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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. MORE
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. Everyone was using the same standards, including open source implementations of key protocols. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. These contributions can be used to build similar sense-and-respond resiliency capabilities on other systems. MORE
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. MORE
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…”. MORE
In the 1980s, rapid advances in microprocessors and related technologies opened the door for less expensive, PC- and UNIX-based client-server solutions. But, dealing with new, highly complex systems requires considerable humility. MORE
I'm just going to focus on open ed-tech. Our mission at Moodle is to improve the world, and we're doing this by making an open source platform. Education, openness, integrity, respect and innovation are these values. Open EdTech. What, then, is open edtech? MORE
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. MORE
From Eyebeam OpenLab comes and open source idea for making a cover for those glare-y compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs) we are all installing to save energy. Hopefully the open source values continue past their participation in Eyebeam work. MORE
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.”. MORE
why not both Home About Contact Saturday, 21 August 2010 The product-to-service financial ratio Yesterday I saw a tweet by Frank Scavo : Chatting with a vendor about implementation cost to software license cost ratios. Because the product is more expensive. " Business or Pleasure? - MORE
Earlier this month IBM announced that all its cloud services and software will be based on open standards and an open cloud architecture. Unlike the previous two models, cloud computing is totally centered around the Internet and related open architectures. MORE
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. From 1987 to 2004 US labor productivity grew at a 2.1% The Difficulty of Measuring Productivity. MORE
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. Digital Product Management . MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Great List of Presentation Resources | Main | iQuiz Maker - Make Custom Quizzes for the iPod - oh yeah, its free » June 23, 2007 "Learning objectives are best achieved when tied to real-world (not inworld) factors of production" (TerraNova) ( link to post on Terra Nova by Robert Bloomfield ) Here is a little excerpt (thats redundant and repetitive isnt it?).and MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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.”. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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’. MORE
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. The transition to a digital economy requires radically different identity systems. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
An open source approach to sharing research seems to be the optimal model for rapid knowledge transfer. Reinforce the power of scientific collaboration and the open-sourcing of global threats. Digital quarantines through better information and social credit systems. MORE
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. MORE
Continuing our series of conversations between friend and fellow futurist Gerd Leonhard and myself, here are some discursive thoughts on open versus closed systems. Open systems are faster, more viral, have more innovation, and are more fun to work in. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. The Open Source Movement. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. It then might hit the ledger of a bank in the international transfer system. MORE
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.
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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Nancy White
AUGUST 26, 2008
From Eyebeam OpenLab comes and open source idea for making a cover for those glare-y compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs) we are all installing to save energy. Hopefully the open source values continue past their participation in Eyebeam work.
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. From 1987 to 2004 US labor productivity grew at a 2.1% The Difficulty of Measuring Productivity.
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.
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’.
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.
Ross Dawson
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. Open systems are faster, more viral, have more innovation, and are more fun to work in.
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. But, dealing with new, highly complex systems requires considerable humility.
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.
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. The Open Source Movement.
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. It then might hit the ledger of a bank in the international transfer system.
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. Digital Product Management .
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.
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. Everyone was using the same standards, including open source implementations of key protocols.
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.
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…”.
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.”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”.
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. The transition to a digital economy requires radically different identity systems.
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. Unlike the previous two models, cloud computing is totally centered around the Internet and related open architectures.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. These contributions can be used to build similar sense-and-respond resiliency capabilities on other systems.
Harold Jarche
FEBRUARY 16, 2020
An open source approach to sharing research seems to be the optimal model for rapid knowledge transfer. Reinforce the power of scientific collaboration and the open-sourcing of global threats. Digital quarantines through better information and social credit systems.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
OCTOBER 24, 2019
I'm just going to focus on open ed-tech. Our mission at Moodle is to improve the world, and we're doing this by making an open source platform. Education, openness, integrity, respect and innovation are these values. Open EdTech. What, then, is open edtech?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mark Oehlert
JUNE 23, 2007
e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Great List of Presentation Resources | Main | iQuiz Maker - Make Custom Quizzes for the iPod - oh yeah, its free » June 23, 2007 "Learning objectives are best achieved when tied to real-world (not inworld) factors of production" (TerraNova) ( link to post on Terra Nova by Robert Bloomfield ) Here is a little excerpt (thats redundant and repetitive isnt it?).and
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.
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