decisions about Application Architecture. I encourage you to view the original presentation. It highlights the tremendous opportunity to evolution and innovation by applying Web architectures and cloud computing to the way applications are designed. I will try to outline some of those principles for the non-technical below and then outline the importance of these principles in applying key elements of a Web 3.0 online network to economic development.
Read MoreWe need to build the Web 3.0 online social, industry and political networks on the critical path to Web 4.0 and pull in the next stage of financial markets, economic development, environmental sustainability, awareness, life, work and global governance. We need five online networks to solve the worlds problems by 2012 or we decline into conflict for generations. A global community could transform the world in 365 days by building the Web 3.0 online networks on the critical path to Web 4.0.
Read MoreRegulated capitalism is the last man standing. We have no choice but to make it work. We must, however, acknowledge that regulated capitalism has failed its citizens comprehensively. The failure of regulated capitalism is equal to the collapse of central planning. The communists recognised their system had failed and chose to implement something else. Will capitalists do the same? Or will we try to save the status quo at any price? Will bailouts move on to other “too big too let fail” activities that prevent the operation of creative destruction?
Read MoreWeb 1.0 delivered the internet and connected large numbers of people. Web 2.0 demonstrated the technology to assemble and manage large global crowds with a common interest in social interaction. Web 3.0 will apply online network concepts to industry, economic development, climate stability, poverty and democracy. Web 3.0 online networks allow people to see through the community or market and facilitate collective matching, learning and consumption in hours (not months). Web 4.0 achieves a critical mass of participation in online networks that deliver global transparency, governance, distribution, participation, collaboration in key industry, political, social and other community endeavours. Web 4.0 delivers community sovereignty to channels and information.
Read MoreOur society is in transition. It is applying new technologies to create new structures. Proprietary information is no longer necessary to encourage innovation or distribution channels. The internet provides a virtually free distribution channel in a services based economy. Online social networks have redefined how we interact with large numbers of people adopting new behaviours. Online industry network will redefine industry. Online political networks will redefine politics.
The following is intended to provide a summary of how our society operating in a Web 1.0 world and the emerging Web 3.0 world. This is one of a series of concepts that explain the evolution toward Web 3.0. I recommend you review the visual overview of these concepts in the Marcus.cake overview presentation.
Read MoreThere is an opportunity for a Linux style online community to coordinate the individual contribution of scientists, government, corporations, philanthropists and the community to pursue/deliver climate stability. Virginearth.com would be an ideal forum for this initiative. Richard Branson and Al Gore could inspire an global online community and encourage government and corporations to contribute essential intellectual property to a solution and deliver climate stability.
Read MoreThe primary ego on the world stage today is the US – its excessive consumption, insolvency, military aggression and use of 60% of the world’s savings make it the world’s most gluttonous consumer. Its military acquisition of the worlds resources may be the greatest strategic move in history. It provides resources to pay back unserviceable debts and leverage other countries on the global stage. However, the destruction of relationships in the process will crowd out an opportunity to deliver a sustainable future for the planet. Unrelenting ego by the US may win the resource wars, but the destruction of global relationships in the process sacrifice the opportunity for a sustainable future. An online network may not save the world, but could a collective conscious network.
Read MoreWe need to deploy five online political, industrial and social networks to avert disaster by 2012. Existing structures that rely on proprietary ownership of information, distribution channels, institutions and regional approaches are unable to solve our most pressing problems. Even if they could solve the problems, they are simply unable to coordinate a global endeavour in a rapidly closing timeframe. I had previously written that online networks could be delayed for up to 50 years by three epic battles. In some aspects of our global community, we can wait 50 years (and there is only an opportunity cost). However, for some specific problems, online networks need to be built, acquire a significant audience, and achieve their objective by 2012.
Read MoreThe next phase of economic development will be driven by the freedom of information and innovation generated by enthusiastic open source communities. Microsoft is asserting its patent portfolio is being violated by open source community software. It seems determined to strike at the heart that may drive the next phase of economic development. That heart is information freedom and enthusiasm of open source communities.
We empower government with the responsibility of providing the framework to promote economic development. Proprietary ownership of knowledge is no longer necessary to encourage innovation, but it still form a key part of our economic system. Open source communities are being unleashed on a global stage. Our community has a choice – enforcement of the current system of private ownership of knowledge, or allow information to be free to make humanity wealthier. Microsoft probably can’t kill humanity’s opportunity to become wealthier, but the broader battle may. The key threat to open source and online networks is the government regulatory response to the battle between community knowledge and intellectual property.
