Fwd: OCCUPYEVERYWHERE SCALABILITY PLATFORM: Infrastructure for Emergent Self Organization in Dynamic and Geographically Localized Environments

[Suresh Fernando]

Some visibility into my NY activity... I am also representing PartyX a Vancouver based project.. details to follow!

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From: Suresh Fernando <sures...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:58 PM
Subject: OCCUPYEVERYWHERE SCALABILITY PLATFORM: Infrastructure for Emergent Self Organization in Dynamic and Geographically Localized Environments
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http://www.slideshare.net/sureshf/occupy-everywhere

Due to my interest in mass collaboration platforms and the timeliness of the OccupyEverwhere movement I`ve been reflecting a bit on the technology layer that we could develop to support occupiers worldwide.

I did some thinking about this problem today and generated the following presentation. This is pretty rudimentary but should be enough to give you a sense of what I am thinking. Due to the fact that many of us will be attending Contact it seems like a good idea to get the ideas out there asap! Here are a few of the basic ideas...

OBJECTIVES:

• Focus the attention of, and coordinate the resources from, those that want to support the occupiers
• Provide an infrastructure that will enable the self organization of a dynamically changing group with ambiguous collective objectives that are occupying a particular geographic location.
• Support the maintenance and growth of localized occupations

PRIMARY APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

• Mobile: we can expect people in the streets to be moving around etc...   
• Real Time: needs to be sensitive to the rapidly changing environment
• Location Sensitive: the context is one where people are trying to coordinate logistics in particular localized regions
• A highly robust GPS/mapping system will need to be at the core of the application framework

PROBLEM TO SOLVE
OESP needs to be able to take a number of discrete inputs from individuals that are not connected, in real time, process this information, and then provide feedback that is relevant to the organization and management of a larger group that has no formal organizational structure.

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