Welcome to our weekly selection of digital innovation news. Based on our opinionated always changing automated token based selection algorithm we present some top innovation news to get you thinking, debating and collaboration on making our world better.
1 Mårten Mickos on How Open Source Has Changed Our World
Now the question is not who is using open source but who is not using it. Many people may see the benefits of open source from a technological perspective, but open source has had a deeper impact on people, culture, and our society. “One of the greatest benefits of open source is that it has created a model where smart people who disagree with each other can collaborate with each other. Another factor that contributes to the security of open source is the fact that the community is not afraid of talking about its problems. “It also means we know about all the problems in open source. Today, our world is powered by open source. That’s what we’re here on this planet to do.”
2 Bradley M. Kuhn: Software Freedom Ensures the True Software Commons
Software freedom advocates have always admitted that if your primary goal is to make money, proprietary software is a better option. Proprietary software is the ultimate tragedy of the software commons, and while it’s clever rhetoric for our opposition to claim that they can make FLOSS sustainable by proprietarizing it, such an argument is also sophistry. 
Of course, we all want software freedom to exist and survive sustainably. Yet, companies still adopt strategies like this Commons Clause to prioritize rapid growth and revenue that the proprietary software industry expects, claiming these strategies bolster the Commons (even if it is a “partial commons in name only”). Sadly, “commons” has for many years been a compromised term, often used by those who want to promote licenses or organizational models that do not guarantee all four freedoms inherent in software freedom.
3 Apps That Work Natively on the Web and Mobile
NativeScript is an open source framework for building truly native mobile apps with JavaScript. One that would allow you to keep the code for the web and mobile apps in one place. Today we’re happy to announce an exciting new way to build web and mobile apps with Angular and NativeScript.
4 Effectively shifting gears between the different phases of the Innovation Pipeline
Adventurous as the word innovation may sound, an innovation consultant’s job consists for a large part in de-risking the innovation process. In order for innovation to be a viable undertaking for any company, the outcomes of the innovation need to be maximized, while the risk involved needs to be contained as much as possible.
5 AV1 and the Video Wars of 2027
They put banners on their vid-free Facebook feeds, advocating for the liberation of web video from greedy patent holders. It began, slowly at first, to raise licensing fees. AV1 was notable in that it offered better compression, and therefore better video quality, than any other codec of its time.
6 Eclipse Foundation and IBM Partner to Help Fight Natural Disasters in New Global Open Source Software Initiative
OSS developers are encouraged to create solutions that help communities improve disaster preparedness & recovery.
7 A “GPS for inside your body”
Investigating inside the human body often requires cutting open a patient or swallowing long tubes with built-in cameras. The new method can pinpoint the location of ingestible implants inside the body using low-power wireless signals. A key challenge in using wireless signals in this way is the many competing reflections that bounce off a person’s body. “We want a model that’s technically feasible, while still complex enough to accurately represent the human body,” says MIT PhD student Deepak Vasisht, lead author on the new paper. The team says that, one day, similar implants could be used to deliver drugs to specific regions in the body.
8 Improving Strategic Execution With Machine Learning
The marketing function is often an early adopter of machine learning in the enterprise. Having incentives to use machine learning and automate processes is a strong signal that a company is either readying itself or already prepared to compete in digital-first environments. It has less to do with, ‘What are the workplace savings because we have bots?’” For some leading companies, machine learning effectively expands the role of KPIs. Those that continue to fall behind may find the playing field tilted evermore steeply against them. We see parallels with regard to machine learning in the current business landscape. Data-driven decision-making and machine learning all start with data.
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