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

Michel Bauwens michelsub2004 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 5 03:26:03 CET 2008


thanks Jeff!

Tere: could you keep track of these suggestions, for perhaps a later
roundup, and in any case,  I would really appreciate a report on your
workshop after it's done?

Michel

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Tere Vadén <tere.vaden at uta.fi> wrote:

> 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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