1. Open Source Ventures
Integrating Resilient Community Platforms
The Wired Neighborhood
Integrating Resilient
Putting It All Together Community Platforms
June, 2011 Greg Burton - http://www.geniusnow.com
2. Open Source Ventures
The Wired Neighborhood
Designing past the corporate model of a "city in a box" is
desirable socially and economically. It's also more
practical.
Putting It All Together
June, 2011 Greg Burton - http://www.geniusnow.com
3. Opportunity
• Government Markets - $54 Billion est.
• Disaster Recovery / NGOs
• Informal Communities
• Grassroots Development
Integrating Resilient
Putting It All Together Community Platforms
June, 2011 Greg Burton - http://www.geniusnow.com
4. Current Model
• Liable to cascade failures
• Builds corporate value instead of community value
• Favors control over response
• Imposed rather than adopted
Integrating Resilient
Community Platforms
Putting It All Together
June, 2011 Greg Burton - http://www.geniusnow.com
5. Goals
• Implement a low-cost, resilient, community
communications infrastructure.
• Create tangible community-owned value
• Improve community disaster management
• Enable economic alternatives
Integrating Resilient
Putting It All Together Community Platforms
June, 2011 Greg Burton - http://www.geniusnow.com
6. Effective Connections Are Resilient
• Distributed
• Self-Healing
• Low-Power
• Cheap
• Relatively Secure
• On/Off-grid
Integrating Resilient
Putting It All Together Community Platforms
June, 2011 Greg Burton - http://www.geniusnow.com
7. Contextual Environment
• Geolocation / Hyperlocal
• Mobile Web
• Crowdsourcing
• The Game of Life
• Internet of Things
• Distributed Tech
Integrating Resilient
Putting It All Together Community Platforms
June, 2011 Greg Burton - http://www.geniusnow.com
8. Strategy
• Build on existing open source packages
• Integrate available data sets
• Support cooperative initiatives
• Provide workable systems that generate value for
participants and communities
Integrating Resilient
Putting It All Together Community Platforms
June, 2011 Greg Burton - http://www.geniusnow.com
9. Competitive Advantages
• Asymmetric leverage
• Improves disaster or disorder communications
• Reduces implementation costs
• Increases community wealth
• Integrates with existing communities
Integrating Resilient
Putting It All Together Community Platforms
June, 2011 Greg Burton - http://www.geniusnow.com
10. Road Map
• Develop detailed presentation
• Implement first generation integration
• List the next steps to take
Integrating Resilient
Putting It All Together Community Platforms
June, 2011 Greg Burton - http://www.geniusnow.com
11. Takeaway
• New models of wealth production and
distribution are desperately needed.
• Open Source Ventures on resilient
community platforms implement such a
model.
• Most of the required pieces for
building resilient community networks
exist today.
Integrating Resilient
Putting It All Together Community Platforms
June, 2011 Greg Burton - http://www.geniusnow.com
