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We address foundational work that is exploratory to the next step in our planning for a National Project to establish the knowledge sciences. This next step involves the development of wireless peer-to-peer knowledge operating systems using Open Source and thus non-commercial software.
http://www.bcngroup.org/python3/fortyfour.htm
We have established a deep working awareness of Linux and Open Source software. Our citizen centric software systems have the property that the operating systems and all software code is open to inspection and thus provides no hidden executables from which symmetric threats can arise.
We call this system a Knowledge Operating Systems or KOS. We imagine the KOS as a virtual school where all transactions are transparent to a school administrator. Educational services are the most important of the KOS services.
No commercial processes will be present. This same system serves as a component of local government and as an enhancement to security and health care. Micro-transaction accounting will provide the 100% transactional transparency and this micro-transaction accounting will interface with a banking system to provide measurement and compensation for services used by citizens. A single payer will choose all services offered within the KOS.
The use of mature Open Source software is foundational. An un-informed desire to use commercial software within the computer infrastructure and in the physical infrastructure, building and towers, will be hard to over-come. However, once accepted, non-commercial software establishes a stable foundation for persistent and sustainable citizen centric services.
The Founding Group understands embedded processes and how networks of these processes work together. In America’s rural communities we are able to provide an Open Source, non-propitiatory network of computers and personal digital device. The very first of these proto-type a wireless based eTown Hall that supplement educational, health care, security and crisis management functions of local government.
This is a long discussion. We are developing a set of templates that will work in geographically different areas of the United States.
Our hope is that the AIC process development model (www.odii.com) will be seen to bring forward the conditions that match exactly the social/cultural facts on the ground so that a simple process transformation is both funded in an easy and rapid fashion and is seen as reasonable and desirable by all of the political and cultural elements of the local government.
The Founding Group has worked on the social science aspects of rural community transformation projects. Something like a study of the "boredom syndromes" such as alcohol abuse, rowdy behavior in bars, etc.
Our interest is in a bi – partisan discussion about rural development. We again use the AIC (appreciative, influence, control) process development model. It is very easy to collapse an appreciative social field, so be careful, as this process has been advanced to this point with dedicated care and with very limited resources.
A group of has been working on the knowledge operating system and what we are calling the Python(3)-Linux Knowledge Technology Toolkit for Kids (K-12).
http://www.bcngroup.org/python3/home.htm
These underlying design principles are to be expressed as the creator of the Python language continues some new work on making the Python language simpler and over coming a small set of issues that he has thought about for some time. Another group is working on wireless "clients" that run on a minimal Linux distribution for pocket devices.
We see Brad Cox's influence through the use of the principle of superDistribution and through some of his new work on virtual schools.
The principles we are working with are to be developed as an educational environment designed to teach a new type of computer technology called human information production and stand this up within the Linux operating system.
These principles are to be used to propose a citizen centric eTown Hall using a wireless operating system and the new computer science (taught in the Toolkit).
The eTown Hall environment is designed to "fit-over" those communities that lie at the last mile of Internet and electric networks. Globally, these local governments will have a high degree of self-sufficiency and economic sustainability.