We-Think: Mass innovation, not mass production: Charles Leadbeater: 9781861978370: Amazon.com. Pro-Ams. Pro-ams in innovation. Charles Leadbeater: The era of open innovation. Clay Shirky. Clay Shirky (born 1964[2]) is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He has a joint appointment at New York University (NYU) as a Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and Assistant Arts Professor in the New Media focused graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).[3] His courses address, among other things, the interrelated effects of the topology of social networks and technological networks, how our networks shape culture and vice-versa.[4] Education and career[edit] Shirky was the first Professor of New Media in the Media Studies department at Hunter College, where he developed the MFA in Integrated Media Arts program.
In the Fall of 2010, Shirky was a visiting Morrow Lecturer at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government[8] instructing a course titled: "New Media and Public Action".[9] Views[edit] Shirky also introduces his theory of Mass Amateurization: The Shirky Principle. Techdirt. Glyn Moody’s Techdirt Profile. Posted on Techdirt - 22 April 2014 @ 10:05am from the seriously-losing-it dept As we've been reporting for nearly a year now, the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, really hates Twitter.
Indeed, it is arguably becoming something of an obsession for him, to the point where he has now taken the unprecedented step of suing his own country over it, as Hurriyet Daily News reports: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made an application to the Constitutional Court on April 18 over the failure to implement court rulings requesting the removal of content violating his rights, according to a senior official from his office.
Erdoğan is seeking 50,000 Turkish Liras in compensation, Reuters reported. The move has been described as a "first of its kind" by the Union of Turkish Bar Associations (TBB) head Metin Feyzioğlu, who said the prime minister of Turkey had never before filed a lawsuit against the state. Follow me @glynmoody on Twitter or identi.ca, and +glynmoody on Google+ Mike Masnick’s Techdirt Profile. Posted on Techdirt - 22 April 2014 @ 3:59pm from the but-of-course dept Late last fall, we highlighted some very questionable practices by Intellectual Ventures in suing a bunch of big banks for patent infringement. Our focus was on a particular patent, 6,182,894, which was initially assigned to American Express, and which claimed to cover the concept of CID or CVV codes (those little extra three numbers on the back of your credit card you're supposed to type in as an added security measure).
American Express, perhaps realizing how ridiculous it would be to sue over such a patent "donated" it to a non-profit, the Consumer and Merchant Awareness Foundation ("CMAF"), who explicitly promised that it would only be used to encourage better credit card security, and that it would never use the patent "against issuers, acquirers, merchants or consumers related to activity in the retail financial services and payment areas. " It's been about the lawsuits and the money. from the get-crackin' dept. High Tech Cows & Open Source Farm Equipment: Yes, The Economics Of Farming Is Relevant. I frequently get asked why I spend so much time talking about the entertainment industry here on Techdirt, and one of the points I make is that I think what's happened to the entertainment industry over the last decade and a half is really a leading indicator of the type of disruptive change that has already started to impact, or will soon be impacting, nearly every industry imaginable.
As such, by understanding what's happening and how not to respond, perhaps we can help lots of other industries move more smoothly into the future. So I'm always interested and intrigued by parallels in totally unexpected industries. Just recently, the good folks over at NPR's Planet Money put together a fascinating episode about modern farm economics (and host Adam Davidson also wrote a NY Times piece on the same subject). To some extent, it's like the differences we've talked about between gatekeepers and enablers. Breanna realized they kept talking about this "problem" they had. Techdirt. Techdirt is a blog that reports on technology trends and related business and economic policy issues, often focusing on copyright and patent reform. The "About" page describes the site as follows: "Started in 1997 by Floor64 founder Mike Masnick and then growing into a group blogging effort, the Techdirt blog uses a proven economic framework to analyze and offer insight into news stories about changes in government policy, technology and legal issues that affect companies ability to innovate and grow.
"[2] The website Masnick founded in 1997 was originally based on the weblog Slash. References[edit] Jump up ^ "Techdirt.com Site Info". External links[edit] Official website. Open Source stories at Techdirt. The Heartbleed computer security bug is many things: a catastrophic tech failure, an open invitation to criminal hackers and yet another reason to upgrade our passwords on dozens of websites. But more than anything else, Heartbleed reveals our neglect of Internet security. The United States spends more than $50 billion a year on spying and intelligence, while the folks who build important defense software — in this case a program called OpenSSL that ensures that your connection to a website is encrypted — are four core programmers, only one of whom calls it a full-time job.
In a typical year, the foundation that supports OpenSSL receives just $2,000 in donations. Is it any wonder that this Heartbleed bug slipped through the cracks? Instead, the National Security Agency, which has responsibility to protect U.S. infrastructure, has worked to weaken encryption standards. But private industry has also failed to fund its critical tools. So, you need to change them. Companies using government data. When President Barack Obama signed a new open data initiative earlier this month, he argued that providing government data to entrepreneurs enables them to create new businesses and strengthen the economy. What kinds of businesses are being built with open data? A report from a White House task force on open data and "smart disclosure" released Wednesday highlights several commercial and non-profit operations built around open data.
