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Node

A node is a place where part of the connections of a network, in turn made up of nodes, converge, which are interrelated in a centralized, decentralized or distributed way. At Oigo, part of our objective is to decentralize to the maximum both the management and the administration of the collective financing model that we promote, and therefore we are preparing the scalability of the platform so that it works autonomously by local or thematic interest groups and institutions. More information.

Open Data

Open data (open data in English) is a philosophy and practice that seeks to make certain data freely available to everyone, without copyright restrictions, patents or other control mechanisms.

It has an ethic similar to other open movements and communities such as open source and open access.

To the extent that data (especially public ones) are published with quality and in machine-readable formats, the task is facilitated for third parties to transform them by adding value, in the form of applications (web, mobile), summaries or reports. More information in Wikipedia.

Open Hardware

Open hardware is hardware whose design is publicly available. Anyone can study, modify, distribute, fabricate it or sell designs or more hardware based on the original.

Its source code is available, and its components, tools and documentation are, ideally, open, and its processes standardised. This is a definition based on the one provided by the Open Hardware Summit. More information in Wikipedia.

Open Source

Open source (compared to closed models) facilitates replication, reuse, recontextualization, remixing, in different networked communities; allows viral action and the production of derivatives of the original for their adaptation and exponential improvement (thanks to distributed collaboration); exemplifies and makes operational accessibility and collaboration around a common project. More information in Wikipedia.

Peer-to-peer (P2P)

Peer-to-peer (P2P) file exchange networks go far beyond the nowadays predominant use of this technology in music and film exchange. Their essence is premised on shared power and distributed access to resources, a participatory design of social processes in which no-one is excluded. Thus, all indications point to a not too distant future when exporting the P2P model to non-digital spaces could become the central logic of our society.

While we remain in an immaterial, cultural, knowledge realm, in which anything can be copied at no cost, anybody in any part of the world can voluntarily aggregate their work since, in essence, current technology reduces coordination, transaction and communication overheads.

P2P is not just a descriptive concept. It allows the analysis of new forms of organisation, and imagining the effects of their possible generalised or normative use. As the world changes, as my life changes, my ethics change when I start demanding a peer relationship in all my actions. This is when P2P acquires a true potential for change. More information in Wikipedia.