Andrés Delgado

On august 2010, I founded the Ecuadorian chapter of The Zeitgeist Movement, and I would like to use this as the milestone that defines what I do. At that time I was training myself to be a physician (2013 promotion, best graduate student). Both experiences forged my interest in science, social welfare, public health, technology and politics, as defined by Aristotle.

My faculty was the birthplace of the Ecuadorian Center for Evidence-Based Medicine, it gave me the opportunity to be part of research experiences (Hospital Pablo Arturo Suárez) and to visit a world-class hospital (UNM Hospital). At the same time it trained my English to translate small articles, videos, scientific articles (Grupo Farma) and even a book (Robots will steal your job, but that’s OK).

The Zeitgeist Movement, on the other hand allowed me to meet different people all over the world, learn about different cultures and political structures, I learned to make myself responsible for my words, to lead and to delegate. I’ve spoken, along with many other volunteers, in national TV (ECTV, Señal Cero Grados) and radio, in universities, cultural centers, even in our national assembly (Aug, 2013).

On September 2014, I joined the “Free/Libre Open Knowledge Society” project as general coordinator, a global participatory process sponsored by three government institutions to changing the productive matrix of Ecuador towards an open commons of knowledge economy.

Currently I work at SENESCYT (National Secretariat for Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation) in the new Organic Code for the Social Knowledge and Innovation Economy of Ecuador.

If you speak spanish, please visit my blog

Andrés Delgado

Team Culturing Information

WHO are you?

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WHY are you motivated to support/develop this work?

• Do you endorse open source culture?

• Why are you interested in this work?

• Are you interested in teaching about the GVCS?

• Are you interested in economic relocalization possibilities arising from the GVCS?

• Do you want to use the GVCS technologies yourself? Do you want to build them yourself?

• Are you interested in starting up enterprise using the GVCS technologies?

• Are you interested in having the GVCS technologies fabricated by your local custom fabricator?

• Are you interested in applying the GVCS to third world development? To redevelopment of crisis areas? To development of derelict areas in the developed world?

• Are you interested in starting up Industry 2.0 flexible fabrication enterprises for your local community, by drawing from a global repository of freely down-loadable designs and fabricating using open source fabrication equipment?

• Are you interested in the potential of the GVCS for developing local food systems?

• Are you interested in doing academic studies/papers, publishing books, or doing other analysis of our efforts?

• Are you interested in financial investment opportunities arising from our work?

• Are you interested in the distributive economic aspects of our work, and if so, how do you see this playing out?

• Are you interested in building renewable energy production facilities based on open hardware (solar concentrator electric, wind, biomass power)? Are you interested in building resilient communities based on access to the GVCS?

• Are you interested in creating a bug-out hut using GVCS technologies?

• How do you think that the GVCS can help alleviate the instabilities of global monetary systems?

• How do you think that the GVCS can address issues related to resource conflicts?

• How do you think that the GVCS can address issues of overpopulation?

• How do you think that the GVCS can address issues of resource depletion and environmental degradation?

• What should happen so that you become more involved with the project?

• What is missing in the project?

• What are your suggestions for improvement of the project?

WHAT have you already contributed to the OSE project?

(technical contributions, blogging about us, financial support, organizing events, translations, interviews, video editing, publications, publicity work, behind-the-scenes work, CAD work, wiki contributions, computer support, etc)

• Communications

• Organizational

• Computer Support

• Finances

• Sociology

• Home Economics

• Design

• Building

• Electronics and Magnetics

• Automation

• Metallurgy

• Engineering

HOW can you help?

• How are you interested in contributing to the work of GVCS development?

• Can you volunteer to work with us, and if so, how many hours per week?

• Are you interested in working with us for pay? If so, what services can you offer, and what is your hourly or per-project rate?

• Are you interested in a Dedicated Project Visit?

• Are you interested in purchasing equipment from us to help bootstrap development?

• Are you interested in bidding for consulting/design/prototyping work?

• Are you a True Fan? If not, why not?

• Would you like to see yourself working with us on a full-time basis?

• Are you interested in using the technologies that we are developing directly?

• Are you interested in being part of the world's first, open source, resilient community? The GVCS is the preparatory step for the OSE Village Experiment – a 2 year, immersion experiment (2013-2014) for testing whether a real, thriving, modern-day prototype community of 200 people can be built on 200 acres using local resources and open access to information? We are looking for approximately 200 people to fill a diverse array of roles, according to the Social Contract that is being developed. This may be the boldest social experiment on earth - a pioneering community whose goal is to extend the index of possibilities regarding harmonious existence of humans, ecology, and technology – as a beacon of light to benefit of all people on Earth.