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"During September and October, several academic institutions across Europe are hosting Information Days to explore the 'Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation' (CAPS) initiative, which will provide funding for research within call 10 of the workprogramme 2013 of the EU ICT programme (Objective ICT-2013.5.5).These information days will provide the opportunity for networking among participants and preparation of proposals among this call and objective."

"What is Sociocracy? Sociocracy is a method of designing harmonious organizations, workplaces and associations in which each member is valued equally. It is based on creating self-optimizing systems that are effective and productive. The principles and practices were developed by Gerard Endenburg based on: Modern management theory and practices Quaker traditions of peace education and the valuing of each person Cybernetics, the science of communications and control"

"PD Dr. Joachim Clemens, Prof. Dr. Heiner Goldbach, University of Bonn, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES), Plant Nutrition, Karlrobert-Kreiten-Straße 13, D 53115, Germany Tel.  (+49)-228-732850 (Goldbach)  (+49)-228-732150 (Clemens) Fax: (+49)-228-732489 Email: h.goldbach@uni-bonn.de           a.clemens@uni-bonn.de"

Concerning the abstraction of industrialized objects and devices, here the quote of German Sociologist Max Weber in Politics as a Vocation, 1919. Quote: "Unless he is a physicist, one who rides on the streetcar has no idea how the car happened to get into motion. And he does not need to know. He is satisfied that he may 'count' on the behavior of the streetcar, and he orients his conduct according to this expectation; but he knows nothing about what it takes to produce such a car so that it can move. The savage knows incomparably more about his tools".

Elinor Ostrom received the 2009 Nobel Price in Economic for her work on the Commons. She showed how common resources - forests, fisheries, oil fields or grazing lands, can be managed successfully by the people who use them, rather than by governments or private companies.

Here we can see that Opensource Hardware" is a n expression mostly used for computer-related hardware. It is intersting to evaluate if OSE and wikispeed should relate to other branches of opensources, non-computerized ones ?

connected to OSE