The Biological Open Source (BiOS) Initiative is fundamentally an effort to develop new innovation
ecosystemsfor disadvantaged communities and neglected priorities.The BiOS Initiative uses the communications toolsof the Internet and open
source to generate open access to capabilities for innovation.The BiOS is the legally enforceable framework to enable
the sharing of the capability to use patented and non-patented technology, which
may include materials and methods, within dynamically expanding group of those
who all agree to the same principles of responsible sharing. 
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 According to molecular biologist Richard Jefferson, civilization has
been built on ‘open source’ for 4000 years... ‘but it wasn’t
with software, it was with plants, it was with animals, it was with
agriculture’. The founder of Brisbane-based technology non-profit Cambia,
Jefferson is convinced that biotechnology can be used to benefit
the impoverished, but if the innovation process is ‘democratized’
to allow inclusive access to critical scientific tools.
Cambia is named #86 among Top 100 Best NGO in the world by the Global Journal 2012.
  
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On January 11, 2011, the GreenXchange held an in-person Collaboratory
that included attendance by Brooks, Nike, New Balance, Oregon based
non-profits, the University of Oregon, the University of Washington and
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The focus of the meeting was
on providing technical assistance to footwear companies licensing the
environmentally preferred rubber (EPR) patent offered through the
GreenXchange.
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