Tsikbal: from my perspective

There is a need to make technology more inclusive, not only to be used, but also in its creation, development and adaptation for different needs. If people can't have ample access to technology to do all of these things, no matter how useful or innovative at the beginning, it'll soon be obsolete or irrelevant. If any technology is made so as much people can do more than just work with it, chances are the technology will reach its full potential. And it's more than likely than that potential is far beyond anyone can foresee. To take technology there, it needs to let everyone in and let them modify it or add to it openly. Closing it to the general public is the best way to ensure a short life for it. Inclusive technology is the best way to make out present, while at the same time ensuring our future. Technology gives us the best tools to do both, and the best way to do so is to have technology that is work on and developed in an open and transparent manner. Peopl...

Another of the reasons that I love FLOSS is the way it works, and the culture that surrounds it, is the fact it allows people work and form communities around it as they would normally do. The best software that come out from FLOSS is one where people can claim as their own, and work on it as they can. In many ways, FLOSS represents people working together in order to produce what they need in they way that best suits them. It really it's the software of the people, for the people and by the people. This is the way software needs to be made, and worked on in order to make it the best possible for use it's intended. People should be able to come together to work on the software they need, to develop it and share it with others freely. Others should also be able to take the source code of any software to be used and modified to suit their needs, with the only condition that they give credit to the original developers and share those modifications back to the community so...

All and every technology should be open sourced, free to be modified by users to better suit their needs and redistributed. What's more, those new modifications need to be easily redistributed to others that find it appealing to their needs. The need to have technology behave this way, is because we need to have the benefits of it to be as widespread as possible. There are far too many cases where the technology to save lives, or communities, existed but couldn't be used to do so because it was to expensive or there was no way to put it to work because it wasn't in the interest of who owned the technology. Technology can't be captive by the interests of the few, and it's more powerful to improve people lives when it's freely available to be worked and redistributed without barriers that impede users to do so in an artificial way do to vested interest in avoiding it. We could be progressing a lot faster if all technology was open to all to study and ...

As with the Internet, software running on your computer should be made in a transparent way and its source code should be available to studied and modified as needed. Not only that, the author of the modifications made to the source code should be able to distribute those modifications freely, along with the source code for it. Also, you should have the freedom to redistribute the software you have freely or share it with others. Just as we share books, and other media, with our friends and family, we should be able to share the software we have with others that might find it useful. And if you find that the software you have needs to be modified to better suit your needs, you should be able to do so independently and be able to share those modifications. FLOSS offers everyone these things, along with communities that share the same goals that you have. Not only that, FLOSS gives people a common framework to work around so that all work around a single standard. This way u...

It's sad to see that now the UN is on the road to try to take control over the Internet. Instead to let the Internet to grow organically, in an open and transparent way in every aspect, it seem that there are special interests groups that want to take Internet behind closed doors. The Internet belongs to the people, all development that affects its inner workings is to be made on the open. Those working on the Internet, whether on its inner workings or developing its standards, should work on a transparent way so that we all know what they are doing and how their contributions work. Not a single part of how the Internet works, or how it's developed, should ever be behind closed door. All activity should be on the open, so that any interested party on a certain aspect of the Internet, can have full access to it and the rest of us to know what that party is doing. Any attempt to take the Internet's control behind closed door, should be opposed by everyone as a qu...

It's sad to see that technology advances faster on times of war, than it does in times of peace. There is a urgent need to change it so the reverse becomes the norm, so that peace time becomes where science and technology advances faster. Not only that, we need to have the benefits from new scientific discoveries, and the technologies that develop from them, get to a larger part of society faster. There must be a way to make peace the norm, by making war at any level undesirable. All conflicts need to be resolved without relying to violence, and people's needs are to be meet as they come. We need to make it so that conflicts that drive the advancement of science and technology, don't result on violence that ends in bloodshed. Science and technology need to be instruments of peace and understanding, not those of war and violence. If wars and violence are common place, it many ways society at large has failed to do what's needed to keep peace. Science, an...

I would like to see science research and technology development being something that brings the world together. Instead of being done in secret, by single individuals, corporations, or countries, they should be conducted in collaboration by anyone interested in the subject. Not only that, it should be done in the open in full view of the world. The education to be able to conduct science research, or technology development, should be given as a priority at any stage of life. Most importantly, people should graduate from basic education with the ability to at least understand the basis science and how it's applied on the technology we use everyday. Even if end goal of an individual isn't getting a degree on a science or engineering area in college, they should have a functional understanding of science. The same goes the other way around, every part of the human knowledge important. In the science and technology areas, it's becoming ever more important not o...