13. Invention, Intellectual Property, and Income

Final project presentation Page

Aims

So my objective for this week is to understand the root of Intellectual Property and why we need it. After studying surface of it I realized that all of this is based on our economic system. Hence I decided to be a bit critical about it. Since my project target a period of time in the future I first needed to demonstrate how that future economy is going to look like.

What is economy?

If we look to this simply economy is consist of human interactions with an objective. For instance, in the past some people use to grow food and the others making cultivation tools. firs group needed the tools and the second group need food. This simple transaction is the core concept of economy. Today we do this transaction with money as a mediator. All the purpose of this system is to keep the society productive. But this production should be in moderation with the people needs.

Fig-1: Economy cycle: start with production and that production will lead to an income which will follow up with a purchase
Fig-2: The production can be digital or physical and has to lead to an income in any kind to keep the production up running.

What is IP?

According to WTO “Intellectual property rights are the rights given to persons over the creations of their minds. They usually give the creator an exclusive right over the use of his/her creation for a certain period of time.”

Dissemination plan

Agent

My final project is targeting local community of a neighborhood.

Funded

probably at first it needs some sort of governmental or institutional found to impower local community and educate them. After this phase to reach a production a crowd funding from community can push the project further. Later on the community itself can handle the scaling and maintenance of the system.

license

Since this is mostly a community base project there wont be any licensing. However any further development or usage of this project should be publicly available. (It means you can make a business out of it as long as every design and software development publicly accessible for others)

The licenses that I picked for my project are the following:

business plan

  • first phase will be an urban intervention by city council to visualize the food consumption of the neighborhood and estimation of carbon footprint of transporting those to the neighborhood.

  • in the next step, reach out to communities and schools in neighborhood with the educational plan to provoke Nano-farming in the neighborhood. (this step can be done in the shell of fab-education)

  • Adding an additional cost to the product which where imported to the neighborhood and us it source to support the food production.

  • In parallel establishing a platform to connect the citizen-farmers to coordinate the production and sharing the knowledge and data.

  • Inside trading the products between involved people to form an unofficial market.

  • Shouting out! “Farming is not a job, It is a hobby” running an advertising complain to show the advantages of this model.

  • Meanwhile help the third party compony to reproduce tools and supplies for

This project tend to be a framework for the Nano-economical scale.

Class Note

Open design and free software Idea

Open source and economy around it

Ownership

creative commons

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