[p2p-research] Climate change, IPR and technology transfer

[Tere Vadén]

Great, thanks; I will check these out!

IPR=intellectual property rights

Best,

T:T

Jeff Buderer wrote:
> Michael, Tere
> 
> Just a few notes...
> 
> A fork of Integrated Farming 
> <http://www.opendigitalvillage.net/index.php?title=Integrated_Farming> 
> called Integrated Biomass Systems and then later Integrated Farming & 
> Waste Management Systems (IF&WMS) was developed by George Chan and Zero 
> Emission Research and Initiatives. It is also a totally open system. 
> There was some collaboration between affluent and nonaffluent regions 
> during the development of this program which is now basically inactive 
> within ZERI (but my organization is trying to ressucitate the approach 
> developed by George Chan and others in the ZERI network).
> 
> I met phil Jorgenson who developed the Quik Sticks (Grid Beam Building 
> System <http://p2pfoundation.net/Grid_Beam_Building_System>) system you 
> mentioned in one of the links listed below that points to your wiki. 
> Also a colleague and collaborator of his, Reinhold Ziegler recently told 
> me that they published a book about their system with New Society 
> Publishers.
> 
> Tere, what is IPR?
> 
> Sustainable Village might be an example of "across world" collaboration.
> 
> Wiser Earth <http://www,wiserearth.org> is a portal developed by the 
> Natural Capitalism Institute it might be another tool for stimulating 
> such collaboration.
> 
> Development Alternatives <http://www.devalt.org/> was founded by Askoh 
> Khosla who is now president of the club of rome.
> 
> There are also many development NGOs that facilitate this process. I am 
> trying to think of some good examples but there are so many out there 
> really. Possibly you are talking about a specific approach through. We 
> can discuss some of them in a later email if you like.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From*: "Michel Bauwens" <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
> *Sent*: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 9:51 PM
> *To*: "Tere Vadén" <tere.vaden at uta.fi>, "jeff buderer" 
> <jeff at onevillagefoundation.org>, "Franz Nahrada" <f.nahrada at reflex.at>, 
> "Pamela McLean" <pam54321 at googlemail.com>
> *Subject*: Re: [p2p-research] Climate change, IPR and technology transfer
> 
> Dear Tere,
>  
> I think you may want to confer with franz nahrada and his video-bridging 
> work and jeff   buderer, see cc,
>  
> no specific reply, but I have 2 delicious tags,
>  
> http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/P2P-Development and 
> http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/P2P-Aid, perhaps worth browsing through,
>  
> also http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Ecology is the place where I 
> consolidate knowledge on ecology/sustainability as it relates to p2p, 
> and discussions of these have been published regularly on the blog, here 
> through http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/category/p2p-ecology
>  
> going through http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Design and specifically 
> http://p2pfoundation.net/Product_Hacking,
>  
> I see:
>  
> 
> 
>       Agriculture, Development, Energy, Environment, and Sustainability
> 
>    1. AKVO <http://p2pfoundation.net/AKVO>, open source water and
>       sanitation
>    2. Build-It-Solar <http://www.builditsolar.com/index.htm> - Plans and
>       tools nd nformation to do renewable energy and conservation projects.
>    3. Canuckle <http://p2pfoundation.net/Canuckle>: designed to be the
>       LEGO of alternative energy. The first project is a highly accurate
>       solar tracker
>    4. Concentrated Solar Power Open Source Initiative
>       <http://p2pfoundation.net/Concentrated_Solar_Power_Open_Source_Initiative>
> 
>    5. OSCirrus <http://oscirrus.see-do.org/>, expandable, open source
>       software weather station built on inexpensive hardware and weather
>       sensors.
>    6. SHPEGS Open Energy Project
>       <http://p2pfoundation.net/SHPEGS_Open_Energy_Project>
>    7. SolaRoof <http://p2pfoundation.net/SolaRoof>, open design of solar
>       energy for households
>    8. WxMonitor <http://wxmonitor.sourceforge.net/>, Open Source Weather
>       Monitoring <http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Source_Weather_Monitoring>
> 
> [edit 
> <http://p2pfoundation.net/Product_Hacking?title=Product_Hacking&action=edit&section=26>]
> 
> 
>       Building and Housing, Furniture
> 
>    1. Contraptor <http://p2pfoundation.net/Contraptor>: aiming to create
>       an open-design construction set,
>    2. Grid Beam Building System
>       <http://p2pfoundation.net/Grid_Beam_Building_System>, reuseable
>       parts for building
>    3. Hexayurt <http://p2pfoundation.net/Hexayurt>, an open source
>       disaster relief shelter
>    4. Ikea Hacker <http://p2pfoundation.net/Ikea_Hacker> Do it yourself
>       blog on the base of corporate products
>    5. Movisi Open Design Furniture
>       <http://p2pfoundation.net/Movisi_Open_Design_Furniture>
>    6. Open Architecture Network
>       <http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Architecture_Network>
>    7. Open Remote <http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Remote>, an Open
>       Domotics <http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Domotics> community
> 
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
> Michel
> 
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Tere Vadén <tere.vaden at uta.fi 
> <mailto:tere.vaden at uta.fi>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello all,
> 
>     Next friday I'll be taking part in a small seminar organised by
>     Demos Helsinki on "Climate change, intellectual property rights and
>     technology transfer". The idea is to discuss models of technology
>     transfer to combat climate change and how ipr are standing in the
>     way and how open/p2p models can help. I would be very grateful if
>     you could point me to some examples and cases of open/p2p technology
>     transfer/co-operation especially between the north and south.
> 
>     Thanks,
> 
>     Tere
> 
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