catholic social thought and the openness revolution: natural travel companions.d_openness
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Marco Fioretti ([email protected]) 2013/04/05 St. Thomas School of Lawhttp://mfioretti.com Minneapolishttp://stop.zona-m.net Some Rights Reserved
Catholic Social Doctrine
and the
Openness Revolution:
Natural Travel Companions?
by Marco Fiorettihttp://mfioretti.com
Catholic Social Doctrine in 1 tag cloud
Nature and Role of Software
Software is not a stand-alone industry or set of tools, but something that:
makes every other “physical” economic activity work, from agriculture to space travel
runs every service used by humankind, from mere bureaucracy to healthcare, education, tourism, lotteries...
has an exclusive mandate to package and access in digital format every kind of information we need to live
Software is eating the World: finance
High Frequency Trading
transactions made entirely by software, in milliseconds
of the same stocks in your pension fund
Software is eating the World: car mechanics
“You can't choose where you service your car”“Dealership repairs average 34% more than at independent repair shops”“Independent technicians have an increasingly difficult job because big car companies hide information through software”
Modern cars contains so much software that we lost our:
Software is eating the World: medicine
Software is eating the World: legal work
“1 lawyer with Blackstone discovery
software
=500 paralegals doing
the same research manually”
Software is eating the World: copyright
exclusive mandate to “package
and access information”
=“control of the right to copy”
software is legislation
Free/Open Source Software (FOSS): software
developed encouraging sharing, redistribution,
modification and reuse
FOSS-like practices + the Internet have made it
both possible and affordable to create many
other kinds of “Open”
What (open) software has made possible
Open Education
“Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the
most effective form of defense spending there is.” Kofi Annan
Open (Precision) Agriculture
Open (DIY) Drones that only monitor and fight weeds
Open Hydroponics systems controlled by open HW like Arduino => fresh produce even in slums?
Open Manufacturing
DIY Tractor and Brick Press: 2 of the 50 machines with open designs downloadable from
opensourceecology.org
Open Manufacturing: 3D Printing
3D printer:creates 3D objects, drop by dropsmall, Open-Source machinery ( from 100 USDmakes low volumes affordable
3Dprinting for Development
1 person fishing boat, 3d-printed from recycled plastic
Open “Appropriate Technology”
Open mapping
The Gaza Strip basically doesn't exist in Google Maps. Ambulance drivers only reach people in need quickly thanks to the work of OpenStreetMap volunteers
Global access to “state-of-the-art, 1st world technology”?
Historically, it has never been a problem... in the wrong ways, for the wrong reasons. Today...
Afghan tribal gunsmiths Congolese homemade rifle
Afghan tribal gunsmiths Child soldiers
Today, Open Technologies...
Are still in their infancy, with much to improve, but...
Have huge potential to fight poverty and exclusion
Are only possible because of:
Software
Non-proprietary licenses (“copyleft”)
No patents
Cooperation and distribution through the Internet
Globalization, done right?
Characteristics of Open technologies
Legally adaptable to local, very diverse, real needs
Without permission, at the smallest possible cost
Perfect for decentralized work
Need and encourage cooperation, voluntary work
Support the common good of all their users
While profit is not excluded, it is never the main driver
Means of production belong to all users
Shall we look at that tag cloud again?
Open Tech and CST
Open Technologies
prove the modernity of the Church message
do not change nor challenge orthodox CST
they just make easier to put it in practice
Catholics have even more reason than others to promote, teach and use them
Marco Fiorettiwww.eleutheros.orghttp://mfioretti.com
http://[email protected]
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