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Tiberius Brastaviceanu

Helpful - 2 views

helpfulengineering.org

community platform engineering open hardware IoPA ecosystem social level

shared by Tiberius Brastaviceanu on 23 Nov 22 - No Cached
  • mayssamd on 21 Dec 22
     
    Global open-source PLATFORM and COMMUNITY organizing talent, resources and production capabilities to address systemic challenges using a "Volunteer agreement" found here: https://helpfulengineering.org/volunteer-agreement/ HELPFUL fosters rigorous and sustainable engineering-driven solutions Licensing agreement found here: https://helpfulengineering.org/licensing-guide/
Tiberius Brastaviceanu

CrisisMappers - THE HUMANITARIAN TECHNOLOGY NETWORK - 0 views

crisismapping.ning.com

GoodLabs_mapping

shared by Tiberius Brastaviceanu on 30 Oct 20 - Cached
  • Tiberius Brastaviceanu on 30 Oct 20
     
    "an international community of experts, practitioners, policymakers, technologists, researchers, journalists, scholars, hackers and skilled volunteers engaged at the intersection of humanitarian crises, new technology, crowd-sourcing, and crisis mapping. "
sebastianklemm

Engagement Global - 0 views

www.engagement-global.de/what-we-do.html

organisation potential_partner greens_for_good

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  • sebastianklemm on 19 Apr 21
     
    Engagement Global: The mission of the German non-profit limited organisation Engagement Global - Service für Entwicklungsinitiativen (Service for Development Initiatives) - is to support and strengthen the developmental commitment of the civil society. You are looking for ways of integrating questions around global development into your curricula? Your organisation needs financial support for running a partnership project in South Africa? Your enterprise wants to engage in Fair Trade? You would like to pursue a volunteer service abroad? We are happy to assist you!
sebastianklemm

Tyddyn Teg - Tyddyn Teg - 0 views

tyddynteg.com

organisation potential_partner equipment greens_for_good

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  • sebastianklemm on 02 May 21
     
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  • sebastianklemm on 02 May 21
     
    The Tyddyn Teg cooperative has eight members and some lovely volunteer helpers. We share a commitment to the importance of quality local food and the challenges of sustainability in the twenty first century. We see ourselves as part of the global family of small farmers and aim to become a practice based centre for research and education for sustainable local food production. Our primary objective has been to maintain vegetable production and meet the needs and expectations of our veg box customers. In this we have had a great deal of help and advice from John and Pippa (who were the previous owners of the farm). We are also supplying vegetables to Moelyci Shop and Dimensions Shop in Bangor. Our aims over the coming years are: Expand and improve our vegetable growing Develop the Farm to support WWOOFing Create new spaces for events Open opportunities to have a small scale restaurant/cafe on the farm Establish a luxury camping business where people can come and stay Provide a living wage to every member of the cooperative
Kurt Laitner

Forget the Foundations - In These Times - 0 views

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Madonna Thunderhawk financing foundation activism paper

shared by Kurt Laitner on 06 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Their “actions” didn’t involve writing grant proposals, discussing their concerns with a board of directors or contacting state agencies. They tested water samples themselves, and, in 1979, produced a study revealing high levels of radioactive contamination, a high percentage of pregnancies complicated by excessive bleeding or terminated in abortion and large numbers of children born with birth defects. Despite their work, the Centers for Disease Control and Indian Health Services discredited the study, and WARN wasn’t vindicated until the South Dakota School of Mines substantiated their claims that same year.
  • But unlike Erin Brockovich, this tale of local activists fighting against faceless institutions doesn’t have a happy ending: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission simply raised the level of “acceptable contamination,” and Indian Health Services started providing bottled water in one area. Congress authorized a new water pipeline to the reservation in 2002–only to have the funding diverted by the financial demands of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  • who defer responsibility onto do-nothing organizations, only later to complain about their lack of agency
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  • that foundations perpetuate First World interests and free-market capitalism, thus preserving many of the problems radical activists wish to eradicate, such as the unregulated concentration of wealth.
  • Foundations were created in the early 20th century by multimillionaire robber barons, such as John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, to evade corporate and estate taxes.
  • foundations divert money away from the collective tax base
  • who are more interested in supporting milquetoast reformers than social-justice organizations
  • federal and state funding for education and healthcare has shrunk
  • This is a culture of noblesse oblige, Ahn writes, where the “privileged are obliged to help those less fortunate, without examining how that wealth was created or the dangerous implications of conceding such power to the wealthy.”
  • is the power those with money wield over community leaders.
  • consequently realigning their interests (i.e., maintaining their jobs) with maintaining the system
  • This allegiance keeps community leaders from challenging the root causes of social inequities–the social-change work–at the same time that they pedal to keep up by providing for the needs of individuals devastated by institutional exploitation.
  • Kivel concedes this is valuable work, but points out the inherent injustice of this paradigm: “When temporary shelter becomes a substitute for permanent housing, emergency food a substitute for a decent job … we have shifted our attention from the redistribution of wealth to the temporary provision of social services to keep people alive.”
  • University of Southern California Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore urges contemporary grassroots activists to stop seeking a “pure way of doing things.” “Many are looking for an organizational structure and a resource capability that will somehow be impervious to co-optation,”
  • transitioning from foundation support to a volunteer collective reliant solely on grassroots dollars
mayssamd

Helpful - 2 views

helpfulengineering.org/volunteer-agreement

IoPA legal level organization innovation ecosystem level

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  • Tiberius Brastaviceanu on 09 Feb 23
     
    curating open innovation
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