Colloquium Details
Grassroots Innovation: How the 'Open' Movement Does Economic Development
| Author: | Brandon CS Sanders Director, IBESI |
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| Date: | June 08, 2006 |
| Time: | 15:30 |
| Location: | 220 Deschutes |
| Host: | Andrzej Proskurowski |
Abstract
IBESI is a nonprofit organization that is bringing the Open Source ethos to job creation. Recognizing that innovation is the engine of prosperity, IBESI infrastructure allows ordinary folks to band together and execute R&D that helps "small and local" compete with "large and global".
1. Collaborative filtering bubbles the best ideas to the surface and
acts as a demand indicator. This enables a large group to quickly
form around an idea that many people like.
2. As a large group forms, individuals can pledge small amounts of
cash that aggregate to form a large pool sufficient to bankroll
the solution. This greatly distributes early stage risk, enabling
folks who don't have deep pockets to direct innovation.
3. Finally, the group must decide how to use the pooled resources to
accomplish their shared aim. Consensus polling makes it easy for a
large group of diverse individuals to efficiently create a plan
that they can all agree on.
4. Each of these core features is built upon an underlying foundation
of easy "content creation and sharing".
In partnership with the Oregon Economic & Community Development
Department and other non academic partners IBESI is in the process of
establishing collaborative partnerships with Oregon university computer
science departments. The technical portion of the talk will be followed
by an interactive "park bench" discussion of leading edge automation
elements where the U of O could add value, and the implications of
grassroots innovation.
Biography
Dr. Brandon CS Sanders is the technical director for IBESI, a nonprofit organization that is bringing the Open Source ethos to job creation. A self-proclaimed "collaboration enthusiast", Brandon's special passion and expertise is designing and deploying online collaboration tools that help large groups of diverse individuals quickly make creative decisions that everyone involved feels good about. While with IBESI, Brandon has been designing the "Open Innovation Economic Development Infrastructure" (OIEDI). The OIEDI employs "leading edge" software automation to gain radically new process dynamics that stimulate innovation and economic development.
Prior to joining IBESI, Brandon received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Rochester for his dissertation in Computer Vision entitled "A Theory of Quasi-Static Object Discovery."