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Il paradigma di Open Source Ecology

Marcin Jakubowski, Dott. Ric. 24.12.2011

parte del regalo di Natale 2011 di OSE per il mondo

Introduction

Il paradigma di Open Source Ecology considera che l'economia open source sia un percorso verso la prosperità del genere umano in armonia con i sistemi naturali.

Open Source Ecology (OSE) è un movimento per creare un'economia open source (Open Source Economy). Il movimento è composto da centinaia di imprenditori, produttori, ingegneri, costruttori, e sostenitori in tutto il mondo che credono nel potere dell'apertura e condividono l'idea di etica aperta. 'Ecologia' come dice il nome fa riferimento all'interazione degli ecosistemi naturali e umani e i sistemi ambientali, sociali e tecnologici, seguendo principi aperti. Leggere un ulteriore descrizione del concetto OSE, come è stato formulato inizialmente nel 2003 (vedi appendice sotto). Da allora, il concetto si è evoluto in una piattaforma per la creazione di un'mpresa distribuita, una solida base per una sana economia - una terza opzione economica che vada oltre il capitalismo o il socialismo. Il paradigma di economia distributiva ruota attorno all'accesso aperto alla produzione efficiente come un mezzo per trascendere la scarsità di materiale creata artificiosamente. Il paradigma utilizza strumenti e tecniche open source per lo sviluppo di una civiltà avanzata, liberando la forza dell'uso responsabile della tecnologia.

Attualmente il progetto principale di OSE è il Global Village Construction Set - una serie di 50 macchine industriali che consentono la creazione, su piccola scala, di una civiltà con i comfort moderni.

Mission di OSE

La missione di Open Source Ecology è creare un'economia open source che ottimizzi sia la produzione che la distribuzione, favorendo rigenerazione ambientale e giustizia sociale . .

Panoramica del paradigma di OSE

La spina dorsale di Open Source Ecology è l'accesso aperto alle informazioni economicamente significative, progetti di prodotti, tecniche e materiali per il rapido apprendimento in modo da raggiungere questo obiettivo. Lo sviluppo collaborativo, 24/7 in tutto il mondo, porta a migliori pratiche di progettazione - con il libero accesso via Internet. Quando la produttività economica è attuata come si è detto, vi è un effetto diretto sulla prosperità della comunità. con l'abbassamento delle barriere all'accesso, ogni comunità può aumentare la gamma di prodotti e servizi che può fornire. Collaborazione globale su di un prodotto e la sua progettazione porta a migliori pratiche se sono facilmente disponibili. Ciò si contrappone al paradigma dominante di oggi - in cui alcune aziende hanno i migliori prodotti o ne hanno il monopolio, e per definizione, il resto è mediocre. Aprire lo sviluppo economico ha il potenziale per aumentare il livello della qualità dei prodotti - in contrapposizione alla esecuzione della mediocrità attraverso protezionismo e monopolio.

Tutta la ricchezza viene dalla natura - rocce, piante, luce solare e acqua. Questa si trova praticamente ovunque. Eppure la presenza di risorse strategiche producono conflitti per la loro appropriazione. . "Ehi, questo è il mio petrolio sotto la tua terra". La tecnologia open source è in grado di affrontare questo problema - tramite il principio di sostituibilità. Ci sono molte strade per la produzione di qualsiasi prodotto o servizio economicamente significativo. La resilienza delle comunità dipende da una varietà di opzioni. Non appena libero accesso alla tecnologia diventa possibile, ogni comunità può aumentare il proprio livello di produttività e delle adeguate tecnologie - al punto che è possibile sostituire qualsiasi materiale strategico con omologhi locali - senza alcuna riduzione del tenore di vita - oltre a contribuire positivamente alla pace globale.

Transparency of the connection between technology and nature means that people begin to respect nature. This happens when people begin to respect that their well-being comes from nature. This transparency is facilitated when economically productive activities happen as close to the community as possible – not out of sight, out of mind in remote locations. This is true environmental accountability – as one tends to not destroy their own environment. Thus, there is a direct connection between transparency of production to natural regeneration – as people begin to make more sound production choices – by understanding the connection of production to the land. This means that industry no longer needs to occur in the form of toxic wastelands – but instead – eco-industry, on a human scale – serving the needs of people, not centralized industries competing for world domination.

