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March 2013
Foresight Engine Game Analysis:
25 Zones of
Future Innovation
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Low-cost technology, intelligible
instructions, and access to a community of
makers will allow people in any part of the
world to build the things they need, propping
up local industries and livelihoods. Open
source licenses remove many barriers to
getting started and ensure an ongoing
collaborative evolution of tools and
technologies.
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Catalysts for Change players imagined the potential to sell large machinery
in maker kits—along with training on how to build them—blending the IKEA model
with the maker paradigm, while adding some capacity-building into the mix.
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6 | Open Source Development Kits | From the Players
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6 | Open Source Development Kits | Micro-forecasts from the Game
Machinery imported into
developing countries should
be provided in kit form along
with training on construction to
develop local industry*
England**
*Cards have been lightly edited for readability
**Player location was self selected

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Open Source poverty
alleviation methods.
Transparent funding,
community involvement in
actions, re-usable and
modifiable results #TOreily
Ghana
6 | Open Source Development Kits | Micro-forecasts from the Game
Machinery imported into
developing countries should
be provided in kit form along
with training on construction
to develop local industry
England

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Yes! Modular, cheap materials,
combined with open-source
instructions (think
our.windowfarms.org/groups/).
USA
6 | Open Source Development Kits | Micro-forecasts from the Game
Machinery imported into
developing countries should
be provided in kit form along
with training on construction
to develop local industry
England
Open Source poverty
alleviation methods.
Transparent funding,
community involvement in
actions, re-usable and
modifiable results #TOreily
Ghana

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When a product is
discontinued, the company
that made it should release its
hardware and software as
open source.
Mexico
6 | Open Source Development Kits | Micro-forecasts from the Game
Machinery imported into
developing countries should
be provided in kit form along
with training on construction
to develop local industry
England
Open Source poverty
alleviation methods.
Transparent funding,
community involvement in
actions, re-usable and
modifiable results #TOreily
Ghana
Yes! Modular, cheap
materials, combined with
open-source instructions
(think
our.windowfarms.org/groups/)
.
USA

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Open source, low-cost, high
performance technological
platform that allows for the
easy, DIY fabrication of the
farming equipment.
USA
6 | Open Source Development Kits | Micro-forecasts from the Game
Machinery imported into
developing countries should
be provided in kit form along
with training on construction
to develop local industry
England
Open Source poverty
alleviation methods.
Transparent funding,
community involvement in
actions, re-usable and
modifiable results #TOreily
Ghana
Yes! Modular, cheap
materials, combined with
open-source instructions
(think
our.windowfarms.org/groups/)
.
USA
When a product is
discontinued, the company
that made it should release its
hardware and software as
open source.
Mexico

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6 | Open Source Development Kits | Micro-forecasts from the Game
Machinery imported into
developing countries should
be provided in kit form along
with training on construction
to develop local industry
England
Open Source poverty
alleviation methods.
Transparent funding,
community involvement in
actions, re-usable and
modifiable results #TOreily
Ghana
Yes! Modular, cheap
materials, combined with
open-source instructions
(think
our.windowfarms.org/groups/)
.
USA
When a product is
discontinued, the company
that made it should release its
hardware and software as
open source.
Mexico
Open source, low-cost, high
performance technological
platform that allows for the
easy, DIY fabrication of the
farming equipment.
USA

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Signals from the Present
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Open Source Ecology has designed a
Global Village Construction Set that
contains tools and instructions to build
basic machinery commonly used
when creating new settlements. They
plan to create kits for the 50 most
useful industrial machines.
Appropedia
Appropedia is an open wiki set up to collect
“collaborative solutions in sustainability,
poverty reduction and international
development through the use of
sound principles and appropriate
technology and the sharing of wisdom and
project information.”
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Global Village Construction Set
Image Source: www.appropedia.orgImage Source:
www.opensourceecology.org/wiki/MIT_Innovations_Journal

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ict@innovation, run by the Free
Software and Open Source
Foundation for Africa, is promoting
business and learning opportunities
with free and open source software
throughout Africa.
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ict@innovation
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A project by Institute for the Future and The Rockefeller Foundation
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March 2013
Foresight Engine Game Analysis:
25 Zones of
Future Innovation
© 2013 Institute for the Future for Rockefeller Foundation. All rights reserved. SR-1563B
A project by Institute for the Future and The Rockefeller Foundation
www.iftf.org/our-work/global-landscape/catalysts-for-change/catalysts-zones-of-innovation
Contact: Tessa Finlev, tfinlev@iftf.org