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=== Some Notes and Questions from [[Organizational Strategy]] === | === Some Notes and Questions from [[Organizational Strategy]] === | ||
What about the environmental economies of scale that comes from living in cities compared to rural communes? | What about the environmental economies of scale that comes from living in cities compared to rural communes? | ||
''OSE position: We don't believe that there are environmental economies of scale from living in cities. A resilient system should be designed in scalable units, where full ecological integration occurs all the way from household scale on up to all civilization. The concept of OSE embodies full ecological integration at all scales. For example, Factor e Farm is being designed so that it is fullly sustainable from its local resources. Yes, that is correct. That is a very tall order if one considers advanced civilization, and most people deny its feasibility. We're on our way to show the world's first example that this can be done.'' | |||
two routes to commercialization: capitalist collusion or cooperative coalescence? CEB collectively owned by a farmers union and cooperatively managed or individually owned and rented out in a capitalist economy? | two routes to commercialization: capitalist collusion or cooperative coalescence? CEB collectively owned by a farmers union and cooperatively managed or individually owned and rented out in a capitalist economy? | ||
''From the OSE perspective, these distinctions are moot if one enters the economy of post-scarcity.'' | |||
In nations with a developed infrastructure base is the creation of autonomous infrastructure bases redundant and wasteful? | |||
''Absolutely not. You are invoking a false assumption that some nations have a 'developed infrastructure base.' No, the infrastructures are extremely inefficient. Please consult Vinay Gupta of Hexayurt for thought leadership on this topic.'' | |||
How can OSE communities leverage existing infrastructure base? | |||
''We are merely opensourcing existing infrastructures, thus making them efficient.'' | |||
“Right livelihood is predicated on autonomy in the provision of these basic needs. Otherwise, uncontrollable external forces such as employers, governments, or external providers of needs- produce misalignment with the most fundamental interests of the community.” Is trade not a necessary evil that produces misalignment? | |||
''One has to differentiate between trade on essential and nonessential goods. OSE does not support trade on essentials - simply because all communities should be able to produce their own essentials. Otherwise, unacceptable compromise is a result. We do promote trade on nonessential goods (car stereos, toothpicks, etc), which do not, by design, lead to geopolitical compromise. We even favor trade on essential goods if, from an integrated systems perspective, 2 conditions are met: (1), import substitution can be readily implemented in case of potential compromise, and (2), trade is more efficient. '' | |||
“Overpopulation is addressed as only the number of people is invited into a particular community as can be supported by indigenous resources.” – closed borders policy, problematic? | “Overpopulation is addressed as only the number of people is invited into a particular community as can be supported by indigenous resources.” – closed borders policy, problematic? | ||
''There are no closed borders, because local resources are flexible. For instance, a community that is at its peak can: (1) optimize its life-support capacities to absorb more people; (2) acquire additional resources, including land, by trade. In the post-scarcity economy, sustainability is addressed a priori - because a resilient economy supports a resilient population - and eliminates uncontrolled population explosions, such as found in cities.'' | |||
“Our fundamental principle is that information is the critical, frequently absent component enabling the success of endeavors.” Innovation economics | “Our fundamental principle is that information is the critical, frequently absent component enabling the success of endeavors.” Innovation economics | ||
History of socialist communes? How is Factor E Farm different? | History of socialist communes? How is Factor E Farm different? | ||
''We are not socialists, nor are we a commune. We are a private (meaning non-governmental), contractaully-based, enterprise community that proposes historically proven codes of conduct - if you want a technical description. The key is voluntary contract, which can be established to accommodate any population.'' | |||
Replace the word poor with the word “deprived” | Replace the word poor with the word “deprived” | ||
Revision as of 12:08, 26 October 2009
Pathways From Collaborative Open Source Innovation to Commercialization for Low Carbon Development
a research paper for Open Source Ecology
Rough Outline
- need for right livelihoods to subvert nonprofit industrial complex and coordinator class habits
- localization to avoid outsourcing environmental reliance, Kuznets curve and leakage
- political economy of conflict concerning technology transfer
- argument for open source innovation revolution of intellectual property regime
- hurdles to collaborative open source innovation
- incentives and commercialization
- ?current initiatives for low-carbon development?
