, Software, Medical, Natural resources, Engineering; Exporting; and Illustrate a Clear use of Design in Company SMES. 37anord CONTROL SYSTEMS LTDPOWER Infrastructurecirdan IMAGING LTDMEDICAL Devices/Informaticsforest PRODUCE LTDFORESTRY Design is seen as the‘critical factor'that has got us to where we are.
without the toxic fumes users of other 3d printers were exposed To further innovation challenges including enhancing the working system including software, mechanical, electrical, electronics and industrial design.
in novel medical devices and medical informatics software. The company started in 2010 and now employs 20 people,
electrical, electronic and software design work to meet demanding customer performance and usability criteria. Through outsourcing industrial design and manufacturing work Cirdan plays an important role in growing employment and high value industrial skills in Ireland.
the programme involved five SMES across a range of sectors software, manufacturing and services based in the northwest of Ireland.
One of the key challenges in the implementation of technical standards for health is the fragmentation of the health software market.
whose impact continues to growï. 2. 3 Stakeholders A wide range of stakeholders will benefit from having ehealth interoperability standards in place including healthcare professionals, service planners, healthcare organisations, healthcare software suppliers, implementers
CEN TR 13694 Safety and Security Related Software Quality Standards for Healthcare Terminology and Ontology Standards Standards for health sector specific vocabulary to describe concepts and their interrelationships.
By contributing content, making information available or developing software, individuals play an active part in the digital world.
we are eliminating practical obstacles to Open source Software (OSS) to promote equality of opportunity. 3. Ensuring secure government communication We will maintain
Increasingly, these same citizens are not just users but also creators of media content and data or developers of software.
unless they can be sure that the hardware and software used guarantees the confidentiality of their trade secrets and the integrity and availability of their IT systems.
and to gain technical mastery of hardware and software components. VI. SICHERHEIT, SCHUTZ UND VERTRAUEN FÜR GESELLSCHAFT UND WIRTSCHAFT 33 zzto do this,
including geographical information systems (GIS), wireless sensor networks, data mediation software, and short message service (SMS). At the same time, the expansion of telecommunication networks into rural areas is one of the main challenges for the sector.
and is centred on the production and use of software. BPO is a diverse category that contains activities related to the management of enterprise resources (ERM), human resources (HRM),
Many young computer programmers are finding jobs working directly for software development firms. In addition there are opportunities for developers with entrepreneurial ambitions to start their own appsbased businesses.
This includes a need for people with skills to develop accessible software and websites for people with disabilities.
Media and software companies that engage in app development for consumer use under their own name.
97 there is a rapidly growing need for people with the technical skills who can develop accessible software, websites,
writing software or developing and manufacturing environmentally efficient semiconductors and other products for instance. Other green jobs will be related to greening the economy,
and software components. 116 Basic computer skills include (sample): turning a computer on and off; using a mouse and keyboard;
installing software and hardware. Advanced computer skills (sample: programming; using advanced features of productivity programmes;
and receiving feedback Skills examples Is able to use the collaborative features of software packages and web-based collaborative services (e g. track changes, comments on a document or resource, tags, contribution to wikis, etc.)
picking the right management information system (MIS) ability to assess rapidly changing technology tools integrating technology tools into business operations software updates data security
Innovative ICT solutions for youth employment 41 6. 4 Toolkits and training programmes There are many digital resources designed to help young entrepreneurs that have been created by the major software companies, many in conjunction
is a global programme that has granted over 6 000 stipends to post-secondary developers for writing code for open source software projects.
Students are paired with a mentor/s and given exposure to real-world software development scenarios and the opportunity for employment.
lack of software and technical support; absence of reliable electrical supply; inadequate student-computer ratios; ICT learning restricted to studying basic computer literacy and not for learning other subjects;
Coding Writing instructions for a computer program. Connectivism A network-based pedagogy that informs the work of MOOCS, OCW and other open access initiatives.
and produce software projects, apps, and other solutions. Hacker/maker space Community-operated workspace where people with common interests meet
323988. http://booksprints-for-ict-research. eufloss Manuals Foundationfloss Manuals creates free documentation about free software.
The first example of such reflections has been Free and Open source Software which has been investigated from many theoretical viewpoints,
e g. software development capabilities, social innovation concepts, etc. The ability to reach out to highly skilled people who can contribute freely,
Crabgrass https://we. riseup. net Crabgrass is a software libre web application designed for group
Liquid Feedback http://liquidfeedback. org Liquidfeedback is an open-source software, powering internet platforms for proposition development and decision making. 27.
