David Weinberger

APRIL 25, 2014

Our political and economic systems aren’t working for most people. The NC has more acres than the National Park system. Brewster wants to show us how to build on free and open software. Stahlman tried to keep the open code feature-compatible, but it couldn’t be done. Instead, he created the Free Software GNU system. It was a community license, a distributed system that anyone could participate in just be declaring their code to be free software.

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Open Source eBook Software Library 157

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 10, 2009

I had previously written about Low Cost LMS and Rapid Learning Management Systems , but I receive an inquiry from someone who had a very constrained budget and wanted to build an eLearning Portal. Because of their very limited budget, I suggested they dive into more depth looking at open source LMS products. To help get that started, I looked at eLearning Learning and found some pretty good sources around LMS / Open Source and Learning Management System / Open Source.

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Open Source eLearning Comparison Cost 100

Nancy White

AUGUST 26, 2008

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Aug 26 2008 Open Sourced Bright Ideas and Micro Support Published by Nancy White at 8:02 am under Uncategorized , collaboration , creativity Via Emily Gertz’s tweet of a recent blog post of hers, I was led to Bright Idea Shade on mandiberg.com. Hopefully the open source values continue past their participation in Eyebeam work.

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Open Source Wiki Case Study Tips 100

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

JULY 24, 2017

Economic growth has two main components, productivity growth and the growth of the labor force. I ncreasing productivity is thus more crucial than ever to promote economic growth. But, in the US and other advanced economies, productivity growth has significantly slowed down over the past few decades. From 1987 to 2004 US labor productivity grew at a 2.1% Since 2011, the productivity rate has further declined to 0.6%. . US labor productivity grew at only 1.5%

Products 121

Products Productivity Metrics Policies 121

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

JANUARY 2, 2012

They are highly motivated to bring to market new products which offer significantly improved designs and/or lower costs, and thus gain competitive advantage and market share from the established leaders in their segment of the market. By investing in new products or processes, the company can sell them to their already large customer base and reap greater rewards faster. Mandel cites health, energy and education as examples of large-scale integrated systems in dire need of reform.

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System Complexity Innovation Company 162

Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

OCTOBER 18, 2017

But there isn’t a systemic way to evaluate what works. The challenge is, how can systems support this, esp. the learning management system. They used to be known as course management systems. And they create an expectation that ‘my system should be as easy to use’. Also, over time, if you look at the LMSs that can serve an entire institution, there have been a lot of attempts by other systems to enter that mainstream.

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System Innovation Change Features 148

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

AUGUST 5, 2010

This interest is a natural outgrowth of my work on highly complex systems , especially the kinds of people-oriented complex systems with which economists generally deal. Such a dramatic shift in jobs is largely due to the massive productivity improvements in the agriculture and industrial sectors as a result of the technological advances and innovations of the Industrial Revolution.

Products 123

Products Productivity Innovation Industry 123

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Strong leadership is required to rally a company into action. “A paralyzed senior management often comes from having too many managers and not enough leaders,” said Kotter. “Management’s mandate is to minimize risk and to keep the current system operating.

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Company Change Education Open Source 197

Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 2, 2011

Continuing our series of conversations between friend and fellow futurist Gerd Leonhard and myself, here are some discursive thoughts on open versus closed systems. Here are a few of the points we make in the video: * Many executives want to know whether and why they need to open up their business models and customer interactions. Open systems are faster, more viral, have more innovation, and are more fun to work in.

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System Web 2.0 Open Source Strategy 92

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

JANUARY 12, 2016

Until the early 1990s, it was quite difficult to get different IT systems to talk to each other. Just sending an e-mail across two different applications from two different vendors was quite a chore, as was sharing information across disparate systems. Then in the 1990s, the open Internet protocol, - TCP/IP , - was widely embraced by the general IT marketplace, making it possible to interconnect systems and applications from any vendors.

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Innovation Open Source Press Release Industry 156

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

JULY 28, 2015

Our educational system has long been based on the assumption that learning is mostly about acquiring knowledge as well as critical skills to enable us to apply whatever we learned in school throughout our careers, say 30 - 40 years. At the other end are market-facing innovations, which we generally associate with entrepreneurs, startups, and established companies working to develop new products, services, business models and companies. The Open Source Movement.

