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> From: Cheri Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: UO CIS Colloquium-Thursday, June 8, 2006
> Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 08:46:19 -0700
> Grassroots Innovation: How the 'Open' Movement Does Economic Development
>
> Brandon CS Sanders
> Director, IBESI
>
>
> ABSTRACT
>
> IBESI is a nonprofit organization that is bringing the Open Source ethos to
> job creation. Recognizing that innovation is the engine of prosperity,
> IBESI infrastructure allows ordinary folks to band together and execute R&D
> that helps "small and local" compete with "large and global".
>
> 1. Collaborative filtering bubbles the best ideas to the surface and acts
> as a demand indicator. This enables a large group to quickly form around an
> idea that many people like.
> 2. As a large group forms, individuals can pledge small amounts of cash
> that aggregate to form a large pool sufficient to bankroll the solution.
> This greatly distributes early stage risk, enabling folks who don't have
> deep pockets to direct innovation.
> 3. Finally, the group must decide how to use the pooled resources to
> accomplish their shared aim. Consensus polling makes it easy for a large
> group of diverse individuals to efficiently create a plan that they can all
> agree on.
> 4. Each of these core features is built upon an underlying foundation of
> easy "content creation and sharing".
>
> In partnership with the Oregon Economic & Community Development Department
> and other non academic partners IBESI is in the process of establishing
> collaborative partnerships with Oregon university computer science
> departments. The technical portion of the talk will be followed by an
> interactive "park bench" discussion of leading edge automation elements
> where the U of O could add value, and the implications of grassroots
> innovation.
>
> Biography
> Dr. Brandon CS Sanders is the technical director for IBESI, a nonprofit
> organization that is bringing the Open Source ethos to job creation. A
> self-proclaimed "collaboration enthusiast", Brandon's special passion and
> expertise is designing and deploying online collaboration tools that help
> large groups of diverse individuals quickly make creative decisions that
> everyone involved feels good about. While with IBESI, Brandon has been
> designing the "Open Innovation Economic Development Infrastructure"
> (OIEDI). The OIEDI employs "leading edge" software automation to gain
> radically new process dynamics that stimulate innovation and economic
> development.
>
> Prior to joining IBESI, Brandon received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from
> the University of Rochester for his dissertation in Computer Vision
> entitled "A Theory of Quasi-Static Object Discovery."
>
>
> DATE: THURSDAY, June 8, 2006
> TIME: 3:30 p.m. talk, refreshments following talk
> PLACE: 220 Deschutes Hall (Colloquium Room), University of Oregon
>
> For all CIS public talks, go to:
> http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/activities/talks/
>
>
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> Cheri Smith
> Undergraduate Coordinator
> Computer & Information Science
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Phone: (541) 346-1376, Fax: (541) 346-5373
>
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> 1202 University of Oregon
> Eugene, OR 97403-1202
>
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