Rufus Pollock of the Open Knowledge Foundation opens OKFC 2009
by Vinay Gupta • April 8, 2009 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
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The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution
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Gupta’s Law of Network Politics
by Vinay Gupta • April 5, 2009 • Personal • 3 Comments
In a networked environment, the person who knows what to do next is in charge. Because, in a networked environment, everybody can propose action. Hierarchies using the network experience dissonance at the point where the feed coming off the network proposes a better plan than the feed coming off the hierarchy. There’s a counterlaw about [...]
Read more →Beyond Resilience: Visionary Adaptation
by Vinay Gupta • April 4, 2009 • The Global Picture • 12 Comments
I think I’ve made what I’m driving at a bit clearer in my own head by drawing some diagrams. Click the image for a PDF which builds out the model. What it comes down to is four models of change, which are: The Resilience Model: Normal State -> Crisis -> Resilience -> Normal State Successful [...]
Read more →why it’s not resilience.
by Vinay Gupta • April 4, 2009 • The Global Picture • 8 Comments
Everybody loves resilience. It’s a calm, reassuringly solid word. Resilience, n. 1. The ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune; buoyancy. 2. The property of a material that enables it to resume its original shape or position after being bent, stretched, or compressed; elasticity. The problem is we are not ever going to [...]
Read more →Mamading Ceesay on Economies of Agility
by Vinay Gupta • April 3, 2009 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments
One late night in Soho, Mamading invented the phrase “economies of agility.” I thought it was brilliant and encompassed an enormous core idea that we all talk around and include in our discussions without having a simple, clear term of art for it. In the industrial age, mass production by firms exploited the economies of [...]
Read more →Ending Poverty With Open Hardware
by Vinay Gupta • March 30, 2009 • Hexayurt • 1 Comment
This is the talk I delivered at Oekonux, an open source hardware type conference in Manchester this weekend. Here is an MP3 audio version of the talk. Here are the slides. They ask the questions that the talk attempts to answer. Here are the 10 questions we addressed. 1. What is Poverty? 2. How can [...]
Read more →A fascinating day
by Vinay Gupta • March 29, 2009 • Personal • 1 Comment
Three observations. 1> Collaboration is not about what you do when things go right. 2> Crowdsourcing isn’t about what you know you want in all cases. Sometimes it’s about people who have totally unexpected angles just appearing to help. 3> I’m done on marketing. I’ve got a serviceable understanding of the very elementary basics of [...]
Read more →Two talks in one day
by Vinay Gupta • March 28, 2009 • Personal • 0 Comments
Open Knowledge Foundation in London (UCL) in the morning. Oekonux in Manchester in the afternoon. A little insane in terms of timing. There will be audio and probably video up as soon as possible after each talk. One thing that I’m doing for a change is substantially talking without visual aids. I thought long and [...]
Read more →Simplifying the future
by Vinay Gupta • March 19, 2009 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments
Recently – and I blame twitter for this – I’ve had really bad information overload. This should not be that much of a surprise. Six and a half billion people, something over a billion of them online, many of them very, very smart with whole lifetimes of thinking and research behind them: there is no [...]
Read more →New Resilient – “Delicious Western Canadian Post-Collapse Prosperity” blog
by Vinay Gupta • March 19, 2009 • Hexayurt • 0 Comments
Does a really nice write up of the Hexayurt Project.
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