Fab Lab work

Neil Gershenfeld -
Center for Bit's and Atom's (MIT - in the MIT dialect:)
"...An alarm clock you can wrestle with to prove you are awake."

pod-cast:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5008294

the center:
http://cba.mit.edu/projects/fablab/

for 25k you get:
http://cba.mit.edu/projects/fablab/tools.html

and can build things like:
http://cba.mit.edu/projects/fablab/apps.html

with workflow tutorials:
http://cba.mit.edu/projects/fablab/workflow.html
<http://cba.mit.edu/projects/fablab/docs/antenna_workflow.html>Making a Parabolic Antenna
<http://cba.mit.edu/projects/fablab/docs/buttons_workflow.html>Making Buttons
<http://cba.mit.edu/projects/fablab/docs/controller_workflow.html>Making an Antenna Controller

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Manufacture in a remote setting
reduce the threshold for invention
Open (NSF support) FabLab (steam turbines/Rural Telcom/...) Small hi-tech consumables (subtractive tools). rest are locally available materials.

Description of 20 year fabricator project - the outreach part exploded - 25k setup for a FabLab (not a "printing 3d object - only works in non-functional materials - "printing a thesis that gets up and walks off the printer":)

Ribosome (i.e. cellular) using threshold theorems which are molecular fabricators - making perfect things from imperfect parts. "Think about it to .." "...i wouldn't put too much effort in reading your mind ...") - programmability of the digital world out into the physical world.

the FabLab's are leapfrogging the the 20 year thing.

The minicomputer analogy (as dec is to sony; FabLab is to the 20 year thing).

"Overwhelming Passion to ...." spinning off microVC fab fund. Development organizations around the world to participate ....

"...the other 5.5 billion brains on the planet become part of the ..."

the secret of life is that is "to compute is to build" at the ...

"...the FabLabs are morphing/evolving into the 20 year vision ..."

"...download designs locally - collaboration on effective large designs ..."

"...Replicators - Digital Frabrication (today) --> "computeToBuild" (feed stock of engineered materials - that come together at the molecular level (too expensive in energy to do sub molecular constructions - only VERY special cases)..."

Re: Fw: Global Movement Mgmt ...open.gov..pilot? (attachment!)

Stan,

do you know the relation of this IBM document (GMM) and the WCO Security Framework? In particular, is this IBM's stake in the ground as a uniform response to the WCO?

jt.

IBM Global Movement Management Framework:
http://www.opencommons.net/documents/GMM.pdf

World Customs Organization's Framework of Standards to Secure and Facilitate Global Trade:
http://www.opencommons.net/documents/wco_framework.pdf

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A few quotes from each of the doucments...
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W:
International trade is an essential driver for economic prosperity. The global trading
system is vulnerable to terrorist exploitation that would severely damage the entire global
economy. As government organizations that control and administer the international
movement of goods, Customs administrations are in a unique position to provide increased
security to the global supply chain and to contribute to socio-economic development
through revenue collection and trade facilitation.

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W:
International trade is an essential driver for economic prosperity. The global trading
system is vulnerable to terrorist exploitation that would severely damage the entire global
economy. As government organizations that control and administer the international
movement of goods, Customs administrations are in a unique position to provide increased
security to the global supply chain and to contribute to socio-economic development
through revenue collection and trade facilitation.

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W:
The WCO Framework rests on the twin pillars of Customs-to-Customs
network arrangements and Customs-to-Business partnerships.
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I:
A Global Movement Management framework enables the system to overcome these challenges
through its two most important elements: a governance structure and a system architecture.
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W:
This Framework provides a new and consolidated platform which will enhance world
trade, ensure better security against terrorism, and increase the contribution of Customs
and trade partners to the economic and social well-being of nations.
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I:
Ultimately, security and resilience need to become embedded into
these broader system imperatives, creating a culture of .Total Security Management,. in a
manner similar to the drive for .Total Quality Management. in manufacturing,
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I:
Several existing frameworks
and policies are applicable to cross-border transfers of personally-identifiable information,3 and
need to be reconciled with the new security imperatives of the system.
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I:
The GMM system is intended to overcome the consequences
of these disparate interests, and create a framework that aligns the interests of stakeholders and
supports optimal participation by each country while allowing different policy choices.
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I:
This imbalance of information between
private sector domain knowledge and public sector threat-related knowledge means that no
single party has the ability to operate solely on its own, and it creates uncertainty
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I:
propose a governance structure
and system architecture that can enhance security and resilience in the entire system: a
framework of Global Movement Management.