Mark Charmer

40 points

London

Mark is a co-founder and the communications director of akvo.org. Based in London, he has 20 years experience helping people describe new ideas, technologies and approaches. He has a Masters degree in Design Studies from Central St Martins College of Art, and a Bachelors in Managerial and Administrative studies, from Aston University.

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2015: The year the UN resets the count

Working at the bleeding edge of global development is about to get more lively. Akvo.org co-founder Mark Charmer argues the world needs the open source movement to assert…

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charmermark

27 Jan 2015

2015: The year the UN resets the count

Thanks Joshua. I agree completely. If a core set of open source systems components - infrastructure building blocks, so to speak - could be brought out into the open and then everyone makes sense of how to rapidly adopt and / or improve on them, we'd suddenly be in very interesting territory. Do please share anything you come across. I'm aware of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Ecology on this front. Mark