presentation given at South Tyrol Free Software Conference on November 18, 2011. It explores how the new world of abundance creates and requires new kinds of open, digital innovation. It also looks at some of the possible business models for companies based around open data.

4. video tapes to DVDs

6. once in a *civilisation*

8. most evident in the realm of content – music, film, text

9. but also touches science, business and government

10. brings need to move from approaches based on scarcity to those based on abundance

12. today: €50 USB memory stick, capacity 32 Gbytes, stores 5,000 songs

15. selective updates via Internet

16. everyone with a smartphone can collaborate as equal

17. innovation becomes democratised and hyperconnected

19. top-down

20. collaboration hard

23. bottom-up

24. collaboration easy

26. its birth and characteristics can be observed in the story of GNU/Linux

28. GNU is ”GNU's Not Unix” - a recursive acronym

29. one man's attempt to create a free version of the leading Unix operating system

30. singular vision

32. in March 1991, 21-year-old student Linus Torvalds started writing one ”just for fun” – in his Helsinki bedroom

33. key inflection was August 1991, when he opened up his ”Linux” project using the Internet

36. adding more people to a project increases the probability that someone’s approach will match the problem in such a way that the solution is obvious (”shallow”) to that person

37. power of open innovation

39. launched November 2007

41. open access

42. open data

44. 100 million blogs

45. ” hundreds of millions” videos on YouTube

46. 5 billion pictures on Flickr

47. one trillion URLs (2008)

51. Public Library of Science (2001)

53. first "complete" human genome published 2001

54. first and biggest open data project

57. business data

59. non-personal

63. benefit: €750bn

65. Google/Android - building business ecosystem by releasing open source

67. building business ecosystem by releasing open data