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This toolbox contains eight tools that guide you through a circular innovation process and provide you with the resources you need along the way.

This is a resource for companies and organizations who want to work more creatively and collaboratively in their team or organization towards circularity.

The methods are divided into three categories:

    Exploring the problem space
    (Co)-creating new circular solutions
    Making the future concrete

Each tool has step-by-step process guides and is free of charge. Some of the tools are unique to our methodology, and some are borrowed from other organizations.

We’ve put together this toolkit through inputs from partners and engaged individuals. Our goal is to keep developing the toolkit, so the next step is to test the tools and the order of use with businesses and organizations. We’ll keep updating the kit with new knowledge.

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A 6º BaixaCharla tratou de “Tecnodiversidade”, primeira obra publicada no Brasil por Yuk Hui, filósofo da tecnologia, atualmente professor da Universidade da Cidade de Hong Kong. Lançada em 2020 pela Ubu, o livro reúne alguns dos principais textos recentes (de 2017 pra cá) em que Hui debate tecnologia, política, filosofia, ecologia e inteligência artificial com ênfase no que ele chama de “cosmotécnicas”, tecnologias desenvolvidas em contextos locais e particulares que poderiam conter saídas para a atual crise ecológica, política e social do planeta.
Leonardo Foletto, editor do BaixaCultura, conversou com Pedro Telles da Silveira, que atualmente realiza estágio de pós-doutoramento FAPESP na Unicamp.

Do we end up in a position where a critique of technology functions as part of the same technological system — i.e., where criticism becomes just another piece of input, another feedback loop programmed into the machinery? If we really think cybernetically, when we repair or upgrade a machine, program, or mechanism, are we not also becoming a part of the machinery, an instrument for its improvement?

Yes, according to what we call second-order cybernetics, humans and machines are connected in a recursive movement, which becomes an instance of what Hegel calls a master-slave dialectic.

Last week, three years of arguing with industry finally paid off, as the European standard EN45554 was published. This official document with an unexciting name details ”general methods for the assessment of the ability to repair, reuse and upgrade energy-related products.” In plain English, it’s a standard for measuring how easy it is to repair stuff. It’s also a huge milestone for the fight for fair repair.

In this seminar we will explore tensions around the emergence of population as a managerial category starting in the second half of the 20th century and the production of scarcity under contemporary capitalism; the development of new technologies of birth control — from menstrual tracking apps to smart implants; and the norms currently associating population growth with the climate crisis. The course will be divided into three modules, each focusing on one of the previously mentioned topics;

ECONOMIC SPACE AGENCY – PROTOCOLS FOR POST-CAPITALIST ECONOMIC EXPRESSION

We are an ECONOMIC HERESY. A MARKET & sense maker for a post-capitalist future. A volatility SPACE INNOVATION: a SOCIAL DERIVATIVE, a collective risk generating practice, leveraging on our ability to act together on an opening and to collectively enjoy the upside. We are ECONOMIC SPACE AGENTs, a group of radical economists, distributed systems architects, game designers, activists, monetary theorists & content creators deeply passionate about the ECONOMY.

Boundaryless helps global customers with Business Strategy and Organization Design for the age of Ecosystems

We create open-source frameworks for platform design and entrepreneurial organization development: we support a global community of organizations, institutions, and individuals through workshops, training, and consulting services.

Based on work over the last decade within Nairobi’s tech-for-good sector, followed by a year of ethnographic research within organizations in Nairobi’s research landscapes, “Postcolonial Objectivity: Reaching for Decolonial Knowledge Making in Nairobi” traces the contours and edges of what is considered to be good knowledge within an emergent regime of scientific representation in Kenya. I show how this regime, which I call postcolonial objectivity, can be better understood by drawing out how histories haunt the problem space; the idealized figures that shadow the problem space, how rising diversity expectations have played out, and modes of care and stewardship are practiced and idealized. A recurrent argument and goal of postcolonial objectivity is robust contextualization of knowledge. “Postcolonial Objectivity: Reaching for Decolonial Knowledge Making in Nairobi” scales between analyses of the geopolitics of translocal knowledge production and ethnographically rich descriptions of Kenyan histories of imperialism and post-war Development. These geohistories established the knowledge infrastructures that have created conditions where everyday research amongst particular communities in Nairobi are often experienced as extractive, externally-driven, and extroverted for a Western audience. If methodology is a way of being in the world, ultimately, my argument is enacted through my methodological approach of archive ethnography as well as collaborative authorship of the final textual form. In these ways, I demonstrate my own attempts towards postcolonial objectivity, working to build supporting technical infrastructure as an experimental space for collaborative effort to figure out what kinds of questions can be asked under postcolonial objectivity going forward.

Building Laterally: Political Imagination to Support and Sustain Digital Infrastructure is a series of public, virtual events that open conversations inside the Incubator to a larger community. These discussions connect conversations on sustainability, governance, and community health in digital public infrastructure to wider political horizons. Invited panelists draw from their experiences in unionization drives, climate actions, abolition movements, among others. Together these events draw out interdisciplinary resonances and invite participants to make connections to neighborhoods and communities on and off line.

The Museum of British Colonialism is a joint uk/kenyan initiative founded to creatively communicate a more truthful account of British colonialism.

Digital Democracy works in solidarity with marginalized
communities to use technology to defend their rights

Join us in delivering policy and technology tools for private, secure, and confident communications at a global scale.