Open Source 218

Open Source System Issues Education 218

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

APRIL 18, 2020

In the 1980s, rapid advances in microprocessors and related technologies opened the door for less expensive, PC- and UNIX-based client-server solutions. Highly talented people should have anticipated the potential disruptive technology and market shift, - the equivalent of spotting an incoming asteroid, - years before, and should have started to get ready for the new environment by developing the appropriate product and market strategies.

Company 162

Company Software Survey Industry 162

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

JUNE 20, 2020

“The golden age of globalisation, in 1990-2010, was something to behold,” wrote The Economist in a January, 2019 article. “Commerce soared as the cost of shifting goods in ships and planes fell, phone calls got cheaper, tariffs were cut and the financial system liberalised.”. Those local subsidiaries tended to have control over sales, manufacturing and other business functions, while the parent company continued to perform such tasks as R&D, finance and product management.

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Cost LinkedIn Company Open Source 122

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

AUGUST 2, 2016

The WEF report compared the blockchain to the Internet, noting that “Like the Internet, the blockchain is an open, global infrastructure upon which other technologies and applications can be built. In the early years of the IT industry, the proprietary products of different IT vendors did not work well with each other. Just sending an e-mail or exchanging information across systems based on different vendors’ networks and applications was quite a chore.

Tips 159

Tips Data Comparison Security 159

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

These older companies have to both leverage the back-end systems, processes and overall capabilities that have served them well over the years, while adopting innovative consumer-facing technologies to enhance their customers’ experiences. Align technology and production systems with business goals. . Focus on agile product development to enhance customer engagements. . Reliance on legacy enterprise resource planning systems. Digital Product Management .

Products 183

Products Productivity Company Adoption 183

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

AUGUST 21, 2010

Both studies strongly recommended that IBM embrace Linux across its product lines, that IBM should work closely with the open Linux community as a partner in its development, and that we should establish an organization to coordinate Linux activities across the company. I used this opportunity to explain IBM's decision to embrace Linux across all its products and services. days, the community concept behind open source was mystifying to many.

Innovation 156

Innovation Open Source Firewall Software 156

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

JUNE 23, 2015

Given its intangible character, it’s not surprising that advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) have in turn led to advances in the way we deal with money and payments, as well as with identity, trust and other key attributes of a well-functioning financial system. Beyond the productivity improvements of the past several decades, digital technologies are now beginning to disrupt and fundamentally transform the FS industry.

Data 162

Data Industry System Issues 162

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

For example, when electric motors were first developed in the late 19th century, they were deployed to replace big steam engines as a source of power. It took several decades for factories to realize that instead of having one central source of power, they could now fit small electric motors in each machine in the plant floor, thus leading to far more productive and flexible manufacturing processes. .

Issues 197

Issues Security Industry Proposal 197

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

MAY 7, 2018

In general, they felt that there was too much hype surrounding blockchain, were skeptical about its value to supply chain systems, but expressed a wait-and-see attitude. Key here is the all-important role of open standards. In the 1980s, it was quite difficult to get different IT systems to talk to each other. We had file systems, but exchanging file across disparate systems from different vendors was really difficult.

Security 124

Security Open Source Data Industry 124

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

JUNE 26, 2017

Police agencies hope to do more with less by outsourcing their evaluations of crime data to analytics and technology companies that produce predictive policing systems. Despite wide adoption, predictive policing is still in its infancy, open to bias and hard to evaluate…”. Offender-based predictions exacerbate racial biases in the criminal justice system and undermine the principle of presumed innocence.

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Analytics Software Statistics Data 142

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

JANUARY 15, 2018

The strategy, which is spreading despite added costs and headaches, in part reflects a shifting view of the cloud from a more efficient, cost-cutting tool, to a source of business innovation and new revenue, chief information officers and industry analysts say.”. Some companies will choose to become service providers themselves, by selling their business services, - which they previously used only internally, - to the general market, thus developing new revenue sources.

Company 132

Company Industry Adoption Data 132

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

MAY 23, 2016

In the early decades of the IT industry, different vendors brought to market their own proprietary systems and networks. Everyone was using the same standards, including open source implementations of key protocols. These collaborations have led to the creation of standards, open source software and governance processes embraced by all participants. We’re hopeful that blockchain could now be such a catalyst for transforming our global financial systems.

