num_pages: 215
description: What the world lacks right nowespecially the United States where every form of organization from government to banks to labor unions has betrayed the public trustis integrity. Also lacking is public intelligence in the sense of knowing what one needs to know in order to make honest decisions for the good of all rather than corrupt decisions for the good of the few. The Open-Source Everything Manifesto is a distillation of author strategist analyst and reformer Robert David Steele life's the transition from top-down secret command and control to a world of bottom-up consensual collective decision-making as a means to solve the major crises facing our world today. The book is intended to be a catalyst for citizen dialog and deliberation and for inspiring the continued evolution of a nation in which all citizens realize our shared aspiration of direct democracyinformed participatory democracy. Open-Source Everything is a cultural and philosophical concept that is essential to creating a prosperous world at peace a world that works for one hundred percent of humanity. The future of intelligence is not secret not federal and not expensive. It is about transparency truth and trust among our local to global collective. Only open is scalable.As we strive to recover from the closed world corruption and secrecy that has enabled massive fraud within governments banks corporations and even non-profits and universities this timely book is a manifesto for liberationnot just open technology but open everything.
language: English
title: The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust
publisher: EVOLVER EDITIONS