ISO/AWI 59040
Circular Economy — Product Circularity Data Sheet

Jotta erilaiset teollisuuden, rakentamisen ja purkutoiminnan sivuvirrat saadaan tehokkaasti kiertämään ja synnytettyä tästä kannattavaa liiketoimintaa, tarvitaan tietoa hyödyntämiskelpoisista materiaaleista sekä niiden volyymeista, ominaisuuksista ja sijainnista.

Digitaaliset alustat voivat toimia materiaalien markkinapaikkoina ja edistää markkinoiden syntymistä, uusia tuoteinnovaatioita sekä erilaisten palveluiden käyttöä ja kehittämistä.

We are building standards, ground rules and infrastructure based on European values for a data ecosystem that openly shares data, promoting Europe’s well-being and competitiveness.

Digitalisation will not automatically lead to greater sustainability. Nor is the inclusion of cutting-edge technologies in the circular economy a given.

But with the right encouragement and incentives from the EU, data and digitally-enabled solutions can accelerate and boost the transition to a sustainable circular economy. They can enhance connectivity and information sharing; make business models, products and processes more circular; and empower citizens and consumers to contribute to the transition. They can be used to improve different segments of the circular economy, including design, production, consumption, reuse, repair, remanufacturing, and overall waste management and recycling.

Circular solutions, practices and business models will become the mainstream out of necessity. Join us to keep up with the development!

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Lighthouse: a guide to good data stewardship for trade unions

Welcome to Lighthouse, a purpose-made digital governance maturity test for trade unions.

This is a tool to help your union become more responsible stewards of data. You’ll find a mix of guidance and quiz questions to help you better protect, manage, and harness data.

You can use Lighthouse to help evaluate a data or technology project that your union is currently running. (Although we've written Lighthouse to focus on projects, you could also use it to review your union’s overall data practices.)

The notion of social robots has been bound to science fiction for decades. Now they are reality. Are you ready to start exploring?

 The heart of Mozilla is people. We put people first and do our best to recognize, appreciate and respect the diversity of our global contributors. The Mozilla Project welcomes contributions from everyone who shares our goals and wants to contribute in a healthy and constructive manner within our community. As such, we have adopted this code of conduct and require all those who participate to agree and adhere to these Community Participation Guidelines in order to help us create a safe and positive community experience for all.

Antes dos anos 90 a Internet havia sido criada por um cientista chamado Tim Berners-Lee, em seu começo a internet não possuía muitas páginas e as que existiam eram carregadas de textos, muitas vezes chatos. Nessa época a internet era privilégio para acadêmicos, pesquisadores e cientistas, até que um homem teve a visão de que a Internet um dia poderia ser acessada por todos em qualquer lugar no mundo e que poderíamos usá-la como parte de nossas vidas, com isso Marc Andreessen começou a produzir sua grande ideia. Junto com amigos da faculdade, buscando facilitar o uso com inclusão de fotos, imagens e recursos de áudio e vídeo, em 1993 surge o primeiro navegador da Internet, o Mosaic, que foi distribuído gratuitamente em sua versão beta e logo se tornou febre. Então um homem de nome no vale do silício chamado Jim Clark percebeu que isso seria um grande investimento. Mesmo com o crescimento, nem todo mundo conseguiu ter essa visão e entre estas pessoas estava Bill Gates co-criador da grande e poderosa Microsoft. Então Jim Clark se reuniu com os criadores do Mosaic para firmar um acordo que seria e foi um dos grandes acontecimentos para a Internet. Em 13 de outubro de 1994 surge o navegador Netscape, que se tornaria um grande pesadelo na vida da Microsoft, pois se tornou conhecida mundialmente e uma empresa muito valorizada economicamente. E mesmo a Microsoft possuindo o MSN (Microsoft Network) não era suficiente contra a Natscape. Bill Gates começa a tramar várias formas para acabar com a Natscape de qualquer jeito, mesmo de forma antiética. Em meio a essas tentativas ocorreu uma misteriosa reunião que é contada de várias formas, pela Microsoft sendo como uma reunião simples com uma conversa descontraída e pela Netscape que foi algo tenso com a Microsoft tentando forçá-la a se vender ou sofrer com o poder da Microsoft copiando suas ideias. Tanto que após a reunião a Netscape junto de Gary Reback, advogado muito conhecido por estar por trás de vários processos contra a Microsoft, começam a procurar uma forma de processá-la por Antitruste (É a Lei que se destina a punir práticas anti-competitivas que usam o poder de mercado para restringir a produção e aumentar preços, de modo a não atrair novos competidores ou eliminar a concorrência) mas que inicialmente não deu em nada. Em 1995 a Microsoft acabou batendo a Netscape com a criação do Internet Explorer 4 e sendo uma empresa de grande poder ela poderia distribuir seu novo navegador gratuitamente junto a seu sistema operacional que logo foi aderido por mais de 80% da população deixando a Netscape em grandes problemas financeiros, que no final acabou sendo comprada por outra empresa AOL (América On-line). Por ter saído triunfante, a Microsoft não esperava que fosse levada a mais uma grande batalha. O Governo dos Estados Unidos que deixou de ver Bill Gates como herói e passou a enxergá-lo como um terrorista de alta tecnologia juntamente com várias empresas, em especial a Netscape, em setembro de 1998 leva a Microsoft aos tribunais, acusado-a de infringir as leis de antitruste. A Microsoft acabou sendo condenada e obrigada a ser dividida e a reduzir sua economia em US$ 30 Bilhões de dólares, porém, a justiça alegando que a sentença foi severa demais, voltou atrás em sua decisão.