The report stripped specific company names to avoid the appearance of favoritism — if you recognize any of them, let us know in the comments. 1. Education Image via Matt Cardy/Getty Images A non-profit organization is providing performance information for schools from preschool through college with data from states and other sources, making education choices easier. 2. Image via Sean Gallup/Getty Images A company is letting consumers track their energy use and provides tips based on household consumption patterns — like a Mint for your electric bill. 3. 4. 5. 6. Program in Open Innovation (formerly Center for Open Innovation) Innovation Forum | Program in Open Innovation under the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation.
[members resources page: requires password] [membership list] The Berkeley Innovation Forum is a membership organization hosted by Dr. Henry Chesbrough, Director of the Program in Open Innovation. Prof. Chesbrough has become a world renowned authority on the topic of open innovation, a term that he is credited with inventing.
His books, Open Innovation and Open Business Models, have won numerous awards, and have been translated into 12 languages around the world. Information for Potential Members The Berkeley Innovation Forum is an exclusive membership group consisting of carefully selected corporate Directors who are deeply involved in managing innovation within their company. The forum provides its members an ongoing window on innovation challenges confronting companies around the world, and gathers members together to share their experiences in dealing with these challenges. The benefits of membership include: Ajinomoto Applied Materials Autodesk Bakkavör Cisco Systems, Inc.
Henry Chesbrough | Faculty Directory | Berkeley-Haas. Henry Chesbrough. Henry William Chesbrough (born 1956) is an American organizational theorist, adjunct professor and the executive director of the Center for Open Innovation at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for coining the term open innovation[1] Biography[edit] Chesbrough holds a BA in Economics from Yale University, an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a PhD from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
He taught at the Harvard Business School as an assistant professor and Class of 1961 Fellow from 1997 to 2003. He acts as the chairman of the Open Innovation Center - Brazil. Publications[edit] 2003. References[edit] External links[edit] Open Innovation - The New Imperative. This is the intro, looks interesting. Author is cited in WP as the originator of the idea. Insight: Ideas for Change - Henry Chesbrough. Henry Chesbrough: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle. What is Open Innovation? | Program in Open Innovation under the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation. (formerly Center for Open Innovation) What is Open Innovation? Open Innovation is the use of purposive inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate innovation. With knowledge now widely distributed, companies cannot rely entirely on their own research, but should acquire inventions or intellectual property from other companies when it advances the business model.
Briefly: “Open innovation is the use of purposive inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation, and expand the markets for external use of innovation, respectively. [This paradigm] assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as they look to advance their technology.” Henry Chesbrough, Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm Randall Rothenberg, editor, strategy+business (published by Booz Allen Hamilton) For a brief introduction to Open Innovation, click any of these links: For a book-length introduction to Open Innovation, see:
Red Hat | The World's Open Source Leader. Securing sharing of documents. The New Yorker has announced a new anonymous document sharing system called Strongbox, that will allow people to anonymously and securely submit documents to reporters from the New Yorker. Other publications have tried to set up something like this -- often inspired by Wikileaks -- but for the most part, they've been full of security holes, sometimes big and serious ones. What may be more interesting than the fact that this system is being set up is the story behind it. It's based on DeadDrop, an open source system that was put together by Aaron Swartz and Kevin Poulsen. Poulsen has the backstory of DeadDrop here, which is well worth reading. I wondered about this young tech-startup founder who put his energy into the debate over corporate-friendly copyright term extensions. Poulsen also notes that there were questions raised about the code after Aaron's death, but those were eventually sorted out: By December, 2012, Aaron’s code was stable, and a squishy launch date had been set.
The Open Source Initiative | Open Source Initiative. Open Source Industry Australia | Open For Business. OSIA-Brochure-1-2.
Open Source in Insurance. Wired 11.11: Open Source Everywhere. Open Source Everywhere Software is just the beginning … open source is doing for mass innovation what the assembly line did for mass production. Get ready for the era when collaboration replaces the corporation. By Thomas Goetz Cholera is one of those 19th-century ills that, like consumption or gout, at first seems almost quaint, a malady from an age when people suffered from maladies. But in the developing world, the disease is still widespread and can be gruesomely lethal. Since cholera kills by driving fluids from the body, the treatment is to pump liquid back in, as fast as possible. "It's a health problem, but it's also a design problem," says Timothy Prestero, a onetime Peace Corps volunteer who cofounded a group called Design That Matters. But the team needed more medical expertise. ThinkCycle's collaborative approach is modeled on a method that for more than a decade has been closely associated with software development: open source.
But software is just the beginning. Linus. The Internet? We Built That. About a week after Obama’s speech, The Wall Street Journal’s Gordon Crovitz took on those lines from Obama’s speech, claiming it was an “urban legend” that the government built the Internet. Credit for the early networking innovations, Crovitz argued, belonged to private-sector companies like Xerox and Apple. It was no accident, he observed, that the Net languished in relative obscurity for two decades until private corporations and venture capitalists turned their focus to it. So what had once seemed to be a relatively stable narrative grounding has in recent months erupted with all sorts of political tremors.
For most of the past two decades, the story of the Internet’s origins followed a fairly standardized plot: the Internet was originally developed by computer scientists whose research was heavily financed by the federal government, most notably through Darpa, the research arm of the Defense Department. The renewed political stakes in the details of this origin story are obvious. Future Perfect: The Case For Progress In A Networked Age: Steven Johnson: 9781594488207: Amazon.com.