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Note from Bill Fulkerson: The Drivetrain Approach: A four-step process for building data products. We are entering the era of data as drivetrain, where we use data not just to generate more data (in the form of predictions), but use data to produce actionable outcomes. That is the goal of the Drivetrain Approach.

Figures recently issued by Co-operativesUK show that co-operative business grew by 1.5% in 2011, twice the rate of the UK economy as a whole. This is the fourth consecutive year that the co-operative sector has outperformed the rest of UK business. The figures also show that it is not only in growth that co-operative businesses do better, they are also much more reliant - 98% are still in operation after three years compared to 65% of all businesses. Also 88% try to minimize the environmental impact of their activities compared to 44% of all businesses who state they do not take any action in this regard at all. Membership of trading co-operatives from 2010 to 2011 grew by 5.5% to 13.5 million people - the increase from 2008 to 2011 is 19.7%. Currently the number of co-operatives in the UK is around 5,900 - a growth of 23% from 2008. The largest growth by sector was in the renewable energy sector, and there are now 242 co-operative schools across the country.

Tibi contacted them to understand more about how Mastercoin can apply to the OVN model.

"We are trying to change the way medical technology reaches the world by making it more agile, user-centered, and democratic. It's a big challenge". selected by Yasir

resources on financing, market research and more for startups

"The BeeDome is a computerized system based on the Sitara-processor-powered BeagleBone Black computer as well as a specially designed "cape" plug-in board. BeagleBone Black is connected to the Internet, and stats are uploaded periodically to a website so that the company can closely monitor the nucs. The BeeDome also integrates GE Telaire T6613/T6615 and MG811 sensors to monitor the CO2 level; DS18B20 sensors to monitor temperature; DH22 sensors to monitor humidity and temperature; and Sharp COM-10636 SSR devices to control 120V devices. "Bee" sure to check out ForestDew Apiaries' website for more information on this "unbeelievable" project!"

you actually do get points for showing up, but you get more points for participating, and even more for saying something useful...

While I don't expect it to be this simple, this is something we need to sit down and do - my apologies as the governance discussion is in one of the 400 tabs I have open right now, I'll try to get at it this week. Note that the visual model is quite good. Something like this would be very useful. If we get too many decision types (the blue boxes) we might wish to use super-types for the visual model and layer it all the way down. The governance equation would tie into the 'participants' section. A very good jumping off point - of course the questionnaire doesn't really apply to OSH, nor do the decision types.

"While there's no "like" button to declare your affection for certain content, the app monitors how much time you spend with an article, whether you scroll all the way down, and whether or not you share it via social media, and makes assessments based on those data points." An example from a colleague of an application that uses ambient metrics to determine what you like without you needing to explicitly rank it - much more effective and efficient than explicit ranking, they could add _who_ you share it with to further qualify (shared widely, narrowly, to respected peers, social peers, or senior peers, all of which are also ambiently determined, possibly in combination with some user provided metadata through other processes)

So how do we finance something that is extremely valuable both for individuals and for society - something that, in most cases, should happen, but often won't happen because the risks are too high? The best way is to spread the risk. That's how insurance works. In Lumni's case, students share the risk with investors, who make more or less based on how well the students do. But they also share it with one another. Lumni pools its investments into funds to balance out the risks. They know that some students will run into difficulties, some will achieve average success, and some will do very well - but they don't know in advance how any individual student will fare. And students don't know this themselves. Through diversification, however, their funds can achieve stable returns. What this means is that the students who have the biggest problems benefit the most. And, in effect, those who decide to become investment bankers end up subsidizing the ones who decide to become social workers. Since a good society needs many different roles fulfilled, everyone benefits. That, at least, is the theory. Economists are skeptical about human capital contracts - which were first proposed by Milton Friedman in the 1950s - because they have many potential problems and little track record. But Lumni seems to be making them work - at least on a small scale. Whether it can succeed at a larger level remains to be seen.

Promote entrepreneurship among students and members of the Montreal Community Support students with their entrepreneurial ventures by means of advising, funds, bank account, networking opportunities and much more Network with local business organizations and make their resources available to club members Give anyone with a project in mind the opportunity to form their team, take a leadership position, and bring their idea to an end

The role of non-rational mechanisms in convergence - social emotions like shame and guilt 

"Specific Challenge: SMEs play a crucial role in developing resource-efficient, cost-effective and affordable technology solutions to decarbonise and make more efficient the energy system in a sustainable way. They are expected to strongly contribute to all challenges outlined in the legal base of the Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 'Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy'[1],"

A wonderful concept for something I've been using far more words to describe - the Intimacy Gradient - love it!

good overview of some of the architectural considerations for an OVN

pivotal article and talk

" if you want to establish a world changing idea, it takes more than passion. It requires affliction."

"In April 2015 I was asked by Christine Koehler to write an article on value. She contacted me because she come across my work on open value networks, about a new organizational model that may be well-adapted to support large scale peer production of material goods. I accepted the challenge as an exercise to formalize the tacit knowledge that I have accumulated since 2008, when I became interested in the relation between the new digital technology and the shift of power structures in our modern society. I advise the reader not to consider this paper as a theoretical essay. This is only my effort to bring to my own consciousness the tacit knowledge that I am using in my efforts to help the development of the open value network model, and of the SENSORICA.co network/community, which is an instantiation of this model. As I get better at surfacing and formalizing these ideas, I also invite the reader to understand the heuristics behind my work. I let the reader place a judgment on the success of my work, which will make these heuristics and models that I am trying to expose here more or less interesting. Start with Scale of social structures and follow the links. "