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 Social launchpad
Through experimentation with emerging technologies WeOU challenges social constructions like money, energy, hierarchy and ownership to discover a more sustainable society. With projects on Energy Collective, food technology and transparency in the supply chain behind the food.
( weOU)
2 Alan: The Low Code Platform
Alan is a low code platform that enables the rapid development of data centric applications. Instead of the traditional relational database + 3GL or 4GL language, the core of Alan is a data modelling language that automatically generates full stack applications. Alan can be used to generate database instructions and a user interface. You can go from empty template to a cloud-hosted web application before your coffee gets cold. Alan is also powerful when interfacing with legacy systems. It can serve as the target system, or as gateway between systems; ensuring data consistency before feeding it into the end point. Unfortunate the core of Alan in not (yet?!) OSS.
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3 Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network Community
Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network Community. Microsoft’s participation in OIN will drive additional innovation and enhance patent non-aggression in Linux and adjacent OSS technologies.
“Open source development continues to expand into new products and markets to create unrivaled levels of innovation. Through its participation in OIN, Microsoft is explicitly acknowledging the importance of open source software to its future growth,” said Keith Bergelt, CEO of Open Invention Network. “Microsoft’s participation in OIN adds to our strong community, which through its breadth and depth has reduced patent risk in core technologies, and unequivocally signals for all companies who are using OSS but have yet to join OIN that the litmus test for authentic behavior in the OSS community includes OIN participation.”
“Microsoft sees open source as a key innovation engine, and for the past several years we have increased our involvement in, and contributions to, the open source community,” said Erich Andersen, Corporate Vice President and Chief IP Counsel, Microsoft. “
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4 Mesa: Agent-based modeling in Python
Mesa is an Apache2 licensed agent-based modeling (or ABM) framework in Python. It allows users to quickly create agent-based models using built-in core components (such as spatial grids and agent schedulers) or customized implementations; visualize them using a browser-based interface; and analyze their results using Python’s data analysis tools. Its goal is to be the Python 3-based alternative to NetLogo, Repast, or MASON.
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5 NVIDIA Introduces RAPIDS Open-Source GPU-Acceleration Platform for Large-Scale Data Analytics and Machine Learning
GTC Europe—NVIDIA today announced a GPU-acceleration platform for data science and machine learning, with broad adoption from industry leaders, that enables even the largest companies to analyze massive amounts of data and make accurate business predictions at unprecedented speed.
RAPIDS™ open-source software gives data scientists a giant performance boost as they address highly complex business challenges, such as predicting credit card fraud, forecasting retail inventory and understanding customer buying behavior. Reflecting the growing consensus about the GPU’s importance in data analytics, an array of companies is supporting RAPIDS — from pioneers in the open-source community, such as Databricks and Anaconda, to tech leaders like Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM and Oracle.
6 Toward no longer running naked through the digital world
Privacy plays in all of these, because we don’t have it yet in the digital world. And that’s the challenge: to equip ourselves to live private and safe lives, and not just public and endangered ones, in our new virtual world. Re- Engineering](https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/engineers-vs-re-engineering) (my August editorial in Linux Journal ). Some of us have taken up that challenge too: with ProjectVRM, with Customer Commons, and with allied efforts listed here. Being at the Anne L. Bernstein Theater on West 50th, it’s my off-Broadway debut.
7 What Managers Can Gain From Anonymous Chats
Anonymous chat apps are quickly picking up steam in the workplace, providing employees with a platform to discuss concerns and complaints, offer advice, and provide unfiltered feedback in novel ways. Instead, managers must look for ways to use them effectively — by making them part of an ecosystem that values relationships, open communication, and employee feedback in all its forms. But as a manager myself, I’ve found that there is a time and place for collecting anonymous feedback from my staff. These technologies can be helpful to managers — but you wouldn’t think so from much of the press surrounding them. For gathering anonymous workplace feedback, I use an employee engagement tool called TINYPulse.
8 Trust as a mechanism of system justification
Results show that higher income individuals trust other higher income individuals more than lower income individuals (ingroup favoritism), while lower income individuals trust higher income individuals more than lower income individuals (outgroup favoritism). It is also shown that the strength of these biases is dependent on the level of endorsement of system justifying ideology and the legitimacy of the system. More trust toward those in advantaged positions within a social system, expressed both by equally advantaged as well as by disadvantaged others, not only secures the advantaged in their positions but also reinforces the underlying inequality.
In a series of three experiments using the trust game I manipulate income inequality by providing participants with higher (advantaged position) or lower (disadvantaged position) initial endowments and measure their trust toward individuals on the same or on different positions. This paper examines how this system-justifying motivation is reflected in behaviors involving interpersonal trust.
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9 Governments as Facilitators of Value Creation
There is, however, a third role: governments as facilitators of value creation. And governments can do all this without picking winners and losers, the traditional free-market ideologue’s objection to any government involvement in the marketplace. There are many examples of governments acting as facilitators throughout history. But many see themselves as facilitators of value creation. By facilitators, we mean that governments can enact policies that enable businesses to better create value in terms of both efficiency and effectiveness. Governments can invest in infrastructure that improves conditions for businesses to create value and develop innovative business ideas.
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