Security 151

Security Data Open Source Industry 151

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

APRIL 3, 2013

Gross domestic product (GDP) is the basic measure of a country’s overall economic output based on the market value of all the goods and services the country produces. GDP is essentially a measure of production. While suitable when economies were dominated by the production of physical goods, GDP does not adequately capture the growing share of services and the production of increasingly complex solutions that characterize advanced economies.

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Statistics Metrics Policies Issues 213

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

MARCH 13, 2017

Over the years I’ve learned that when trying to explain a complex new concept or product, it’s important to engage in a kind-of conversation with your intended audience, where you talk about what's in your mind, your questions, your doubts, what you know and what you don't know. In short, you’re telling a story about the concept, product or brand you’re trying to explain. Storytelling is widely used in the development of brands for products as well as companies.

Security 148

Security Issues Cost Open Source 148

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

AUGUST 14, 2013

Since the advent of the steam engine in the late 18th century, technology advances have been radically improving the productivity of business, enabling companies to significantly lower their prices while providing higher quality products and services. The industrial economy has been primarily based on production , with GDP as the key measure of economic activity. This results in market efficiencies that bear new products, services, and business growth.” .

Collaboration 215

Collaboration Issues Products Productivity 215

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

MAY 31, 2016

If the case of light is representative of those products that have caused tectonic shifts in output and consumption, then this raises the question of whether the conventional measures of real-output and real-wage growth over the last two centuries come close to capturing the true growth.”. According to The Economist, not only is GDP a poor measure of material well-being and prosperity, but it’s not even a reliable gauge of production.

Price 148

Price Statistics Data Metrics 148

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

MAY 7, 2018

In general, they felt that there was too much hype surrounding blockchain, were skeptical about its value to supply chain systems, but expressed a wait-and-see attitude. Key here is the all-important role of open standards. In the 1980s, it was quite difficult to get different IT systems to talk to each other. We had file systems, but exchanging file across disparate systems from different vendors was really difficult.

Security 100

Security Open Source Data Industry 100

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

MARCH 5, 2018

A killer app is an IT application whose value is simple to explain, its use is fairly intuitive, and the application turns out to be so useful that it helps propel the success of a product or service. Contracts, transactions, and the records of them are among the defining structures in our economic, legal, and political systems,” wrote Harvard professors Marco Iansiti and Karim Lakhani in a 2017 HBR article. “They protect assets and set organizational boundaries.

Security 119

Security Firewall Data Process 119

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

MARCH 6, 2013

Earlier this month IBM announced that all its cloud services and software will be based on open standards and an open cloud architecture. Standards and open source software are necessary to help cloud computing achieve the kind of market success enjoyed by the Web, e-mail and other widely used Internet-based services. Unlike the previous two models, cloud computing is totally centered around the Internet and related open architectures.

Software 163

Software Press Release Open Source Industry 163

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

JANUARY 15, 2018

The strategy, which is spreading despite added costs and headaches, in part reflects a shifting view of the cloud from a more efficient, cost-cutting tool, to a source of business innovation and new revenue, chief information officers and industry analysts say.”. Some companies will choose to become service providers themselves, by selling their business services, - which they previously used only internally, - to the general market, thus developing new revenue sources.

Company 100

Company Industry Adoption Data 100

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Larson is Professor of Engineering Systems and Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT. He is a pioneer in applying STEM capabilities to a wide variety of problems in services industries, from urban systems to online learning. He mentions bioengineering and systems engineering as examples of STEM disciplines that are far removed from hardware, circuits and algorithms. opportunities opening up in the newly industrialized societies.

Skills 192

Skills Repository Module Statistics 192

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

MARCH 5, 2018

A killer app is an IT application whose value is simple to explain, its use is fairly intuitive, and the application turns out to be so useful that it helps propel the success of a product or service. Contracts, transactions, and the records of them are among the defining structures in our economic, legal, and political systems,” wrote Harvard professors Marco Iansiti and Karim Lakhani in a 2017 HBR article. “They protect assets and set organizational boundaries.

