The Fiat Mio CC (@fiatmio) is a concept car where more than 15,000 people have submitted their ideas and contributions against 21 topics / discussion areas. All contributions have been submitted under a Creative Commons licence (see Fiat's terms) and have been used to shape the Fiat Concept Car III (FCC III) - "a car to call your own".

Users were stimulated to think in broad terms about traffic and life onboard. From the analysis of almost 17 thousand contributors, a briefing was elaborated containing the most popular ideas, suggestions and demands that make more sense with regard to the scenery faced by most participants. The end result was summarized as follows:

“A compact and agile car, comfortable and safe with innovative traffic solutions for big cities, a pollutant-free engine and the capacity to receive personalized updates, and changes in configuration, and having interface between car and user”.

The FCC III is the end result of this briefing. Fiat will unveil this future Concept Car at the Automobile Show in October 2010.

Cameron Sinclair is the 2006 TED Prize winner and co-founder (and “Chief Eternal Optimist”) of Architecture for Humanity (@archforhumanity) and the Open Architecture Network, a non-profit that seeks architecture solutions to global crises.

Hundreds of projects are available on the Open Architecture Network and are all licensed with a Creative Commons licence – eg “Adaptable Hillside Classrooms”.

Each project contains a workspace, team profiles, project updates and access to related files that aims to offer open source architectural plans and blueprints on the web.

This TEDx Dubai 2009 talk by Joi Ito is a great introduction to the technical and legal stack underpinning and driving innovation in open networks with a focus on how sharing changes things.

The Internet has evolved in the last 20 years from a network connecting people to a bigger network connecting more people, but has something more significant happened during this expansion?  This is a copy of the presentation delivered at the #wdytyg workshop.

Business models around Open Source Software have matured over the last 10 years generating significant revenues for those organisations that open up their intellectual property. This open source approach is now spreading into other areas where collaboration, peering, openness and sharing can bring tangible benefits to all participants.