Dear Doug,
I have just discovered your conference
Program for the Future as I was researching how to communicate with Creative Commons to advise them of my
CC+COOPY initiative and hopefully gain their involvement.
Your cause resonates with me, in particular the 11.00am Session on Tuesday which I aim to attend virtually. I have been working for some time on answers to the questions posed for the session. and I reproduce your published introduction to that session below with my suggested answers. My web sites I have linked to are under construction at a preview stage and I would appreciate any feedback.
Tuesday 11:00 AM Innovating Innovation Panel
Leveraging People and Technology to Improve and Catalyze Innovation
The introduction poses 4 questions
Q1. How do we best realize Doug Engelbart's vision of combining people and technology to nurture innovation and better humanity, by addressing major challenges as well as creating new industries, products and jobs?
A1. Promote cooperatives in the Intellectual Property sector eg by the COOPYshare initiative (presently implemented as CC+COOPY).
The idea is to retain open licensing and add a commercial element by which sponsors and contributors
share fairly any revenue arising with democratic control. This provides a framework for licensing of copyrights and patents and fair sharing of revenue thereof, thereby the incentive to pool inventions which we must if we are to solve the big problems
Q2. With an ever widening digital divide, how do we ensure that innovation benefits all segments of society in both developing and developed countries?
A2. Build in support to help the less fortunate to participate equally in the information age, in tune with the education principle of the Cooperative Principles and as outlined in COOPY. Adopt our role in the educational objective of the Cooperative movement as being to empower all people with all the benefits of the Internet.Q3. How can we most prudently and fairly balance innovation risks and rewards?
A3.
Adopt Cooperative Principles.Q4. Who should participate in the dialogue?
A4. All people and institutions.
This means that across the many cooperatives we may need, it is likely that all people of any age or orientation may participate in one or more as may all institutions, be they companies, foundations etc. Their membership must follow the cooperative principles and license rules such as do no harm.The Big Questions
You mention the big questions and it seems to me we need to cooperate to solve the big problems. The cooperative movement can apply to Intellectual Property and should thrive on the Internet. Cooperatives increase real democracy as they must be democratically run by the members.
There are many inventions and innovations I would like to implement cooperatively. Some are introduced in an open Letter
Invitation to Cooperate. In particular, a game changing improvement in technology would be achieved if we could create the socially constructed personas which we can talk to as described in my
Web Collaboration invention and add them to web services such as email, Google Apps and equivalents.
I would like to add a Jamaican ingredient as a case study to help level the playing field for the illiterate and would put forward Jamaican Patois as a language alongside English for early implementation. The idea is that those able to speak Jamaican could converse with their personal system in their own language and this could translate to and from English. This is a backstop to the initiatives described in
Respect due to Jamaican on
www.liftupjamaica.com as Jamaica continues to suffer tremendous problems from illiteracy.
Here in Jamaica we also have a serious crime problem and I would like to see a "Global Watch" cooperative security system whereby anyone with a cell phone can contribute reports, photo and video to a Google Earth based neighborhood watch anywhere and everywhere we need it.
I would enjoy a conversation about these ideas at br@coopy.biz.
and assist those in need.