Security 100

Security Firewall Data Process 100

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

DECEMBER 15, 2011

ID³ , - the Institute for Institutional Innovation by Data Driven Design, - is a new multidisciplinary non-profit institution formed to develop architectural frameworks, open source software and educational content for the protection, sharing and monetization of sensitive data. Open, collaborative approaches have been successfully applied to the development of some of the most consequential, disruptive initiatives of the past few decades, like the World Wide Web and Linux.

Collaboration 142

Collaboration Data Software Policies 142

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

DECEMBER 22, 2011

This has resulted in all kinds of innovative applications, - search, e-commerce, entertainment, social networks, Watson-like intelligent systems, and so on. Until the early 1990s, it was quite difficult to get different kinds of IT systems to talk to each other. To make the Web work across disparate systems, he used a relatively simple, common sense set of standards, including HTML , HTTP , URLs and a few others. Many companies embraced this collaborative, open culture.

Open Source 154

Open Source Collaboration Issues Software 154

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

AUGUST 16, 2012

The Summer Olympics are just about the biggest possible stage for everyone involved, - the athletes; the host cities; and the different companies involved in the production of the Games. We were worried that beyond a certain number of users, the response time would start to degrade, and if sufficiently stressed beyond its capabilities, the system could become unstable and crash. . The IT systems for Nagano and Sydney were flawless.

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Committee Project Report Products 141

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

AUGUST 12, 2011

Over the last few decades, it has been the leading region in the creation of new high-tech products and companies based on advanced digital technologies. Their university-based, high tech innovation model is particularly oriented toward finding The Next Big Thing , - that is, the next big technology, product or service that will take world markets by storm, transform whole industries, and in the process, create considerable wealth for their creators and investors.

Innovation 150

Innovation Industry Company Issues 150

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

JUNE 27, 2012

They want to leverage the data to create business value, better understand the behavior of their customers and help them become more productive. Given that the management and storage of data general comprises a distributed system with multiple parties, - e.g., merchants, financial institutions, telcos, service providers, and so on, - you need a collaborative, interdependent approach for the protection of data, rather than the current fragmented, independent approach.

Data 136

Data Security Report Proposal 136

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

I was also working part-time at the university’s 2-year old computation center, and still remember attending a presentation on the new System 360 by a visiting IBM executive. Later that decade, Linux was also widely used in a variety of Internet applications, including web servers and firewall systems. . Seamless support of open source tools and software, including Apache Spark , Node.js , MongoDB , MariaDB , PostgreSQL , Chef and Docker. So was its operating system.

Open Source 166

Open Source Firewall Analytics System 166

Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Don McIntosh An Old Curmudgeon’s View of Technology in Education I put together a director of vendors of online learning products and services - more than 2000 products there, including hundreds of LMSs. Everything happens in a single product. The system works because it adheres to a set of simple rules. This is also the place where free and open source software (FOSS) can emerge. We can very rapidly, and in very small increments, improve our system.

Technology 127

Technology Innovation Open Source Education 127

Doc Searls

DECEMBER 15, 2020

If you listen to Episode 49: Parler, Ownership, and Open Source of the latest Reality 2.0 But serious researchers should be able to see what’s going on inside the systems that produce these echo chambers, especially Facebook’s.

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Facebook LinkedIn Newsletter Trends 130

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

APRIL 27, 2009

The last group I want to mention consists of all the people and companies selling ad-on products and services on top of the basic computer systems, such as application developers. A central IT organization managed the operations, made the purchase and leasing decisions, and tightly controlled all the software that ran on them, including applications, systems management and development tools. Different departments could buy their own systems.

Cost 155

Cost Software Data Company 155

Doc Searls

APRIL 2, 2010

We should expect other hardware companies to launch pads running on open source operating systems, especially Android and Symbian. This is an advantage that gets lost amidst all the talk about how it’s little more than a new display system for “content.&#. Android, Symbian, Linux and other open OSes, with the open hardware they support, work horizonally.

Data 187

Data Library Journal Open Source 187

David Weinberger

MAY 29, 2012

Drupal is an open source content manager, Dries says. Today he’s going to talk about: history, open source, community, the evolution of software, and how to grow and sustain it. as open source, as “a full-featured content management/discussion engine…suitable to setup a news-driven comunity or portal site similar to kuro5hin.org and slashdot.org” (as it said in the original annoucement). Open Source.

Drupal 146

Drupal Collaboration Joomla Open Source 146