Read MoreOnline networks which embody every facet of industrial, social and politcal aspects of our modern society are inevitable. They simply offer a superior way to interact and transact. The transition to a global community based around online networks will take six months, sixteen years or fifty years. The timeframe will depend upon the outcome of three epic battles. The battles are economic development vs geostrategy, community knowledge vs intellectual property, and online networks vs closed systems. Online industrial, political and social networks which are involved in these battles could be delayed for decades.
Read MoreOnline industry networks could develop pharmaceutical products using open source principles. The Tropical Diseases Initiative is an example of an “open source” online network developing drugs for tropical diseases. It operates in a niche that is uneconomic or unviable for the pharmaceutical industry. It has been allowed to survive as a result. It demonstrates the potential of online networks in the pharmaceutical industry. A description of the Tropical Disease Initiative is provided below.
Read MoreInformation technologies which capture, store, process or transmit information double in performance or halve in cost every 18 months. Moore’s law has been working patiently for 40 years. In an information economy, this should have had a dramatic effect. However, political, industrial and social structures largely remain the same. Advances in technology have not changed the fundamentally way that our society or economy has operated. The right information in the right place at the right time will transform the world. This transformation will only start now. This article will discuss why such a process should only begin now and what role information is likely to have.
Read MoreWhat if we did have cars that cost $25 and got 1,000 miles to the gallon? What if the Moore law rates of innovation and improvement could be applied to the world’s problems. What if Moore’s law rates of improvement applied to aircraft engines, car engines, carbon dioxide emissions, industrial pollution, cures for disease, energy and minerals usage, education and leadership. Our world is evolving. Advances in technology present new ways to organise. Online networks are likely to be a step forwards. An expansion of intellectual property laws is likely to be a step backwards. If there was a new way to deliver greater rates of innovation, we have a compelling need to solve specific global problems. We need to question that our underlying assumptions of how to organise.
Read MoreDan Rather: Journalism has lost its guts, Cnet.com news, 12th March 2007 Extract: During his hour-long keynote address Monday at South by Southwest Interactive, Rather opined at length on the state of his profession, in which too many journalists have become lapdogs to power, rather than watchdogs. "I do not exclude myself from this criticism... By and large, so many journalists--there are notable exceptions--have adopted the go-along-to-get-along (attitude)," he said. Rather left CBS last year in the wake of a scandal surrounding questionable documentation for a story accusing President George Bush of being absent without leave during his military service. Today, Rather works as a journalist for entrepreneur Mark Cuban's HDNet network. In his speech, ... Read More
The objectives of open source will change over time. As open source evolves and proves its capability, it will move beyond technology, beyond specific industries, to all other aspects of our society. This has been suggested in the past. However, existing organisations are not sufficiently motivated to apply advances in technology to promote development. Business, social and political entrepreneurs that establish online networks are likely to be the primary force for change.
This article outlines the first four stages of the development of online networks and the .Net boom. The objective of the online network in each stage is identified.
Read MoreThe next evolution in economic development and the evolution of the internet is likely to be user generated industries. This will move beyond user content to valuable industries which distribute valuable information. Online industry networks will facilitate collaboration and distribute information. Small groups may specialise in the manufacture of information. They will rely on online networks to distribute it. Consumers of information will increasing source their products from online networks.
A user generated industry combines user generated content and user generated infrastructure to distribute products and services from individual manufacturers to individual consumers. There are significant economic and social benefits for the individual manufacturers and consumers of information. Individuals can focus on their unique speciality, work from home and be their own boss. Customers obtain the convenience of online delivery and lower costs. Organisations that have only served the community by distributing information are likely to be rendered redundant by technology advances. These will need to find other means to add value to the global community if they are to survive. Some will not.
Read MoreMy definition of the word hacker has evolved. From programmers cracking computer security (called crackers) to my modest efforts to improve my golf and, now, to skilled people contributing to online networks that reflect their passions and interests. A hacker has the tenacity and persistence to solve problems, often for the sake of solving it. They have the vision of architects, the skills of engineers and empathy of a mother with her upset child. They make significant sacrifices in pursuit of their goal. They navigate around, or though, barriers in their path. They do not rest (if inspired) until the problem is solved, or the challenge is overcome. If only my golf, could be described in these terms.
Online networks will be an essential tool of hackers. The will capture and focus the unique contribution of other hackers. Collective talent, energy and innovation will reshape industrial, social and political frameworks over the next decade.
Read MoreThe potential of collective innovation and open source to reshape our world needs to be demonstrated
The potential of open source software, open source principles and collective innovation is significant. They could change the world. They should, at the very least, change information intensive industries. These assertions are largely an intellectual argument. The thoughts of an individual. The compelling value of open source and collective innovation as a solution needs to be demonstrated.
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