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<P>Why do you want to be a Senior Fellow? What in particular makes
you a stellar candidate for the program? We know you're awesome, but
we'd like to hear why you think you should be a TED Senior Fellow.</P>
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<P>What have you been up to post-TED? We know you've been super busy
-- please tell us about it! Still rockin' your work? Have you been
collaborating with any fellow Fellows or TEDsters?</P>
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<P>At this juncture, how has being part of the TED Fellows program
affected you? (For example: personally, emotionally, socially,
professionally or in other ways)</P>
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<P>Thought experiment 1: You are working in the developing world and
come upon a village that is very poor, in very poor health and with
virtually no access to water, education and electricity. What would
you (and others?) do to materially improve the village's quality of
life?</P>
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<P>Thought experiment 2: If you could design and create any product
or service (assume sufficient funding) what would it be and why?</P>
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<P>What would you be working on over the next two years?</P>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">6. Why do you want to be a Senior Fellow?
What in particular makes you a stellar candidate for the program?
We know you're awesome, but we'd like to hear why you think you
should be a TED Senior Fellow.</FONT></H3>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 9pt">We
have shown initial prototypes of the low-cost, open source
infrastructure building tools – the Global Village Construction
Set (GVCS). Since then, we have shown economic significance of
these tools by netting $25k from a production run (just finishing
now). With our present growth trend, we are aiming for finishing
and optimizing the initial 50 GVCS tools by year-end 2012. Many of
the tools are basic devices like tractors - but there are much more
complex ones such as affordable solar concentrator electric power
or extraction of aluminum from clay. We need help to deliver
prototypes - while producing clear and clean instructionals for
scaling and replication – while developing the missing open
source CAD/CAM solution to assist in the above. We are calling for
the development of open source microfactories and economies. A
'civilization starter kit' as such is a scalable and adaptable
solution to reinventing community-based solutions of re-localized
production. Our eventual goal is to train entrepreneurs of tomorrow
– armed with the Civilization Starter Kit as their product. The
applications in the developing world are clear – and for the
developed world - we aim to demonstrate - first - a new engine of
optimized production (elimination of competitive waste and
design-for-obsolescence) – fueled by open source design. Second,
this engine can also power the creation of sustainable communities
with economies that are resilient in the case of global economic
crisis.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">7.
What have you been up to post-TED? We know you've been super busy
-- please tell us about it! Still rockin' your work? Have you been
collaborating with anyta fellow Fellows or TEDsters?</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></H3>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 9pt">Since
TED, we've done a production run of 4 tractors, 5 Compressed Earth
Brick presses, 9 power units, and 2 soil pulverizers – to get us
ready for testing these tools in building a 5000 sq ft workshop and
8 living units. We sold most of this equipment to bootstrap further
development – by developing our living and working
infrastructure. We collaborated with other TED Fellows – Adrian
Hong – as Advisor to our project, and with Cesar by helping him
publicize the Protei Kickstarter, and we are currently working on
our own Kickstarter. I was also invited as one of the speakers to
TEDxKC, and my talk was received exceptionally well. I also
followed up with Manu for contacts at Vigyan Ashram, and Aparna on
assistance for prototyping in India. Lesa Mitchell also invited me
to give a presentation to her group at Kauffman Foundation.
Moreover, I am currently getting coaching on enterprise scaling and
team development from SupporTED, with a leading coach, Scott
Blessing. I regret to say that I have not kept in much contact with
the other TED Fellows, especially Esra'a, simply because I was
buried in the production run and preparing for construction, so
most of my work filtered through these 2 needs. I am committed,
however, to inviting some of the TED Fellows on-site – housed
comfortably in the infrastructure that we are currently building –
to collaborate between our projects – where Cesar and Esra'a come
to mind immediately.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">8. At this
juncture, how has being part of the TED Fellows program affected
you? (For example: personally, emotionally, socially,
professionally or in other ways)</FONT></FONT></H3>
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<FONT SIZE=2>We received $60k for construction of our facility, and
are currently applying for a $148k Kauffman Foundation grant.
Shuttleworth Foundation contacted me regarding their assistance of
$250k directly for project development for 2012. This was all a
direct result of the TED, not to mention the flood of developers and
subject matter experts that contacted us after seeing my TED Talk.
We doubled our True Fans about 2 months after my TED Talk went live,
and now, most of our collaborators filter through my TED Talk. Also,
OSE Europe Foundation was started, and we recruited a resource
developer for the USA operations. Now, I spend less time in the
workshop and more on team-building and funding. </FONT>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Socially - the TED Talk took me to somewhat of
celebrity status, which affirmed my need to keep clear on core
values of service to humanity. I manage this by keeping clear on the
end-state by meditation – to maintain and develop our initial
core values of open source economic development for the benefit of
all. </FONT>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Emotionally, the TED Talk gave me reassurance that the
idea is truly sound – the reception to my TED Talk was and is
spectacular, and people are hungry to see this solution materialize.
TED has provided legitimacy for the project that was missing
before.</FONT></P>
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<H3 CLASS="western" STYLE="text-decoration: none"><A NAME="q1"></A><FONT COLOR="#000000"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">9.
