Open Source Seed Intiative. Biological Innovation for Open Society. BiOS (Biological Open Source/Biological Innovation for Open Society) is an international initiative to foster innovation and freedom to operate in the biological sciences.
BiOS was officially launched on 10 February 2005 by Cambia, an independent, international non-profit organization dedicated to democratizing innovation. Its intention is to initiate new norms and practices for creating tools for biological innovation, using binding covenants to protect and preserve their usefulness, while allowing diverse business models for the application of these tools.[1] As described by Richard Anthony Jefferson, CEO of Cambia, the BiOS Initiative worked with small companies, university offices of technology transfer, attorneys, and multinational corporations to create a platform to share productive and sustainable technology.[1] The parties developed the BiOS Material Transfer Agreement (MTA) and the BiOS license[2] as legal instruments to facilitate these goals.
Biological Open Source[edit] Open Source Seed Initiative. = an organization committed to facilitating vigorous innovation in plant breeding by preserving the right to unencumbered use of shared seeds and their progeny in breeding programs.
"Corporate appropriation of plant genetic resources, development of transgenic crops, and the global imposition of intellectual property rights are now widely recognized as serious constraints on the free exchange of seeds and the development of new cultivars by public breeders and small seed companies. In response, legal and operational mechanisms drawn from the open source software movement have been proposed for deployment in plant breeding. In the United States, an Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI) has been organized by a working group of plant breeders, farmers, non-governmental organizations and sustainable food system advocates. OSSI promotes innovative plant breeding that produces resilient and productive cultivars adapted to a multiplicity of sustainable agroecosystems. Could plant diversity become free (as in speech)? Home. BiOS ['baI os] noun 1. (from Greek, βiος) life; 2. (acronym) Biological Innovation for Open Society; 3. (acronym) Biological Open Source; 4.
Biological Innovation through Open Science; 5. Biologial Input / Output System; 6. BiOS is a response to inequities in food security, nutrition, health, natural resource management and energy. We promote an innovation paradigm that focuses on a distinction between the tools of innovation and the products. We create and share new biological enabling technologies and platforms that can be used to deliver innovations. We enhance the transparency, accessibility and capability to use all the tools of science, whether patented, open access or public domain. Community and Environmental Sociology. C&ES Professor Jack Kloppenburg loves to garden.
But the new GreenHouse he has worked to build on campus will be growing citizens, not plants! Fall semester 2010 will see the inauguration of the GreenHouse, a residential learning community which takes sustainability as its constitutive theme. Residential learning communities are residence halls organized around the provision of diverse, integrated, curricular and extracurricular educational opportunities for the students who live there. Convinced that a residential learning community focused on sustainability would be a timely and pedagogically productive addition to campus life and learning, a group of faculty, staff, and students led by Kloppenburg have spent the last year developing a plan for its implementation. www.dces.wisc.edu/documents/articles/kloppenburg/Kloppenburg%202010%20Seed%20Sovereignty%20the%20Promise%20of%20Open%20Source%20Biology.pdf. www.dces.wisc.edu/documents/articles/kloppenburg/2008%20Seeds%20and%20Sovereignty.pdf.
www.dces.wisc.edu/documents/articles/kloppenburg/2009%20Open%20Sources%20Open%20Minds.pdf. www.dces.wisc.edu/documents/articles/kloppenburg/2010%20Impeding%20Dispossession%20Enabling%20Repossession.pdf.