Although the horizon for the transgression of these barriers is starting to become visible, it is not imminent: today, it is necessary to plan and effectuate transitional and applicable solutions. Since, the access to renewable sources as well as the spatial distribution of human activity is subject to geographical differentiations, we will have to keep an open mind to any technology or mixtures of technologies that can efficiently utilise local wealth and local social conditions. This article by George Papanikolaou appeared in a special issue of the Greek bi-lingual Re-Public magazine, Issue on P2P Energy, 2009

It was a great discussion that brought together a mix of people from different disciplines interested in open data and transparency's capacity to make aid more effective. Build a community of developers interested in leveraging development data, similar to what Sunlight Labs has been able to do around open data for the US federal government. Develop a focused pilot that maps projects and activities Thanks to everyone who participated in the Aid Information Challenge on Friday at the Word Bank. Thanks again to the World Bank for hosting, and to the Development Gateway for

This is an interesting piece of open source software produced by Alexandre Dulaunoy who can be reached at (a at foo dot be). Forban is a kind of p2p application for link-local and local area networks. Forban works independently from the Internet and uses only local area capabilities to announce, discover, search or share files. Forban relies on HTTP and it is opportunistic (meaning replicating any files seen in its proximity or interest).