Open business

October 22, 2011

 

Open business represents a concept of doing business in a transparent way by intimately integrating an ecosystem of participants, collaborating in public space.

Open business structures make contributors and non-contributors visible such that the business benefits are distributed accordingly.

They activate personal engagement and productivity by benefiting the contributors and producers that they can live from it and helping the clients to reduce their costs.

Main ideas

 

• Open learning/sharing — a fundamental tenet is open collaboration at all levels in all locations
• Open participation — open invitation to join the organization (similar to SourceForge, Blender community, where individual/team input within the community framework [for special services, consulting, training, adaptions, courses, camps, symposiums, books] can help to build individual income)
• Individual rights — each person is supported and encouraged to identify and optimise their personal development, i.e. technical, personal, spiritual, etc.
• Community focus — productivity activities are seen as part of a range of normal human activities e.g. family life, community life, religious commitments, etc.
• Institution free — the organization is not based on any existing institution - state, religious or otherwise. Members can hold whatever views or affiliations they like.
• Open knowledge — the free exchange of knowledge by making use -as much as possible- of open standards, open source and open content principles.
• Open member details — including open access to the contact details of all other members in a convenient form (i.e. once the range and depth of those details have been approved for release by that particular member)
• Open financials — all accounting information including the compensation of others

 

 

  

Evolution

October 5, 2011

Evolution (or more specifically biological or organic evolution) is the change over time in one or more inherited traits found in populations of individuals.^[1] Inherited traits are distinguishing characteristics, for example anatomical, biochemical or behavioural, that are passed on from one generation to the next. Evolution requiresvariation of inherited traits within a population. New variants of inherited traits can enter a population from outside populations, and this is referred to as gene flow.^[2][3][4][5] Alternatively, new variants can come into being from within a population in at least three ways: mutation of DNA, epimutation (a change inherited in some way other than through the sequence of nucleotides in DNA), and genetic recombination. Natural selection, where different inherited traits cause different rates of survival and reproduction, can cause new variants to become common in a population.^[1] Other evolutionary mechanisms can cause a variant to become common even if the variant does not directly cause improved survival or reproduction. These mechanisms include genetic hitchhiking, genetic drift,^[6][7] and recurrent biased mutation or migration.

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