About. (on 2011-05-07) WikiLeaks is a not-for-profit media organisation. Our goal is to bring important news and information to the public. We provide an innovative, secure and anonymous way for sources to leak information to our journalists (our electronic drop box). One of our most important activities is to publish original source material alongside our news stories so readers and historians alike can see evidence of the truth.
WikiLeaks has sustained and triumphed against legal and political attacks designed to silence our publishing organisation, our journalists and our anonymous sources. 1.2 How WikiLeaks works WikiLeaks has combined high-end security technologies with journalism and ethical principles. As the media organisation has grown and developed, WikiLeaks been developing and improving a harm minimisation procedure. 1.3 Why the media (and particularly Wiki leaks) is important Publishing improves transparency, and this transparency creates a better society for all people. 2. U.S. 3. The Wisdom of Crowds. The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, published in 2004, is a book written by James Surowiecki about the aggregation of information in groups, resulting in decisions that, he argues, are often better than could have been made by any single member of the group.
The book presents numerous case studies and anecdotes to illustrate its argument, and touches on several fields, primarily economics and psychology. The opening anecdote relates Francis Galton's surprise that the crowd at a county fair accurately guessed the weight of an ox when their individual guesses were averaged (the average was closer to the ox's true butchered weight than the estimates of most crowd members, and also closer than any of the separate estimates made by cattle experts).[1] Types of crowd wisdom[edit] Surowiecki breaks down the advantages he sees in disorganized decisions into three main types, which he classifies as.
Open innovation. Open innovation is a term promoted by Henry Chesbrough, adjunct professor and faculty director of the Center for Open Innovation at the Haas School of Business at the University of California,[1] in a book of the same name,[2] though the idea and discussion about some consequences (especially the interfirm cooperation in R&D) date as far back as the 1960s[citation needed]. Some instances of open innovation are Open collaboration,[3] a pattern of collaboration, innovation, and production. The concept is also related to user innovation, cumulative innovation, know-how trading, mass innovation and distributed innovation. “Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as the firms look to advance their technology”.[2] Alternatively, it is "innovating with partners by sharing risk and sharing reward.
Advantages[edit] Disadvantages[edit] Models of open innovation[edit] See also[edit] Living lab. A living lab is a research concept. A living lab is a user-centred, open-innovation ecosystem,[1][2] often operating in a territorial context (e.g. city, agglomeration, region), integrating concurrent research and innovation processes[3] within a public-private-people partnership.[4] The concept is based on a systematic user co-creation approach integrating research and innovation processes. These are integrated through the co-creation, exploration, experimentation and evaluation of innovative ideas, scenarios, concepts and related technological artefacts in real life use cases.
Such use cases involve user communities, not only as observed subjects but also as a source of creation. Description[edit] William J. In 2010, Mitchell, Larson and Pentland, formed the first US-based living labs research consortium. The convergence of globalization, changing demographics, and urbanization is transforming almost every aspect of our lives. How it works[edit] See also[edit] External links[edit] KIS-STARTER. This is comment from an impartial third party that we provided our BOM, Schematics, IC Datasheets and CBA test reports too: To all backers!
I am Justin Shaw, co-founder of WyoLum offered to review any material provided to validate Anthony Vilgiate claims. We have not had any contact prior to this Kickstarter project (which we backed). We have entered into this investigation with an open mind and without foregone conclusions. Justin Shaw Mark Anthony claims that these are not original products being produced by us but Chinese knock offs.
Truth: These units contain our unique circuit and have been built by us with our contract manufacturer in Shenzen China. Mark Anthony Claims that The Adventurer is a cheap knock off of a product from a company called Yooboo, whom I have never heard off. Truth: The similarities are only in the fact that it is white plastic and houses a battery and charging circuit. Mark Anthony claims that I did not design the cases.
Transition towns. Cloud computing. Cloud computing metaphor: For a user, the network elements representing the provider-rendered services are invisible, as if obscured by a cloud. Cloud computing is a computing term or metaphor that evolved in the late 1990s, based on utility and consumption of computer resources. Cloud computing involves application systems which are executed within the cloud and operated through internet enabled devices. Purely cloud computing does not rely on the use of cloud storage as it will be removed upon users download action. Clouds can be classified as public, private and hybrid.[1][2] Overview[edit] Cloud computing[3] relies on sharing of resources to achieve coherence and economies of scale, similar to a utility (like the electricity grid) over a network.[2] At the foundation of cloud computing is the broader concept of converged infrastructure and shared services.
Cloud computing, or in simpler shorthand just "the cloud", also focuses on maximizing the effectiveness of the shared resources.