/locale=en Loomio is free and open-source software for anyone, anywhere, to participate in decisions. 28.
and runs, the Slashdot-Like Automated Storytelling Homepage software. 43. Status. Net http://status. net Free and open-source social software. 44.
Succeed Together http://www. succeedtogether. eu/en A company that is creating a semantic engine which allows groups of 500 to 3000 people to answer questions qualitatively,
Twister http://twister. net. co Twister is decentralised a fully P2p microblogging platform leveraging from the free software implementations of Bitcoin and Bittorrent protocols. 47.
Ushahidi http://ushahidi. com Nonprofit tech company that specialises in developing free and open-source software for information collection, visualisation and interactive mapping. 48.
Yeswiki is written Free Software in PHP language under the GPL licence, used for creating and managing an internet or intranet website. 54.
Currie, M.,Kelty, C. & Murillo, L. F. R (2013)' Free Software trajectories: From Organized Publics to Formal Social Enterprises?'.
The Cultural Significance of Free Software. Duke university Press. Kirk, D.,Douglas, A.,Brennan, C. & Ingram, A. 2002)' Combining Cognitive Maps and Soft Systems Methodology to Analyse Qualitative Data'.
developers and social entrepreneurs are innovating with cheap open hardware, open source software, open knowledge, data storage and analytics and are producing valuable data about people, the environment and biometric and sensor data.
This vision requires more investment in fundamental research to promote net-neutrality, strong encryption, banning of trivial patents, open standards and free software together with the multi-stakeholder governance model.
Lowcost home 3d manufacturing tools (3d printers, CNC computer numeric control machines), free CAD/CAM software, like Blender, 123d or Sketchup,
Interesting trends are emerging at the intersection between open hardware, DIY culture, open source software and open data.
free CAD/CAM software and open source designs are now giving innovators better access to tools, products,
create visualisations using the Openspending software and to use the Openspending API. Although the Openspending project has a strong focus on government finance,
a nonprofit tech company that specialises in developing free and open source software for the collection, visualisation and interactive mapping of information.
open data, free and open software and open hardware. Github, the collaborative service for open software developers, is revolutionising the way code is built,
which can be programmed with open-source software tools by the user. The idea is that anyone should be able to turn an Arduino into a simple electronic device such as a light switch and sensor.
CITIZENS ENGAGEMENT AND FEEDBACK 6. Net Neutrality and banning software patents Banning software patents and defending Network Neutrality will keep bottom-up innovation feasible and affordable.
Software packages that are patented can be expensive, and less accessible to potential individual innovators. Also the Internet needs to continue to be a neutral space where creativity can continue to flourish. 7. Gender Equality in DSI Promote gender equality and empowerment of women through ICT in DSI by tackling things such as criteria for funding
and software with experiments to discover better ways of delivering healthcare or reducing carbon emissions.
(i e. free and open source software) can be obtained at a lower cost with a better quality from reliable suppliers,
In effect, open source software should be easy to acquire from government at all levels. Open source procurement As an example, in 2004, the UK government launched
and all public-funded software should use open standards. For a definition of open standards, see Openstand Principles48 Public sector information should be made available under an open knowledge license
as is done today by Fablabs with the Fabacademy, by Hacklabs and Makerspaces with free software and open hardware training,
using analytics software to test demand. Financial Value: There has to be a market for the venture to be sustainable
http://ec. europa. eu/internal market/publicprocurement/modernising rules/reform proposals/index en. htm 34 http://www. nycedc. com/service programs-entrepreneurs 35 http://www
In the Social Innovation Camp, an inter disciplinary group brings together software designers and experts in social issues.
yy proposing new promising models of participatory innovation based on open software and open hardware; yy achieving a better understanding of the techno-social issues related to key aspects of the networked society,
The CAPS participants share data and collaborate to reach collective sustainability goals on open source platforms (open in terms of software but also hardware,
For example, bringing together diagnostic computer programmes, call centres and nurses to provide new kinds of healthcare; bringing together the very old idea of‘circles of support'brought within the criminal justice system;
including software, gaming and music. Other landmark projects that gave people a licence to be creative in other fields include:
and the ideas being developed by Mydex that adapt vendor relationship-management software tools to put citizens in control of the personal data held by big firms and public agencies.
but is used increasingly to refer to services as well. 82) Fast prototyping emerged first in the software field,
and trains suppliers in the use of the software of the bidding process. The auction takes from two hours to a few days
and open-source software such as the Linux operating system, the Mozilla Firefox browser, and the Apache web server.
