The management technology has evolved beyond what has been described here. The economic development with out the concurrent human development is bound to be ineffective. The empowerment of the political systems (as described here: http://www.ucmss.com/main/papersNew/papersAll/EEE4650.pdf) are essential for human as well as economic development to occur in 21st century and beyond.

Warning for global suicide and time running out, the UN's Ban Ki-moon called last Friday at Davos for revolutionary thinking and action to ensure an economic model for survival. Could this be such revolutionary thinking?

A great fresh idea to work globally

At long last someone trying to democratize Economic Development! The steps taken to improve quality of life for fellow citizens has been so fragmented for so long. Each agency, NGO, club, government, party all go after the goal of ED but in their own independent ways. Why? Because each believes they have the answer, or part thereof, and this have their own systems, structures, heirarchy to implement their vision of ED.

Reality is different. We have the resources to solve poverty, hunger, conflict - but we dont. Is it because we cant? No - it is because we dont communicate and interoperate in a manner that allows leverage instead of competition.

This concept of a "central brain" is bringing structure and universally acceptable process (cos both get defined by participants), to the field of Economic Development. In a way it also democratizes this endeavour as it provides a means for those who are the targets to be able to participate. Imagine the benefit of disaster victims being able to give immediate 24x7 feedback about aid direct to the whole organisation. The various social networks also give this access and broadcasting, but in an unstructured manner without any process, and the platforms have commercial goals in "their DNA". Thus such platforms are not open to inspection, audit.

Mr Cake's hack is a gift to the world in that he has take his own observations from fields of banking, investment, NGOs and synthesized this into a platform to address this need for coordination vs competition, transparency vs opaquness, crowdsourcing vs fund sourcing. A new world awaits if we can action this.

Marcus, I especially like your 3 dimensional model of transparency. The linkages of each small cube are often hidden, or not clear, forcing people to go around a block, or appeal to a higher authority to get things done.

The power of each block is dependent on the networking power that they can command, be that through legal, financial, incumbent authority or other sources of power.

The implementation of your hack will expose power balances and help people access resources to get things done.

Marcus, what will be web 5.0 look like after 4.0?

Hi marcus,great hack! I would like to accelerate my project Integrated waste managemnt(Green Re-cycle.com on face book) but am having troubles accessing your site.please help.Green Re-cycle.com
INTRODUCTION
The integrated waste management system (Green Re-cycle.com on facebook) is a Geo-social network like foursquare social network with gaming feature which enables people of different social back ground to invest on the Commodities Futures Exchange and the Stock Exchange. People can invest using their waste, money and by working for a recycling company.
The current state of affairs in which investment trends are moving away from the stock exchange to the commodities futures exchange and the fact that people at the bottom of the social pyramid have little disposable income to invest on both, makes it is necessary to come up with an alternative investment scheme that enable the poor to invest on these exchanges. In addition, the waste management of cities highlights an opportunity for redirecting resource (after recovering them) from bins and sewers of both the poor and rich into investment schemes. This is the Integrated Waste Management System (Green Re-cycle.com) .Its purpose is to manage waste by techniques used to raise capital for various businesses on the stock exchange. Since waste of different kinds can be used as the principle raw material by various companies, it is therefore some kind of capital .This waste can therefore be recycled in the most cost effective ways by experts using different processes to produce different kinds of goods [see you tube and linkedin: weima , komptech , 2k manufacturing] .The major difference that this approach has to other proposed systems is that the person producing and depositing waste becomes a shareholder and has the rights to invest in whichever recycling business he or she chooses. Just as on the stock exchange, shares can be acquired on primary and secondary markets or by working for a recycling company.
The processed waste can first be turn into purified commodities and then into finished goods. Since these recycling companies listed on the stock exchange will eventually end up trading on the commodities futures exchange, the futures contracts they engage in will help their investors to see their future earnings. Where the recycling companies do not add value beyond the purification level, the manufacturers will have a local supply of processed material to make their goods. If these manufacturing companies are listed on the stock exchange, Investors of the recycling companies will be able to analyze their performance through the commercial market and stock exchange. So the investors of the recycling company will be able to understand the whole value chain and be better informed to invest in other related businesses along this value chain.
The most critical components In this system are those that have evolved from internet and mobile networks [Internet and mobile banking ,dodgeball ,foursquare ,e-bay, amazon , trading of shares and commodities on the Internet etc],thus making e-commerce possible. This makes transaction nearly instantaneous. The ease with which people of different social background can participate is quite significant.
Another feature that makes this system effective is the GPS [Global Position System].This makes it possible to locate various kinds of waste. The coupling of GPS with the qualitative information gathered at the site and transmitted through Internet and mobile networks makes collection of this waste by interested companies efficient [see Dodgeball, Foursquare, tweeter, Facebook etc].
To make this possible the whole architecture of waste collection from the point of collection to the place where the waste is recycled has to be adapted. Perishable food stuff such as vegetables and leftover meals, should be vacuum sealed before being turn into feed for fish and livestock [tables of citrus on pages 3].

