Blog Update Feb 2015

We are working on the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). The GVCS is a set of open source machines. These are key machines for building - 50 key machines such as tractors and fabrication equipment - required to build economies from the ground up.

- Open Source Ecology project has grown significantly over the last 4 years

The project focuses on the development of the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS): 

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The importance of the GVCS is that it's a set of machines that can go a long way to provide material security at significantly reduced cost - food, energy, housing, fabrication, energy, and other needs. Because the set is open source, the machines are intended to be replicated freely to create impact on any global grand challenges that are related to material security. Think - that's just about all the problems in the world today - directly or indirectly.

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The promise of the distributed network approach, as opposed to the broadcast (centralized) approach is that more people have access to raw productive power. We have learned that are plans are sufficient for someone to download and build machines on their own. In 2011, the first ever replication occurred.

While many people think about Africa when they hear about the GVCS - the set is intended to fix our own backyards before we take it anywhere else.

So far, 104 machines have been built in total - most being heavy equipment like the brick press and tractors, and also a few small ones like the micro Power Cube or 3D printer.