Meet our speakers, who are active leaders in the T.I.M.E. (Technology, Information, Media, Entertainment) areas.
Marcin Jakubowski
Founder, Open Source Ecology
A Polish-American farmer and technologist who is starting a new civilization from scratch in Midwestern US, Marcin Jakubowski moved to the US from Poland as a child. He graduated with honors from Princeton and earned his Ph.D. in Fusion Physics from the University of Wisconsin but was left feeling disillusioned at the end of it.
Frustrated with the lack of relevance to pressing world issues in his education, he founded Open Source Ecology in 2003 and began developing the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS), a DIY tool-set of 50 different industrial machines - from tractors, cement mixers to bread ovens, all of which he aims to open source; so that anyone from the remote villages in Third World countries to the rural farms of Missouri can have access to these meaningful tools to create a better life for themselves. He believes this can be achieved by open-sourcing modern technology and adapting it for maximum human service, by lowering the barriers to enterprise. His work was recently widely recognized in his acceptance as a 2012 Senior TED Fellow and a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow for 2012 and 2013.
Marcin says his mission is to create the Open Source Economy; an efficient economy that optimizes both production and distribution, while providing environmental regeneration and social justice; an economy that affords people an opportunity to thrive, and to pursue mastery and autonomy.
Frustrated with the lack of relevance to pressing world issues in his education, he founded Open Source Ecology in 2003 and began developing the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS), a DIY tool-set of 50 different industrial machines - from tractors, cement mixers to bread ovens, all of which he aims to open source; so that anyone from the remote villages in Third World countries to the rural farms of Missouri can have access to these meaningful tools to create a better life for themselves. He believes this can be achieved by open-sourcing modern technology and adapting it for maximum human service, by lowering the barriers to enterprise. His work was recently widely recognized in his acceptance as a 2012 Senior TED Fellow and a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow for 2012 and 2013.
Marcin says his mission is to create the Open Source Economy; an efficient economy that optimizes both production and distribution, while providing environmental regeneration and social justice; an economy that affords people an opportunity to thrive, and to pursue mastery and autonomy.