maintain, and improve the software. Peer-to-peer platforms can be characterised by decentralisation, self-selected participation,
volunteering and, in some cases, social uses of marginal business assets, such as Salesforce's provision of software to nonprofit organisations,
of alternative models for running schools in India. 455) Social uses of commercial technology such as IBM's use of translation software on its Meedan website of Arabic blogs,
One is new forms of mutual action between individuals whether in the form of open-source software,
Paris. 4 SUPPORT IN THE INFORMAL OR HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY 197 providing others, selling information on users and so on. 1 In the field of opensource software,
(which combined the telephone, nurses, and diagnostic software); magazines sold by homeless people; the linkage of gay rights to marriage;
software, cars, and retailing. Yet in most social fields, monopolistic governments sit alongside small units that are usually too small to innovate radically (schools, doctors surgeries, police stations),
1) the open hardware and free software communities,(2) the community of developers,(3) innovation labs, including Fab labs, Living Labs, Hackerspaces and Makerspaces (4) the open
1) the open hardware and free software communities,(2) the community of developers,(3) innovation labs,(4) the open data and open knowledge community,(5) smart citizens,
The open hardware and free software communities The open source community is a broad-reaching community of individuals who share an open source philosophy/culture,
Although in the beginning of the movement, a difference between hardware and software did not exist, nowadays,
we distinguish between the open source software community and the open source hardware community. The individuals who participate in the former support the use of open source licenses that make software available for anybody to use
or modify as its source code is made available. The open source software community is formed by programmers who support the open source philosophy
and that contribute to the community by voluntary writing and exchanging programming code for software development.
There are several examples of software that have been developed under an open source philosophy. Some of them are Mozilla, Apache, Openoffice. org, or PHP.
The open source hardware community is formed by individuals that design hardware (that is, tangible artefacts: machines, devices,
This is the case for Arduino, an open source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software,
Communities Focal actors Enablers Governance Failures Open source hardware and software Open source activists Firms supporting open source activists Communities Open source platforms Peer governance
analysis of the innovation ecosystem The open source hardware and software communities Within this wider community,
the open source software community and the open source hardware community. In both cases, the focal actors are the activists:
either they support the use of open source licenses that make software available for anybody to use
or modify as its source code is made available (open source software activists) or they support the open source philosophy
and exchanging programming code for software development (the open source hardware activists). Firms, organisations, and not-for-profit communities supporting open source activists are considered enablers within the open source community.
Among some of its guiding ideas, the P2p Foundation supports the principles developed by the free software movement, in particular the General Public License,
The best example of them is Github44 a web-based hosting service for software development projects that use Git, an open source version control.
although the author particularly refers to open source software communities. The shared ownership of open source projects allows anyone to fork a project at any time.
or an open source software community but in order to be engaged actively, good technological skills are needed. That is why many texts and documents refer to individual open source activists as programmers committed to the open source philosophy.
tech (software/Internet), biotech, clean tech, natural foods, and lifestyles of health and sustainability. Feld (2012) states that these clusters can be considered as networks for their members do not lend themselves to a command and control system.
Communities Instruments Motivations Incentives Open source hardware and software Government contracts and procurement Creating fast growing platforms (companies) Reducing costs (companies) Capturing value (companies) Reputation
Micro level analysis of the innovation ecosystem The open source hardware and software communities In terms of instruments, usually, open source products are free.
For example, open source software and its supporting code are generally free of cost to download, use and modify.
While R offers no cost access to its software and source code Revolution R Enterprise92, a proprietary spin-off, markets a faster version of R. The company can process very large data sets and offers, for a fee, training, consulting,
turning to open source. This has clearly been the case regarding open source software. In January 2011
the Australian Government released an open source software policy and guidance documentation for Australian government agencies to inform their use, modification and development of open source software.
In April 2012, the United kingdom released the second version of the document Open source software options for government.
In December 2013, the Italian government issued final rules implementing a change to procurement law that now requires all public administrations in the country to first consider reused
or free software before committing to proprietary licenses. Open source hardware is not that popular among governments although there a few interesting examples.
open hardware and software packages for citizen-led environmental data collection supported by a small data platform for analysis and advocacy.