The bins used to carry the waste can be further modified so that different kinds of waste can be placed in different compartments. A bar code placed on the bag containing the waste identifies the person depositing the waste, the kind of waste [quality and quantity: see KTZ-Terberg and kliko on you tube] and the destination of the waste. This information is transmitted through internet and mobile networks to logistics companies which can then distributed the waste in much the same way postal services distribute mail. This happens after the waste has been collected and placed at a strategic location for it to then be transported to an appropriate recycling center. These transactions can be facilitated by some of the software and hardware belonging to craft silicon and KTZ-Terberg and Kliko.
All this suggests the mass use of Smart bins and Smart Toilets (see bill gates reinvents the toilet on you tube) which can be designed to record the details of each and every person that uses them and then send this information to a database of a recycling company. Conventional recycling is a mature industry so I will concentrate on biological recycling.
BIOLOGICAL RECYCLERS
All the biological agents used to recycle organic waste have a great capacity of consuming waste and of multiplying quickly so that the problem can be handled as soon as possible. Four biological agents have been chosen to help do this. These are fungus, bacteria, plants and fish.
1] Fungus has the capacity to grow rapidly from spores and can therefore colonize a substrate of enormous quantity.
2] Bacteria multiplies by binary fission.
3] Fish lay a large number of eggs and can therefore quickly multiply to march the supply of waste that has been turned into feed.
4] A large number of plants can be propagated by seeds, cuttings and tissue culture.
BIOLOGICAL RECYCLING CENTRE
By grouping areas of low population density (such as farms) with areas of high population density (such as compounds) - waste that is generated in areas where there is on space to set up a biological recycling centre can be moved to areas where there is space to set up such a centre. One example is a Greenhouse in which plants are propagated in cartons which are used to carry liquids, such as empty shake-shake packs, and plastic bottles recycled into flower pots and plant containers. After their growth has been accelerated they can be distributed among homes near schools, restaurant and hotels. This helps to march the supply of fresh fruit and vegetables with demand and therefore reduces waste by cutting the cost of transport, refrigeration and avoiding over- productivity.
I have recommended the use of technologies of siemen –logo micro automation, SIMATIC S7- 200 and Craft Silicon-Bankers Realm EFT Solution (BREFT ).
BASIC WEB DESIGN FOR GEO-SOCIAL NETWORK
Manufacturers of recycling equipment (from waste management world magazine) Rating from 1to 5 stars
Recyclers of waste (e.g.ari.capital, Ostara Nutriate Recovery, Bioconstruct) Rating from 1to 5 stars
General public investors (user of Geo-social network; individual commentators & individual investors) Rating from 1 to 5 stars
Institutional Investors (Hedge funds, Insurance companies, Banks etc) Rating from 1 to 5 stars
Stock Exchange (stock of recycling companies etc) Rating from 1 to 5 stars
Board of Trades (commodities- primary and processed) Rating 1 to 5 stars
Social Networks connected with APIs ( linkedin, facebook, tweeter,youtube, ebay, Amazon, foursquare, yelp, The BBC etc ) Rating 1 to 5 stars
Manufacturers (xxxxx,wwwww,etc) Rating 1 to 5
NGOs (Avaaz, oackland institute, oxfarm, ActionAid etc) Rating 1 to 5 stars
Entrepreneurs’ ideas (e.g. through youtube) Rating 1 to 5 stars
Angel Investors (e.g.kiva) Rating 1 to 5 stars
Fresh patent.com and late patent.com/expired patents.com, Ratings of patents 1 to 5 stars
Apps Rating from 1 to 5(e.g. for Investors education to Trade in stocks, commodities and other investments –My Town app)
Energy saving technologies (e.g. solar, wind etc) Rating 1 to 5.