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The city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, pretty much just won the internet, or at least wins some kind of recognition for pulling off some really cool, publicly crowd-sourced idea generating. With the city’s Tournavation concept–kind of a mashup between tournament and innovation and a few other radical ideas–the public is invited to submit ideas for things that need to be done in the city, even if they themselves don’t know how to make it happen.
Back in 2013, Milwaukee was named as one of the top twenty finalists in New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s open contest that invited mayors of cities across the US to pitch ideas to improve their cities. Winning projects would net that city a $5 million prize for first place and a $1 million prize to each of four runners up in order to complete the projects. While named as a finalist, Milwaukee ultimately didn’t win, but that depends on how you look at it.
In order to think of a project to submit, the mayor of Milwaukee held a contest of his own, and the Tournavation was born. Interestingly, the day after the winners of Bloomberg’s mayoral challenge were announced (and Milwaukee discovered they didn’t win), the city’s second Tournavation was launched.
Now, this ongoing idea generating concept is still in full swing, and the most recent Tournavation is looking to software. Never fear, though, you don’t have to be an IT guy to submit your idea. The city already has its team of software developers standing at the ready to create the program based on the winning concept. The only catch is that this round of Tournavation must be focused on public healthcare.
Whether it’s an app, a website, or a tracker program, the focus is on the health of the public.
According to the city’s announcement of this contest, “We invite the public to participate in a Tournavation that seeks catalytic software solutions that will improve the health of Milwaukee’s women and children, fathers and families. The most viable, scalable and concrete idea will be developed by a coalition of volunteer IT professionals led by Red Arrow Labs, a Dohmen Company. The software will be gifted to the community as a single, tangible step toward improving the health of Milwaukee residents… Not so tech savvy? No worries! We have a team of amazing IT professionals who will design and develop the software. We’re looking for great ideas that support and enrich the health of Milwaukeeans. That idea could benefit consumers directly or it could be for an organization. We recognize that ‘health’ is a broad term and encourage wide interpretation. We welcome a broad range of ideas ideas.”
Some of the proposed topics including increasing access to health education and information, increasing the ability to make healthy choices through technology, increasing the life span and health of adult males, combating the connection between poverty and poor health, and many more.
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Last week the American Registry for Internet Numbers, (ARIN), the company responsible for handing out IP addresses in North America, announced that it had run out of old school IPv4 addresses for Google the internet.
That this day was coming has been well known for years. The good news, is that most people won’t be affected now, or in the future. Those most affected are large organisations, software companies and Internet Service Providers.
For those who don’t know how the internet works, here is the briefest of introductions.
Every phone, computer, tablet and device that connects to and uses the internet must have an IP address. This is what identifies every machine on the internet, and allows it to use other IP addresses, such as this one: 74.125.224.72. This is Google.com’s IP address. When you type ‘Google.com’ into…well…the Google search bar, that string of 4 numbers is where you end up, because that is Google.com’s address on the internet.
The problem, is that that string of numbers only has 4 numbers in it, and the organisation that hands them out to companies, hands them out at around a million a time. Back in the 1970s, when the internet was created, few predicted that the internet was going to become the size it has. 30 years ago, having a possible 4.3 billion individual IP addresses probably seemed like overkill.
ARIN reported last week that it currently only has around 130,000 left.
No. Fortunately, back in the late 1990’s pretty much in parralel with the original dot.com technology bubble, some forward thinking people saw that IPv4 was going to run out so designed something called IPv6 instead. Essentially while IPv4 had 4.3,000,000,000 IP adresses, IPv6 has 340,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible IP addresses available to use. And the good news, is that most new devices and every current Operating system already uses it.
No, not really. You may go about your business, these are not the droids you’re looking for etc. Most organizations, like Internet Service Providers, and those institutions that form the backbone of the internet etc, have been slowly making the transition away from IPv4 to IPv6 for several years. The issue is that IPv4 and IPv6 can’t really talk to each other, without some technology hocus pocus being stuck between them. But again, as ISPs and Server suppliers upgrade and modernise their infrastructre, the transisition should in the main, be fairly seamless.
IPv4 was the internet standard that survived. Once upon time there were others, but they didn’t survive. The amazing thing about IPv4 was that IPv4 wasn’t supposed to form the nuts and bolts of the internet. It was designed to test the orginal internet. Put bluntly, it was an “an experiment that escaped the lab.”
IPv4’s demise marks a milestone in the brief history of the internet. In a hundred years time, Ipv4 may not even garner a footnote in history, but for now, its passing is significant. Its success and durability is a true testament to the advancement of technology and the growth of the internet.
*I know Nostradamus was not alive in the 19th Century and as far as I am aware, he made no predictions about the internet.
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