Intrinsic motivations include open source politics (working on open source to limit the power of large companies, particularly software companies,
and because individuals think software and hardware should not be proprietary goods), community identification (for open source development communities are not communities only in a technical sense of the word but also in terms of identity:
Avenali et al (2010), in their study on open software and hardware innovation platforms, point to economic incentives (that may result in a increase of profit),
In the field of software, public services, organisations and territorial administrations collectively represent a major software user with great impact on the software market:
when an agency adopts open software, it also forces its contractors to adopt the government's platform of choice
The speakers, all leading DSI practitioners highlighted how digital social innovation is enabled often by open data, free software,
and banning software patents Banning software patents and continue to campaign for the internet to remain a neutral space.
Software packages that are patented can be expensive making them less accessible and not affordable to potential individual innovators.
European SMES, developers and social innovators are innovating with cheap open hardware, open source software, open knowledge, open data and analytics faster,
when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it, creating a distinct piece of software (Wikipedia) 47. http://www. barcelonastartupfestival. com/48. http://startupfestival. com/home/)67 49. http
://inspiration. entrepreneur. com/50. http://www. startupnation. com/51. http://steveblank. com/52. http://joel. is/),53. http://ryancarson. com/)54
and maintained including having the latest driving software Help car owners earn extra money by renting their unused cars out to strangers Capture new
by leveraging an evolutionary and open knowledge approach we have been able to engage diverse communities of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMES) in several regions of Europe in the adoption of state-of-the-art business modelling, software development,
and its frequent forays into very theoretical research as well as very applied and action-oriented research (Lewin, 946) through direct engagement with the software industry and socioeconomic stakeholders,
the technical infrastructure, based on a P2p distributed software technology that transports, finds, and connects services
and processed (by computer software and/or humans), e g. software applications, services, knowledge, taxonomies, folksonomies, ontologies, descriptions of skills, reputation and trust relationships, training modules, contractual frameworks, laws.
Also, in the case of Digital Business Ecosystem, an isomorphic model between biological behaviour and the behaviour of the software, based on theoretical computer science implications and leading to an evolutionary, self-organising,
business models, training modules, skill descriptions, digital contracts, software services, ontologies, dynamic semantic networks and taxonomies, folksonomies, tag clouds...
and ideas in order to understand how we could succeed in developing practical software technologies that reflect the social and economic relationships between people and economic actors,
combining an open source shared middleware infrastructure with software services, models and information that compete on the revenue models
and processed (by computer software and/or humans); potentially any description of the economic and social actors, their capacities, skills and the relationships between them (EC 2005a.
and the software services where there is a greater probability of their use. From the organisational perspective these principles imply the need for balanced
In other words, having embraced a holistic approach that highlights the dependence of the business models and interactions and of their formalisation into software services on their socioeconomic and cultural context,
Technology here is meant in a wider sense that encompasses the distributed infrastructure and middleware, the software services and applications, all the attendant web technologies,
and all the software development, requirements capture, and business modelling tools up to the boundary with natural language.
automating the generation of the software to interface to the underlying mediating technology through appropriate transformations.
'programmers will want to work on software projects that will attract a large number of other programmers. Lerner, 2006) 26) The third reason is simply the very large amount of empirical data on open source communities and software production,
which is certainly important for social scientists but less relevant to this discussion. 27) The acronym FLOSS stands For free/Libre/Open-source Software 28) An‘epistemic community'is a network of knowledge-based experts or groups with an authoritative claim to policy
-relevant knowledge within the domain of their expertise. Members hold a common set of causal beliefs and share notions of validity based on internally defined criteria for evaluation, common policy projects
and process view of a Digital Ecosystem that is compatible with the latest software and web technologies, with social systems and social processes,
and economically viable freestanding business model for free and open source software, one uncoupled to any complementary commercial activity,
the apparent willingness of profit-seeking producers of complementary goods and services to source software (Dalle 2005). 22 also express a process.
Regional Digital Ecosystem Network, http://reden. opaals. org Process Digital Ecosystems Structure Function Evolution Self-organisation Design Software Technology Model Community
Open source Software: Free Provision of Complex Public Goods, SSRN-id588763. http://citeseer. ist. psu. edu/bessen02open. html, last accessed/7/07.
Advancing Economic Research on the Free and Open-source Software Mode of Production, in How Open is the Future?
Towards a Critique of the Political economy of Free/Open source Software and Peer-to-peer File sharing Networks, Cornell University. http://www. shaydavid. info/indexpapers. html, last accessed/7/07.
Epistemic Communities, Situated Learning and Open source Software Development, Working Paper, Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Management, Technical University of Denmark.
