I gave a presentation at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s CE100 meeting in Berlin – it’s a relatively private event which connects representatives from the different corporations and industrial firms which participate in the network. There are no recordings or publications of talks, so I’m posting my talk here instead. Together with a talk from OSVehicle, it made up the last session of the event, called ‘Embrace Collective Intelligence through Open Source’. There had also been other presentations from OpenDesk, FabLab Berlin and Provenance, so the tech/open scene was well represented. Feel free to use and remix the talk, source files (SVG and ODP) are in the Slides and Illustrations folder, as usual. Hi, my name is Sam, I’m a co-founder of Open It Agency – we help businesses understand and utilize open source. My particular focus is on applying the Open Source idea to new areas outside of software, and for the last few years I have been part of a team building a diverse international network around the Open Source Circular Economy Days – people all around the world who share the goal of a Circular Economy, and believe that Open Source is the best methodology we have to get there. Together we’ve been running events, exchanging knowledge, and building the foundations of an open source circular economy. I’d like to share our perspective with you. Since the industrial revolution we have been steadily accelerating our linear economy. Only recently have we realised that we have to not only slow down, but change direction entirely, and create an economy that might look something like this… It’s a...
