A new type of voting system Now, lets talk about voting systems. When voting, a voter is presented with two functions: vote for one of the options, or don’t vote. I suggest we add a third: forward your vote to a third party. This is the essence of “representative democracy”, but I’m talking about expanding [...]
Read more →We learn that if you want to run a business, you must generate your own power. The Municipal power is on for perhaps 3 or 4 hours during the day, on a good day. This turned out to be so, not only in Tombua, but throughout the country. (from half way through) See the whole [...]
Read more →Click here for the main interview discussion: http://www.globalswadeshi.net/forum/topic/show?id=2097821%3ATopic%3A501 Here are the supporting links: 1. Global Village Construction Set (and weblog): http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=198 2. Open Source Technology pattern language: http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Pattern_Language 3. Development page: http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=CEB_Press and overview: http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Overview 4. Year 1 of our Life at Factor e Farm http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=First_Year_at_Factor_e_Farm 5. Economic model: http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/steve_bosserman/2008/02/09/giving_it_away_making_money.htm
Read more →Great explanation of STAR-TIDES. This was shot at the FAHUM expo. It’s a little noisy for the first half, but it clears up at the 24 minute mark, and there’s a lot of great content past that point. Enjoy.
Read more →I live in China right now, and the concept of intellectual property is relatively new here. It’s a more natural part of Chinese culture to take ideas from each other. Instead of innovating into uncharted territory, Chinese innovate in place, creating immense depth within a single discipline, for instance martial arts, tea drinking, and calligraphy. [...]
Read more →Alia’s predicament is akin to most of residents in India’s half a million villages. Where poverty is secular and shows no sign of receding. Like Barigaon, most of India’s villages are entirely sustained by natural resources like land and forest. With 70 per cent of population depending on agriculture and around 400 million people on [...]
Read more →Hm. Let’s see, in the event of a global economic crash, whether India or China fare better. The village is rooted in self-sufficiency and food security. The global economy, while efficient in some respects, is incredibly volatile and unstable. To grow dependent on something you cannot hope to control is not wisdom. I think that [...]
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Read more →http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4786216.stm good article! http://www.msrc.sunysb.edu/news/Tanzania.html – more here.
Read more →http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash what’s nice is that you can trim off the end of the hash, to get a less and less precise hash, because it basically represents a quadtree in hash from. Brilliantly simple, and well executed.
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