Thus, technology and technological literacy are a way to reconnect to nature – not to destroy it.

The above depends on increasing the density of knowhow and technology in every community – which comes from the open paradigm – open information, open communication, open everything. The limit of optimal density of productive knowhow is the point that any community is capable of producing the full range of essential resources necessary for it to exist, grow, and prosper. This is not to say that trade should not happen – but for community stability – trade should be avoided on essential products that the community needs. As much as a community would want otherwise – when placed in a scarcity condition – rationality goes out the window and people start to kill each other.

For the first time in history – we have a chance to do otherwise. Unleashed access to information and technology – as availed by the computer age – means that any conflicts related to material scarcity can become a thing of the past. This includes resource conflicts, poverty, overpopulation, and even bureaucracy – as bureaucracy is not much more than a mechanism to manage scarce resources. Further, regulatory costs are minimized via technological transparency - as a technologically-literate populace of the open source age becomes increasingly responsible for its own actions.

This is not a case for conflict between the rich and poor, the city or the country, the first or third worlds – it is a case where open access to information helps everyone. As barriers to entry are lowered, social upheaval is minimized. As production remains high – and increases due to the elimination of competitive waste – prosperity can only increase.

This is a paradigm shift. That is the core of Open Source Ecology.

This does not address evolving as humans – in cultural and scientific advancement - or in wisdom that prevents us from reverting to insanity. Open Source Ecology only lays a starting point and foundation - from which evolution becomes possible.

Open

We support everything open. See the notions of open at the Shuttleworth Foundation - http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/about-us/our-philosophy/communication/

Economy and Ecology

Distributive Enterprise - The distinguishing feature of this paradigm is a focus on distributive enterprise – open publishing of not only product designs, but also of open enterprise models so that others can replicate best practices. There is a direct relationship between open design and lowering of barriers to entry. Productive enterprise forms the backbone for communities' infrastructures and their prosperity. Open access to unprecedented high densities of productive information means economic prosperity – and everybody wins.

The open source economy is an economic system marked by open access to best-practice designs and techniques for producing economically-significant products and services. One feature of the open source economy is Industry 2.0 – or distributed, flexible production – where access to a down-loadable repository of open source design feeds local, multipurpose digital fabrication facilities. Such facilities - or powerful Microfactories - can produce just about anything that a community will need - local food, energy, housing, or cars. This is distinct from centralized production facilities that exist today.

An open source economy produces designs by global collaboration, with development cycles 24/7 around the globe. When a sufficient number of stakeholders join a development process, it is a matter of time before the development cycle yields the best designs – and these designs evolve continuously.

Integrated Economy – open fosters rapid learning (open IP) and low capitalization (open source products) – ie., lower barriers to entry. Lower barriers to entry indicate that a single economic agent can have a broader range of productivity, therefore more resilience from economic shocks. In the limit of extreme diversity on the part of the producers, every community can attain a complete economy. If product evolution involves advanced techniques for material substitution, then every community can attain a complete economy based on local resources. This is the solution to resource conflicts. This is stability in the face of global economic upheaval.

The end of artificial material scarcity – Artificial material scarcity may be defined as the condition where – in the absolute abundance of resources – namely rocks, plants, water, and sunlight – the distribution to humans is drastically uneven. Lowering barriers to entry helps to distribute production more widely. Product optimization from open development includes optimization for lifetime of use. Lifetime design (ie, lower maintenance costs), combined with high productivity and low barriers to entry - indicates that material abundance can be the general human condition. This is a solution to poverty.

Transparency of Resource Use and Feedback – Rapid learning in the open source economy helps people gain numeracy and technological literacy. Technological literacy promotes the understanding of production – and specifically, the relationship between natural resources and human population. Local resource use fosters a high level of resource feedback loops – as the state of the local environment is easily observable. Such transparency of resource use is the solution to overpopulation in a rational (materially abundant) society.

