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Patricio Buenrostro-Gilhuys

Copying the internet

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Copying the internet


How can we make food and water available for everyone in this planet?

This is how: Building a Global Network of Community Urban Farms using the internet as a model.

The internet is a Distributed Network. This means it´s a network with far more resilience than our
centralized networks.


You can see centralized networks in the way we currently distribute water, food, energy among other things.
This centralized networks are very vulnerable to any kind of disaster. For example:

This images simulates what would happen in case of a nuclear attack.

If in a centralized network the main node doesn´t work like let´s say a hydroelectric plant or a
water treatment facility then the entire network collapses.
We have seen this happen in the Evoke Missions. Food, energy, water and even banks
are all centralized systems, when the main node collapses, the entire network collapses.

Think different

The internet is different because it´s a Distributed Network ("Red Distribuida" in the diagram). If a section is not
working due to an emergency the rest of the network is still working and can help to reconstruct the damaged
node. A Community Urban Farms is a node inside a larger Global Network of Community Urban Farms


Now it´s time to build a Global Network of Community Urban Farms that will bring Water Food

and Energy FOR EVERYONE IN THIS PLANET.




We can start with the biggest cities in the World.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/08/urban.planet.megacities/inde...

This cities have a great cultural influence over their own countries, their regions and the World. With only 14 farms we can impact a little bit more than 9% of the World Population. Other culturally can be included too. In the long term the plan is to have a Community Urban Farm on every block in every City in the World. It may take decades, but we can do it all through incremental steps.


At the beginning this Global Network of Community Urban Farms will resemble more a decentralized network, but with more farms it will eventually will resemble a Distributed Network.


Health and Education


To a certain degree Health and Education can also be part of this Global Network of Community Urban Farms, especially in places where Health and Education infrastructure is not enough. The health can focus on preventive medicine and first aid. Education should also be part of the project. Teaching science with what is grown and built in this Global Network of Community Urban Farms is a unique opportunity to make science fun and real. The Arts and sports can become part of the community live. A place for old and young to learn from each other and create community a global community that feels local.


Empowering Woman


Watch this video: http://www.girleffect.org/ It´s clear to me that if Women are the Facilitators of this Community Urban Farms they will do a far better job than we men do. It´s not about reverse discrimination it´s science proving they are better Community Builders.


Questions

I have some questions for you:

Could we integrate other projects and combine it with this System of Distributed Networks? What about Human Rights? Money or any substitute of it? Any ideas? I´ve seen some great ideas in Evoke and I would love to incorporate them and mix them . . . share with us your ideas!!!

The name Global Network of Community Urban Farms is descriptive but too long maybe? I am thinking

GLOCAL FARMS or GLOCAL URBAN FARMS sounds better . . . Can you think of a cool name?

How can we integrate play into it? If we are gonna change the World it should be a Fun World.


Agent Patricio.



* "The pioneering research of Paul Baran in the 1960s, who envisioned a communications network that would survive a major enemy attacked. The sketch shows three different network topologies described in his RAND Memorandum, "On Distributed Communications: 1. Introduction to Distributed Communications Network"(August 1964). The distributed network structure offered the best survivability. "On Distributed Communications: 1. Introduction to Distributed Comm... " From:Ahttp://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeography/...ugust 1964). The distributed network structure offered the best survivability.

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Tags: Act1., Collaboration, Community, Distributed, Energy, Food, HumanRights, Internet., Network, Water

A.V.Koshy Comment by A.V.Koshy on April 11, 2010 at 10:50pm
what we're dealing with here is social innovation, entrepreneurship, food, water, power/energy, empowering women, human rights, poverty, pandemic, crisis, health, education, employment and last but not least the future of money
so can we have on that is like your second graphic but a distributed network that includes all these points?
how did i get that list?
evoke talks of it - in different places.
Joshua Z Comment by Joshua Z on April 11, 2010 at 11:03pm
An excellent post illustrating the possibility of a distribution network acting in an almost physiological, biological manner!

This one is going into my Development to-do inbox!
Patricio Buenrostro-Gilhuys Comment by Patricio Buenrostro-Gilhuys on April 11, 2010 at 11:05pm
@ A.V. Koshy: Great thinking!!! Let´s incorporate ALL EVOKE ISSUES. Health is the one that I find more difficult to incorporate. Already I consider that the focus can be on preventive medicine and first aid. But surgeries and all that need larger infrastructure. Perhaps we could aspire not for a distributed network for health but at least for a decentralized network for health.
A.V.Koshy Comment by A.V.Koshy on April 11, 2010 at 11:17pm
decentralized is fine and preventive is fine....at present i don't see how we can do more.
Suggestion for name: Wh*** Earth People's Community for Fundamental Rights and Basic Needs.
Patricio Buenrostro-Gilhuys Comment by Patricio Buenrostro-Gilhuys on April 11, 2010 at 11:21pm
@Joshua Exactly!!! I first got curious about rhizomes (a Distributed Network) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome after reading A thousand plateaus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Thousand_Plateaus and got very curious of how biological models can be implemented on social structures. I am using the internet example here but If I need to explain this to farmers I use grass (a Distributed Network) as an example. As far as I understand the the brain is a Distributed Network too right? I see neurons as nodes and complexity arises from it. You might find this interesting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB5_L4T68kM&feature=PlayList&...
Patricio Buenrostro-Gilhuys Comment by Patricio Buenrostro-Gilhuys on April 11, 2010 at 11:25pm
@Joshua: Ups this is the video I was thinking of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zj5vdkJ-1M
@A.V. : I think simple names are more effective, but I can see how we are on the same page of what this Network is about.
Joshua Z Comment by Joshua Z on April 12, 2010 at 1:47am
Thank you, thank you Patricio! These are some very powerful ideas, as tools for real application.

Great links -- bookmarking for inclusion in current work.
Patricio Buenrostro-Gilhuys Comment by Patricio Buenrostro-Gilhuys on April 12, 2010 at 2:34am
@ Joshua it would be very interesting to know more about the research you are doing, I´m very curious.
Nicholas Nagao Comment by Nicholas Nagao on April 12, 2010 at 3:49am
Great post Patricio. I'm going to give this some more thought.
Julio Cesar Corona Ortega Comment by Julio Cesar Corona Ortega on April 13, 2010 at 8:44am
Very nice project Patricio. How about "Local World Farms"? Or for the more Sci-Fi oriented, "Planetary Harvesting". Maybe "Nurturenet"?

At any rate, I think implementing play to make it fun is a great idea. That would require some form of organization between farms all over the world, however. Right now I am thinking a free hosting site would be the way to go. This hosting site, however, would be different in the sense that it would include tools that local urban farmers can use to upload their harvest, produce, sales and operation costs data, with an A.I. script scrutinizing it and giving them a real-time analysis of their metrics and how they compare both to other local urban farmers and the rest of the world.

From here, the script could autoselect not only who is doing best, but more importantly, who is improving the most - both locally, by country and worldwide. Those who are doing the best could get more average awards, such as vacation trips, being featured on the website, press coverage, etc. Those who are improving the most, however, will tend to be the smaller and younger urban farms, so their awards could consist of grants, scholarships, free seeds/supplies, etc. If the project takes off, it would not be too hard to get funding from private foundations and government institutions.

Speaking of the website for his network of farmers. Having it also provide them with localized information on crops, seeds and planting methods through Ursula Kochanowski's database idea would be great and extremely helpful.

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