- economic development theory on endogenous development and flexible production models
Some Notes and Questions from Organizational Strategy
What about the environmental economies of scale that comes from living in cities compared to rural communes?
OSE position: We don't believe that there are environmental economies of scale from living in cities. A resilient system should be designed in scalable units, where full ecological integration occurs all the way from household scale on up to all civilization. The concept of OSE embodies full ecological integration at all scales. For example, Factor e Farm is being designed so that it is fullly sustainable from its local resources. Yes, that is correct. That is a very tall order if one considers advanced civilization, and most people deny its feasibility. We're on our way to show the world's first example that this can be done.
two routes to commercialization: capitalist collusion or cooperative coalescence? CEB collectively owned by a farmers union and cooperatively managed or individually owned and rented out in a capitalist economy? From the OSE perspective, these distinctions are moot if one enters the economy of post-scarcity.
In nations with a developed infrastructure base is the creation of autonomous infrastructure bases redundant and wasteful?
Absolutely not. You are invoking a false assumption that some nations have a 'developed infrastructure base.' No, the infrastructures are extremely inefficient. Please consult Vinay Gupta of Hexayurt for thought leadership on this topic.
How can OSE communities leverage existing infrastructure base?
We are merely opensourcing existing infrastructures, thus making them efficient.
“Right livelihood is predicated on autonomy in the provision of these basic needs. Otherwise, uncontrollable external forces such as employers, governments, or external providers of needs- produce misalignment with the most fundamental interests of the community.” Is trade not a necessary evil that produces misalignment?
One has to differentiate between trade on essential and nonessential goods. OSE does not support trade on essentials - simply because all communities should be able to produce their own essentials. Otherwise, unacceptable compromise is a result. We do promote trade on nonessential goods (car stereos, toothpicks, etc), which do not, by design, lead to geopolitical compromise. We even favor trade on essential goods if, from an integrated systems perspective, 2 conditions are met: (1), import substitution can be readily implemented in case of potential compromise, and (2), trade is more efficient.
“Overpopulation is addressed as only the number of people is invited into a particular community as can be supported by indigenous resources.” – closed borders policy, problematic?
There are no closed borders, because local resources are flexible. For instance, a community that is at its peak can: (1) optimize its life-support capacities to absorb more people; (2) acquire additional resources, including land, by trade. In the post-scarcity economy, sustainability is addressed a priori - because a resilient economy supports a resilient population - and eliminates uncontrolled population explosions, such as found in cities.
“Our fundamental principle is that information is the critical, frequently absent component enabling the success of endeavors.” Innovation economics
History of socialist communes? How is Factor E Farm different?
We are not socialists, nor are we a commune. We are a private (meaning non-governmental), contractaully-based, enterprise community that proposes historically proven codes of conduct - if you want a technical description. The key is voluntary contract, which can be established to accommodate any population.
Replace the word poor with the word “deprived”
“right livelihood enterprise community” = RLC
RLC Diffusion and Deployment
- engage with right livelihood people’s movements
- leverage existing infrastructure base by supporting people’s control, public trust policy
Journals?
- ecology and society
- the land: “the mechanized neoluddites”
OSE Critique: We favor discussion on maaking technology appropriate. Technology, like any powerful tool - should be treaded carefully and with respect.
Survey Search Terms
- innovation economics, intellectual property rights (IPR), public domain, free and open source
Notes
References
- Söderberg, Johan. (2007) Hacking capitalism: the free and open source software movement Volume 9 of Routledge research in information technology and society.
- "The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement demonstrates how labour can self-organise production, and, as is shown by the free operating system GNU/Linux, even compete with some of the worlds largest firms. The book examines the hopes of such thinkers as Friedrich Schiller, Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse and Antonio Negri, in the light of the recent achievements of the hacker movement. This book is the first to examine a different kind of political activism that consists in the development of technology from below."
OSE Critique: We do not favor polarization of capitalists, socialists, etc. We're all in it together, and the discussion should focus on a better world for everybody, not which 'ism' is better.
Liam.rattray 20:39, 25 October 2009 (UTC)