Digital Common Sense

An interesting comment from Sri on a post of a few days ago led me to Technology Initiatives for Peace

In the last 100 years, much of technology has been spawned to serve the cause of war - aircraft, radar, laser, even the Internet.

Now the tide is turning - initiatives like Google, Blogger, MeetUp, CraigsList, Freecycle and Friendster are serving to bring people together, to make information open and transparent. Open source projects have taken firm hold. Examples like Linux, Apache, Python, Firefox are changing not only how software is developed, the economics of software development and distribution, but even how governments and corporations are adopting such open source technologies.

I read it all. You should too. I linked a couple pf the references for more reading and investigation when I have a bit of free time. Wanted to post it here for those of you who may not have seen these but will be interested as well.

Filed by Ken at 11:03 am under Technology