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'''JNNURM, NREGA,''' and other development projects in Modern India
 
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Leo saldanha on the politics of co-optation in development projects:
 
[http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/urbanstudygroup/2006-July/002433.html]
 
[http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/urbanstudygroup/2006-July/002433.html]
  
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''Institutional Sites''
 
''Institutional Sites''
The Univ of Hawai'i at Manoa has a famous institute for Futures Studies. Debora Halbert does some good activist/feminist stuff there. Below is an overview of the field.
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The Univ of Hawai'i at Manoa has a famous institute for Futures Studies. Debora Halbert does some good activist/feminist stuff there. An overview of the field IN THIS PDF
 
[http://www.futures.hawaii.edu/publications/futures-studies/FuturesStudiesForSAGE2011.pdf]
 
[http://www.futures.hawaii.edu/publications/futures-studies/FuturesStudiesForSAGE2011.pdf]
  
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''Open Source Design''
 
''Open Source Design''
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If The Economist is onto it, you know it's mainstream now! And no surprises, they want to figure out how to profit:
 
If The Economist is onto it, you know it's mainstream now! And no surprises, they want to figure out how to profit:
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"The big question is how to profit from all of this fevered making. Does open-source design risk breaking the link between intellectual property and value, and doing to designers what the internet did to music and journalism?
 
"The big question is how to profit from all of this fevered making. Does open-source design risk breaking the link between intellectual property and value, and doing to designers what the internet did to music and journalism?
 
http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2012/11/open-source-design?fb_ref=activity
 
http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2012/11/open-source-design?fb_ref=activity

Revision as of 19:59, 17 November 2012

JNNURM, NREGA, and other development projects in Modern India

Leo saldanha on the politics of co-optation in development projects: [1]


FUTUROLOGY

Institutional Sites The Univ of Hawai'i at Manoa has a famous institute for Futures Studies. Debora Halbert does some good activist/feminist stuff there. An overview of the field IN THIS PDF [2]

The Institute for Alternative Futures makes this into a money-spinning consultancy gig! I can't quite figure out the politics of how this kind of pro-poor work actually functions: [3]

SF and Future Thinking The SF-encyclopaedia has a page on Futures Studies. It's not very well footnoted, but it makes useful links, pointing to the often-conservative politics of future-oriented thinking (from Thomas Malthus to Donella Meadows), and linking it to Science Fiction, as well as to a military-industrial-imperialist set of political concerns [4]


OPEN SOURCE

Open Source Education [5]


Open Source Design

If The Economist is onto it, you know it's mainstream now! And no surprises, they want to figure out how to profit:

"The big question is how to profit from all of this fevered making. Does open-source design risk breaking the link between intellectual property and value, and doing to designers what the internet did to music and journalism? http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2012/11/open-source-design?fb_ref=activity