Peer2Politics

Research project co-ordinated by Vasilis Kostakis and Michel Bauwens. Do you have a strong background on law studies and want to participate? You may contact the co-ordinator of this project. More to be announced soon.

There's a new kid on the Arduino block, and it's called the Arduino Robot. Launched yesterday at Maker Faire Bay Area, it's the company's first product that extends beyond single microcontroller boards. The Roomba-like design, which we first saw in November 2011, is the result of a collaboration with Complubot. It consists of two circular boards, each equipped with Atmel's ubiquitous ATmega32u4 and connected via ribbon cable.

In the lead up to Global Sharing Day, The People Who Share released the “State of the Sharing Economy” press release in order to highlight the immense possibilities through living "sharingly".

I believe there is value in honest work and acting with integrity. Somewhere along the way the hacker culture crossed a line where any workaround could be justified. When it did, it found itself on a slippery slope where deception was often a point of pride. And at that point, hacking stopped being a culture of improvement and devolved into being a culture of lies and laziness.

Gesche Joost from the research lab at Universität der Künste Berlin starts with the image of an interactive quilt that uses visual hints of interactive threat connected to an interface to tell stories.

What’s the economy of the future? For designer and SMLXL founder Alan Moore it’s ‘open-sourced’, ‘bottom-up managed’, ‘co-created’, ‘mass-customized’, ‘adaptive’, and ‘human-scale’. Don’t be put off by the jargon, Moore’s argument in No Straight Lines is simple and compelling.

CHICAGO — In the name of protecting us from hackers, computer viruses and cyberterrorists, the House of Representatives has passed a bill that would make it easier for websites, such as Facebook and Twitter, and Internet service providers, such as Comcast and Time Warner, to share users’ private messages and files with government agencies.

To function efficiently, there needs to be enough bikes to borrow, and enough spaces in the rack to receive returned bikes. Capital Bikeshare has a staff of 25 that tries to keep that delicate balance in order by redistributing bikes around the city.

Haystack has established a Fab Lab, a digital fabrication facility that will augment other studio practices. Fab Labs, a program of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Bits and Atoms, are an international network of small scale digital fabrication labs. Fab Labs are located in Afghanistan, Columbia, Costa Rica, Germany, Ghana, Iceland, India, Kenya, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States.

The maker movement has helped start many companies. This year, Maker Faire is giving them a place of their own, with a “Startup Pavilion” that highlights 20 new maker-centric companies.

At the meet Gary Dewing, managing director of Ericsson in Bangladesh discussed the latest trends, industry updates and the ‘Networked Society’ phenomenon.

For more info, please visit:http://www.openforum.com/yourbusinesstv Each week MSNBC's Your Business features experts to share their secrets for improving your business. This week, if you've never seen a 3D printer, the first time you do, you may have a "wow" moment. The possibilities that this technology opens up for small businesses are limitless. Here's a quick primer to get you up to speed on the basics of 3D printing, what it could mean for the future of manufacturing, and how several entrepreneurs are already using this machinery.

They are called FabLabs (Fabrication Laboratories) and are places where you can build (almost) anything. They are small-scale laboratories that offer all the tools needed to carry out digital fabrication projects: in other words, all those activities that involve transforming data into real objects and vice versa.