After the first example of a real Open Design mass product, we have now another example like this, showing us how Open Business strategies are understood and spreaded now. VIA Technologies, the world’s largest independent manufacturer of motherboard chipsets, from Taiwan, published in the last week the CAD files of his last product: the notebook [...]

Tags: Product Design, Technology

A very short report from Sci(bzaar)net, one week later.
First of all, thanks to Gian for this opportunity offered me. Participating in the organization process (even if only online, building the event’s website) and at the event was an opportunity to learn a lot about how we can make room for an open dialogue between very [...]

Tags: Crowdfunding, Design Research, Institutions, Italy, Knowledge, Open Culture, Science, Technology, Web 2.0

And the second announcement refers to the UrbanLabs 08 event, which will be held on 9-10-11 October 2008 in the Citilab-Cornellà (Barcelona), a space designed to activate, promote and expand the creative and innovative capacity in technology entrepreneurs, companies, citizens of the information and knowledge society and knowledge.
The aim of the event is to think [...]

Tags: City, Enabler, Information Society, Institutions, Locality, Open P2P Communities, Social Innovation, Spain