Open Software is a familiar concept, but Open can and has gone beyond software and is creating miracles and magic all over the world. Can we put a man on the moon, you and me? Can you test cancer for 15 cents? Why would a big corporation unpatent its most popular product? Yes, openness enables us to.

1. Open Beyond Software
Kshitiz Khanal
Kshitiz.org
Open Knowledge Nepal

2. What is Open?
the source materials are freely available for
anyone who wants to re-use and/or modify
them.

3. What can be Open?
Counter question:
What can NOT be OPEN ?

5. Tesla Motors, Hyperloop, and Elon
Musk
Technology leadership is not defined by patents, which history has repeatedly
shown to be small protection indeed against a determined competitor, but
rather by the ability of a company to attract and motivate the world’s most
talented engineers. We believe that applying the open source philosophy to
our patents will strengthen rather than diminish Tesla’s position in this regard.

6. Hyperloop

7. Could we put a
man on the moon
(you and me)?

8. PROJECT BALLOON: CloudLab
PROJECT ROCKET: Chimera
PROJECT CUBESAT: COSMoS

9. A theoretical physicist ahead of time
arXiv.or
gPaulGinsparg, Ph.D.
1991 AD

10. Fairytales and Break-throughs
age 15
paper sensor
pancreatic, ovarian,
and lung cancer
5 minutes
3 cents.
Jack Andraka

13. push-pull train crossing the monumental Wiesener Viaduct
over the Landwasser river [Wiki Loves Monuments]

14. Open Data

15. What’s next?