Thought experiment 1: You are working in the developing world and
come upon a village that is very poor, in very poor health and with
virtually no access to water, education and electricity. What would
you (and others?) do to materially improve the village's quality of
life?</SPAN></FONT></H3>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE=2>We would secure $5M ASAP to
develop, document, and develop enterprise training around the Global
Village Construction Set - in as rapid fashion as possible. The GVCS
address all infrastructure needs: food, energy, water, housing,
transportation, and technology. Once developed, we would adapt the
GVCS for the particular village, at about $100k of seed money (this
is a point that we will develop and document rigorously). We would
plan to resolve all the resource scarcity issues on a timescale of 6
months by applying the technologies immediately. However, to leave
lasting change, we would use the construction infrastructure of the
GVCS to build a training facility/school so that the village could
learn and assume full responsibility for their well-being –
independent of foreign resources. Once the material foundation was
secured – the school could continue its teaching to other areas of
cultural and scientific advancement – in harmony with promoting the
wisdom of generations past.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE=2>But that is only the beginning.
Upon success in its own borders, the village would move forward to
train other trainers – to help thousands of other villages to
emerge from poverty. The village itself would serve as a beacon of
not only possibility, but also practical entrepreneurial activity.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">10. Thought
experiment 2: If you could design and create any product or service
(assume sufficient funding)what would it be and why? </FONT></FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>The
product of interest would be, so to say, a General Store of the
21<SUP>st</SUP> Century – comparable to WalMart – except all the
wealth is generated from local natural resources. There are 2 main
parts. First, this would be a facility with a local
supply/processing chain for agricultural goods. Second, the facility
would include on-demand, custom and digital fabrication of any
technological goods. Think of this as a combination of TechShop,
Walmart, organic farms, and automated microfactories all in one –
which are capable of producing the complete sustanance base (food,
energy, technology, etc) – from local resources. </FONT></FONT></FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>If
soil, plants, and sun are available – such complete bootstrapping
is possible. The only barriers are access to knowledge (addressed by
open source) and energy. We aim to address the latter via the
world's first, affordable, scalable, open source solar concentrator
electric system. Based on our prior data points on cost reduction,
we conclude that this is a solid possibility, and we aim to prove
this next year.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>In a
nutshell – the product is an uber-production facility – that can
produce all the 50 GVCS technologies, where these technologies are
used to derive any other products. This implies a shift of power –
to address geopolitical compromises. It is a practical program for
Civilization Starter Kit entrepreneurship.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<H3 CLASS="western"><A NAME="q11"></A><FONT COLOR="#000000"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: none">12.
What would you be working on over the next two years?</SPAN></FONT></H3>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2>The
single focus is completetion of the entire GVCS 50 tools by year-end
2012, with $4-5M of funding. Over the next 4 months, we are building
infrastructure on site to promote rapid development of the remaining
GVCS technologies. Starting January 1, 2012 – I will be engaging
full-time project management. I will be managing 10 projects at a
time, with 1-month prototyping schedules going through 3 prototype
iterations for each machine. This will be in conjunction with a CAD,
design, and fabrication team on site at Factor e Farm – where we
will test and dogfood our machines as well. For each machine, we
will also demonstrate economic significance by engaging in
production. This takes us to the next 16 months. January 1. 2013
will mark the kickoff of the social experiment: testing whether it
is possible to create a materially-prosperous community, whether
right here at Factor e Farm or in the heart of Africa, on the scale
of Dunbar's number in size - that enjoys 1-2 hour per day work
requirements to provide a modern standard of living (including
ability to trade) – via wise use of productive technology - while
at the same time avoiding contribution to geopolitical compromises.
We aim to generate data points on the above. These data points will
include - practical work requirements in hours; level of technology
achieved; sufficiency of local resources; happiness, satisfaction,
and meaning found in the population.</FONT></FONT></FONT></H3>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">13. Please
provide any relevant websites or links that you would like the
selection committee to see.</FONT></FONT></H3>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 9pt">Main
OSE website – <A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/">http://opensourceecology.org</A></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0.05in"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: none"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 9pt"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Rollout
Plan - </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT><A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/GVCS_Rollout_Plan"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 9pt">http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/GVCS_Rollout_Plan</FONT></A></P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0.05in"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: none"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 9pt"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Wiki
– Crash Course - </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT><A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Crash_Course"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 9pt">http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Crash_Course</FONT></A></P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 9pt">Progress
on Documentation – CEB PRESS–
<A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/CEB_Press/Manufacturing_Instructions/Frame_with_main_cylinder">http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/CEB_Press/Manufacturing_Instructions/Frame_with_main_cylinder</A>
POWER CUBE -
<A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Power_Cube/Manufacturing_Instructions">http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Power_Cube/Manufacturing_Instructions</A>
– TRACTOR-
<A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/LifeTrac/Manufacturing_Instructions">http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/LifeTrac/Manufacturing_Instructions</A></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 9pt">Infrastructure
under construction for 2011 -
<A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/OSE_Shop_2011">http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/OSE_Shop_2011</A></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0.05in"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 9pt">Team
Log at Factor e Farm to see what the on-the-ground work looks like -
<A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Factor_e_Farm_Logs">http://opensourceecology.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Factor_e_Farm_Logs</A></FONT></P>
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