Just read this book. Amazing. I cried. It is the way of the future. Micro-Finance empowers the very poor with small loans to help them overcome their cycle of just having enough money to feed themselves, and not enough to save and invest in their activities or children. The website www.kiva.org has just got a [...]
Is regular society a form of knowledge sharing? The difference between general society and open-source is the ease with which you can obtain information. If we break down Leadbeater‘s assertions on the essential components of successful open-source software we can draw the following parallels: Ease of access to information = schools, universities, libraries… Central network [...]
More action on the open source front. I was watching the movie layer cake and one key line I retained was, « Being good at business is being a good middleman ». That is exactly what the open-source gurus have done. Wikipedia’s Walsh, eBay’s Skoll, Linux’s Torvald, Craigslist’s Craig, Facebook’s Zuckerberg… Its all about providing tools for [...]
Open-Source systems are projects where people can build on existing work without the worry of copyright infringement. Open-source projects and online communities have taken off in the past few years. Linux, Wikipedia, and Joomla have driven software and collaborative work, MySpace, Facebook and Youtube have become beehives of cultural activity and World of Warcraft, Dungeons [...]