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The
Transitioner — France
« Collective Intelligence
Economy includes defining new economic tools which will form an
important construct for comprehending the complexity of tomorrow's
world. »
Jean-François Noubel,
Founder of The Transitioner
Research and think tank network of people who
share a transdisciplinary vision about collective intelligence.
Theoretical, economic, technological and spiritual aspects of
the emergence of a widely spread collective intelligence are explored
in this open international collaborative wiki platform. The design
of new open source currencies is also in the heart of the project.
Open
Directory Project — International [in 62 languages]
« We have one mission
only: build the largest directory made by human beings. »
Michelle Carrupt,
Open Directory Project
Data base is made up by referring more than 3,8
millions Web sites, indexed and commented by more than 53,000
benevolent editors, in 62 languages! It is the principal source
of referents for some hundred search engines, among them Google,
Altavista, Netscape, AOL, Lycos, AT&T, Hot Bot.
Freenet
Project — United States
« …Anonymous,
uncontrollable, a revolution is in motion »
Aegir, Linux
French
Software to access the most important network
based upon peer-to-peer Gnutella technology. Allows for information
exchange, outside Web servers, in a form totally decentralized
and anonymous.
Geography
Network — United States
« We have designed
Geography Network in such a way that users could share their geographical
information through a simple Web navigator »
Édouard Rakotomavo,
Esri France
This is the first global cooperative data base
project for geographical information and services. Strong point:
a 3D cartography of the earth. Project managed by the world leader
for geographical information systems (ESRI).
SlashDot
— United States
« Certainly the only
place in the world where a good article can find 20 to 30,000
readers in a few hours! »
Luc Legay,
ru3.org
Not really a site, rather a society phenomena.
More than 600,000 contributors feed the most important forum of
the planet.
SourceForge
— United States
« The most important
development site of Open Source softwares in the world »
Collaborative development platform claiming the
largest developer community, working on 52,854 projects (December
2002) through the same number of diffusion listings.
Seattle
Wireless — United States
« The previous generation
created the free software movement. Currently, we launch the free
network movement »
Matt Westervelt, Seattle
Wireless cofounder
To project designers it's about setting up a high
capacity wireless network, freely accessible and utilizable free
of charge. No sponsor, no investor, no start-up, no association,
but an operation model entirely based upon a benevolent community
of users. "Applications must not be our business. Those who
invented Internet had absolutely not anticipated what the following
generation would do with it."
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