2015 has been another busy year. The UK and Canadian contingent did their best to steer ISO/TC 266 towards addressing some of the wider goals of B3D/biom*. Fil Salustri has developed a preliminary Biomimetic Assessment Framework that takes into account social/environment/economic factors and adds metrics around the three criteria that ISO/TC 266 proposed for determining if a particular innovation can be considered biomimetic. Curt McNamara, Randy Anway and I are exploring opportunities for collaboration with the INCOSE Natural Systems Working Group. A 'behind the scenes' accomplishment is moving the BID Community and BioDreamMachine websites to a new hosting platform that performs better, is more easily maintained and costs less. I have also been able to tighten up security as part of the migration.
I have been in discussion with the BID Community Think Tank on new directions for 2016. A lot of diverse ideas and potential projects have been raised. Stay tuned in the New Year for further updates and opportunities to share your thoughts.
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