Lower Cost – by eliminating competitive waste, the cost of buying or making open source products is reduced significantly.

Competitiveness with Globalization - When IP access barriers are eliminated in the open source economy, cost of production is reduced to production capitalization and labor. The cost of production capitalization, under the assumption of flexible fabrication assisted by automation - goes to zero in the scenario of community-supported manufacturing (think Open Source Fab Lab in every community). In the open economy of DIY ethics and local capacity and transparency - the cost of labor goes down – as the user can also learn to be the producer. In the limit of DIY ethic, this cost, defined as cost of external labor - goes to zero – and is replaced by one's time. Further, in the limit of lifetime-design products, the time required for production is minimized, as production has to happen only once. Thus, competitiveness with globalization is achieved by zero access barriers and local skill, and local social capital – a different paradigm.

Ecology

Closing the Nature-Technology Divide – Truly sound technology is not at odds with nature. We have a choice to produce technology in an environmentally sound way. For just about every harmful and polluting industrial process, a clean alternative may be found. Biomimicry shows us the way to do this in many cases. Moreover, truly sound technology should bring us closer to nature -

ie, if we appreciate that nature provides all material wealth, we are inclined to take care of nature. This is a case for educating generalists – not technologists or environmentalists – people who understand technology deeply to the point that they respect nature – and people who understand the environment deeply to the point that they they respect technology. Technological literacy is facilitated by introduction of true technical education, as opposed to industry standard marketing forces.

Product Development Ecology – In the mainstream, the designer is not the draftsman, the draftsman is not the engineer, the engineer is not the fabricator, the fabricator is not the user, and the user is not the repairman. While it is touted as the pinnacle of specialization, this introduces a lack of accountability between all these steps, and therefore, inferior product design when considered from the human ergonomic factors, product service, environmental issues, or wealth distribution issues. Open source design addresses this, as it is design by the people, for the people – and it is infinitely customizable.

Environmental Regeneration – There is a direct link between open source technology and environmental integrity. Open technology implies optimal technology – and one part of optimization is optimization for environmental friendliness. Thus, the trend of environmental degradation can be reversed to regeneration.

Appendix – Legacy Site for OSE

This is the legacy site for Open Source Ecology from 2005.

Archived on February 10, 2005, see Mission at http://web.archive.org/web/20050210084651/http://sourceopen.org/

Our Mission

by Marcin Jakubowski, 11.30.03

 I. What is Open Source?

Open Source refers to the model of providing goods and services which includes the possibility of the end-user's participation in the production of these goods and services. This concept has already been demonstrated in Linux, the open source computing system. With Linux, a large number of software developers have contributed to creating a viable alternative to the proprietary Windows computer operating system. Many people can readily see the advantages- all Linux software is free. Please read these articles on the concept of Open Source software and its implications for changing business. 
 

II. What is Open Source Economics?

Our mission is to extend the Open Source model to the provision any goods and services- Open Source Economics. This means opening access to the information and technology which enables a different economic system to be realized, one based on the integration of  natural ecology, social ecology, and industrial ecology. This economic system is based on open access- based on widely accessible information and associated access to productive capital- distributed into the hands of  an increased number of people. Read about an inspiring example of such an economic model being currently put into practice with respect to manufacturing vehicles.

We believe that a highly distributed, increasingly participatory model of production is the core of a democratic society, where stability is established naturally by the balance of  human activity with sustainable extraction of natural resources. This is the opposite of the current mainstream of centralized economies, which have a structurally built-in tendency towards of overproduction. 
 

III. What is Open Source Ecology?

We derive our organization's name from a concept which refers to the integration of the natural, societal, and industrial ecologies- Open Source Ecology- aiming at sustainable and regenerative economics. We are convinced that a possibility of a quality life exists, where human needs are guaranteed to the world's entire population- as long as we ask ourselves basic questions on what societal structures and productive activities are truly appropriate to meeting human needs for all. At the end of the day, the goal is to liberate our time to engage in exactly that which each of us wants to be doing- instead of what we need to do to survive. All have the potential to thrive. Today, an increasingly smaller percentage of the world's population is in this position. 

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