technology and social movements
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Technology and Social Movements
“We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
Relevant Experience
Technology Focus...Private Client Investment advisory and Investment Banking
Scotia McLeod: Private Client investment services for 7 yearsBig Cap tech focus... Intel, Cisco, OracleParticipated in dot com explosion!
Catalyst Capital Partners: investment banking and strategic advisory services for 5 yearsRaised $1,000,000 for several early stage tech
companiesVOIP infrastructureWirelessDid M&A transaction for mobile messaging
platform
OpenKollabExploring the power of open collaboration
Global virtual community of 280+ technologists, academics and change agents
Co-founded with two others...Discussion space to network, exchange ideas
and stimulate projectsResulted in several innovative models/projects
Concept of EcosystemEcosystem Pooled FundProject Matching architectureOpen Manufacturing Ecosystem
Current Context
Technological TransformationThe Forces at Play
Broadband Proliferation
Increase in Processing Power
Decrease in Cost of Memory
Real Time Infrastructure
Power at Edge of Network
High VISIBILITY and Connectedness
Simultaneously...
Values TransformationThe Forces at Play
Climate Change
Financial Market Collapse
Alienation and Fragmentation in Western Culture
Discontent!Shifts in Global Balance of Power
Absence of Holistic/Spiritual Context
The Tipping PointThe Forces at Play
Values Transformation
Technological Transformation
The Tipping Point!!
So What Now?
The New ParadigmWhere we are going and where we need to go
OLD NEW
Hierarchical Flat
Closed Open
Centralized Decentralized
Privacy Transparency
Self- Interested Cooperative
Competitive Collaborative
Isolated Connected
Corporations Social Ventures, Co-Ops
Insular World View Holistic World View
Compartmentalization: mind, body, spirit
Integration: mind, body, spirit
Fixation on financial capital
Broader definition of capital
How Can We Think About Revolution?
Visibility, Representation and Group Consciousness
Is there a virtual analogue?
Imagine this number being 100,000,000!!
How, you ask?
Highly Scalable Mass Collaboration Platforms... Two different approaches
Open Project
Infrastructure
•‘Bootstrapping’•Platform
Ecosystem Rollout
•Platform
Open Project Infrastructure
Need to solve two problems...
Bootstrapping...
Project Matching
Collaboration
How Does Matching Work?
By analysing projects, we plan to develop project meta-
data analogous to the personal meta-data used by dating
sites
Project Matching via Meta- Data
MissionGoalsLeaderTeamMilestones
AgeSexHeightInterestsHobbies
PROJECT META-DATA
PERSONAL META-DATA
Note that Visible Personal Meta-Data is a recent phenomena. Why not Visible
Project Meta-Data?
Open Project ArchitectureMultiple Platforms... ‘bootstrapping’
Workstream 1
Workstream 2
Workstream 3
Each workstream is supported by a set of virtual tools
•Google Group•Skype Chat•Wiki•Facebook Group
Workstreams... A real example...
ProM has three workstreams each with a
particular mandate and set of interaction spaces
enabled by certain tools
MetaDataOutreach Technology
Mandate is to identify the meta-data that can facilitate matching
Mandate is to identify
candidate groups for
matching and to develop
engagement strategy
Mandate is to both identify and test tools for internal
use as well as support ProM
platform development
Ecosystem Rollout
Forestry
Project 1Project 2 Project 3
Land UseProject 1Project 2 Project 3
Oceans
Project 1Project 2 Project 3
Climate Change
What might a ‘Facebook like’ platform that
connected ecosystems look
like?
What Is An Ecosystem?
Current ProjectsIsofractal...
IsofractalTeam: Curtis Faith, Kenny Kasajian, Suresh
Fernando‘Cloud Operating System’ for mass
collaborationApplication development frameworkBased on ecosystem modelWill roll out within ecosystemsInitial Ecosystem Focus
Social FinanceLocal Foods
Corporate Structure
Current ProjectsPartyX
PartyX... A few details...
The problem(s)Democracy is a flawed mechanism for
reflecting the ‘aggregate satisfaction’ of large numbers of people
We need decision making models that work across organizational boundaries (trans organizational collab.)
A new model (set of algorithms) for collaborative decision making
Will involve a ‘movement building’ aspect
CrowdsourcingThe Evolution of TribeSourcing
Crowdsourcing... Initial thoughts
Why crowdsourcing?... No money for high risk social change projects (period)
Hard to get money from institutions if you are a change agent trying to change the institutional framework
Myself and my partner, Joe Brewer, raised $5,000 to draft a paper on “Crowdsourcing Social Movements”
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