Extremadura and the Revolution of Free Software, in How Open is the Future? M Wynants and J Cornelis Eds.
and Tor that are using bottom up privacy-preserving decentralised infrastructure for the open Internet constituted by open standards, open data, free and open software,
and open source software. Crowd-Mapping DSI organisations and their activities: The types of organisations working on DSI in Europe,
contents, software, and data, such as enhancing public domain and making digital contents and information more accessible and reusable by all citizens.
Low-cost home 3d manufacturing tools (3d printers, CNC machines), free CAD/CAM software like Blender, 123d or Sketchup and open source designs are now giving innovators
DIY culture, open source software and open data. Projects like Safecast or open source Geiger, the Smart Citizen Kit,
and Tor are using bottom-up privacy-preserving decentralised infrastructure for the open Internet constituted by open standards, open data, free and open software,
and the organisation behind Github, the collaborative service for open software writers. Academia and research institutions Universities and other research-driven organisations such as think thanks,
which can be programmed with simple, open-source software tools by the user. The idea is that anyone should be able to turn an Arduino into a simple electronic device.
Activity is embedded then in software and interpreted by algorithms through highly normative processes. This smart infrastructure is also increasingly getting to know people by aggregating personal and social data in massive data centres with little privacy and security.
which can be programmed with simple, open-source software tools by the user. The idea is that anyone should be able to turn an Arduino into a simple electronic device such as a light switch and sensor.
The software consists of a standard programming language compiler and a boot loader that executes on the micro controller.
The arrival of Arduino is said to mark the move from open-source software to open-source hardware.
Various educational and innovative projects and products have been built on the back of Arduino's hard and software.
or they can communicate with software running on a computer (e g. Flash, Processing, Maxmsp. 59 The boards can be built by hand
and the software can be downloaded for free. The hardware reference designs (CAD files) are available under an open-source license,
Arduino software is also open-source. The source code for the Java environment is released under the GPL
'Arduino has in many senses heralded a paradigm shift from open-source software alone to open-source hardware.
and software for the Arduino board. Arduino design plans can thus be downloaded and manufactured by anyone;
Open source Software Not only the Arduino hardware is open; the Arduino software is also open-source. The source code for the Java environment is released under the GPL
and the C/C++ micro controller libraries are under the LGPL. 61 Avaaz At a glance:
where the city uses the platform to source ideas from citizens to be debated in the city council on a monthly basis. Type of Organisation The Your Priorities software is open source
Open Active Democracy is the software that powers Your Priorities. As well as being made available on Github
As a nonprofit organisation, donated funds ensure continual development and maintenance of the Your Priority software.
The user interface has been simplified in every generation of the software to enable more people to participate more easily.
For each of those domains, an open software API is developed in one of the participating cities or regions,
Open source Software, which enables the uptake and extension of the software by the development community forgoing stifling discussions on IP and closed development silos Open Data,
as it builds software to publish Linked Open Data in standardised formats that enables app developers to make royalty-free applications that scale Open API's,
that provide a nonproprietary way for data-owners to publish (real-time) datasets use those in applications Agile Software Development, by way of SCRUM tools and methodologies Next to these,
standards are used like GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification) and Open 311, and languages like JSON and RDF API's written in Ruby and Sinatra.
While collaborative coding tools such as Github have challenged somewhat the often asocial aspect of software coding,
The project has also set up http://opendata. confine-project. eu/using the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) 23 software.
The overarching aim of the Everyaware platform is to develop an integrated hard and software platform
and software means that Fablab communities both benefit from and contribute to the value of these,
This open approach extends to plans for the phone itself and the software, although there is some way to go on this. 114 How is funded the organisation?
https://github. com/Organisation Name Github Short description Github, a San francisco-based company, was started in 2008 as a way for open source software writers in various locations to rapidly create new
to build better software together. Source code management was historically a particularly asocial (and sometimes antisocial) practice.
in the majority of cases the projects people use Github to collaborate around are code for websites and software solutions.
programmers or companies can use the collaborative platform for free as a place to build open-source software,
Though developed for software code, any types of files can be part of a Github repository,
and Lilypond music notation software files) can take advantage of Git's version tracking and merging features.
As the system of record for software, it is natural that the rest of the software development ecosystem (bug trackers, project management,
and will result in better quality software. Github has remodelled how programmers engage with Source code Management (SCM) a fundamental tool for programmers, that stores,
and merge software code, this same logic can be applied to any types of files that make up the Github repository,
what was closed in the past a, asocial aspect of software coding. By making its coding repository far more transparent,
or register for barely usable software before they too can get involved, etc. What were the main barriers to innovate?
(i e. a series of tests designed to test a software program has specified a set of behavior),
and software standards developed by and for the open source community, such as creative commons to set the standard for how campaigns launched on the platform should use
and open hard and software solutions to develop their products. The Nodo Móvil project campaign is built,
http://liquidfeedback. org/Organisation Name Liquid Feedback Short description Liquid feedback is free open source software
Developed by the Public Software Group based in Berlin, Germany, the platform combines aspects of representative and direct democracy enabling participants in the platform to both vote directly on issues
Type of organisation The Public Software Group who developed the Liquid Feedback software is a not-for-profit organisation based in Berlin, Germany.
History and mission The Liquid Feedback software was published first in October 2009 by Public Software Group.
The software was used first by Germany's Pirate Party that same year, and has, amongst others,
However the developers are fully independent from the users of the software. The Liquid Feedback software is published under an open MIT license
and free for anyone or any organisation to download and use. 130 At the core of Liquid Feedback sit an ambition to create a platform that addresses the gap between representative democracies where people elect representatives to represent
The basic activity of Public Software is to make the Liquid Feedback software freely available to organisations interested in using the platform to create a more deliberative process around shaping
it affects the software, which adds a reason to enhance and improve the overall performance of the software to take advantage of the new feature.
Low cost access open hardware gives grassroots audience the ability to turn their ideas into products or services,
Providing consultancy, bespoke software development and software products to organisations keen to meet the expectations of digital natives.
Developing free and open source software for individuals and organisations around the world who want to build copies of the sites mysociety builds.
Some of the most prominent websites and software solutions developed by mysociety are listed below. Fixmystreet-Fixmystreet Platform is built open-source software to help people run websites for reporting common street problems
like potholes and broken street lights. It has been used in many countries around the world, from Norway to New zealand to Georgia to Italy-where versions based on the original UK Fixmystreet website have been built.
& Freedom of Information software',designed for easy reuse in any country or jurisdiction. Citizens can use Alaveteli to request information from governments,
The software created for this purpose is called Pombola. It's free, open source and available for use anywhere in the world.
One of the benefits of mysociety being a digital NGO is that presently software development is globally a relatively lucrative profession.
As part of this they began to solicit commercial requests to do software development or consulting. In order to keep this activity within the bounds of UK charities law,
while developing‘a reputation as a software company that can solve problems that more traditional web companies can't.'mysociety Ltd.,
Web scraping (web harvesting or web data extraction) is a computer software technique of extracting information from websites.
Web and Software Development: Through developing software OKF are trying to create tools that support a global open knowledge and open data community.
One of the most prominent of these is the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN), one of the world's leading free open source data portal platforms.
In addition to building software tools for open data the OKFN also seeks to build the open data skills and capacity of governments and civil society organisations,
The open source software is used by more than 70 organisations from Berlin to Nigeria globally to release their data in to open data sets.
Through creating software that can be used to enhance the use of open knowledge, it supports organisations on furthering their work on, for example, open data.
A variety of technologies are being used in Open Knowledge Foundation, mostly web and software development related.
When switched on, users are greeted first by a command line code (which in recent years has tended to remain in the background of closed software programmes),
and software solutions for citizens to contribute to the mapping of radiation levels in Japan following the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011.
While the Safecast team along with a wider open source community is providing the hard and software behind Safecast,
and developing open hardware and software. Safecast describes itself as not being anti nuclear, or pro nuclear but pro data.
Safecast relies heavily on working on and with several open source hard and software solutions. Open hardware such as Arduino forms part of the actual build of the Geiger counter, crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter have been used to raise funding for developing different versions of the Geiger counter
the Internet and relies on a range of open hard and software tools. Open Hardware:
It has developed software tools designed to stop people including government agencies and corporations learning web users location or tracking their browsing habits.
The software the Tor browser bundle can be downloaded and used to take advantage of that technology,
The Tor software itself is open source and free for anyone to download and use. Enhancing collaboration and engagement:
*Open Knowledge Organisation Name Ushahidi Short description Ushahidi is a nonprofit tech company that specializes in developing free and open source software for the collection, visualisation and interactive mapping of information.
The current team (of 22 full-time staff) is comprised of individuals with a wide span of experience ranging from human rights 208 work to software development.
a free open source software that can be used to distribute and collect information via text messages.
(because behind the scenes they had been willing to share their coding with anyone who had approached them often talking them through the thought process that led them to design our software in a particular way) the decision to move to an entirely open source paradigm was made
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