Photograph by Richard Olsenius

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wikileaks

FOO.GOV

NSA

All your old spreadsheets

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Data is changing the nature of politics, business, design, products and services.

This reflects a cultural shift to an open, networked society.

There are more people online today

than were alive when I was born

7B people today…8B by 2025…9B by 2040

3B people online today 5B machines online today 25B machines online by 2020

“Everything is now a computer” — Bruce Schneier

The digital economy uses 10% of global electricity

The same amount used to light the entire planet in 1985

Our challenge is to sustain over 7B people while hitting peak ‘everything’ everywhere

“We know we have to adapt — how?

Digital engagement driving e-commerceFootfall has moved to online

Strategy for constant change? Where is the customer?How do I reach them? How can we innovate?

What about intellectual property / security / quality / liability / value / brand? Risk of inaction, or action…

We struggle to keep up”

Fear

Uncertainty

Doubt

Incumbent

credit: Simon Wardley http://blog.gardeviance.org/

credit: Simon Wardley http://blog.gardeviance.org/

WhatsApp – 60,000,000,000 messages/day(with <100 engineers)

Global SMS– 20,000,000,000 messages/day

A square foot of screen sold for every adult on Earth*

*in the last 15 years

Linux (1991) 100,000 contributors10,000,000 servers100,000,000 phones

Wikipedia30,294,961 registered users41,515,145 pages139,688 active editors5th most popular website

Wordpress 74,652,825 websites (about 25% of the top 10M sites)

Github24,377,273 users53,000,000+ code repositories597 employees

12,182,155 wallets

Emergence of networks that have centralised databases but are not operated by any single entity

Open vs Proprietary ‘Closed’ Security Systems

“We predict adopters of closed systems will regret making short-term gains at the expense of long-term pain.”

World Security Report 2015-01 http://ow.ly/HGVCW

OpenCorporates126,614,925 companies

10 staff

Kickstarter$2,879,839,833 raised

12,448,917 donors 119,823 successful projects

p2p lending (UK)£6,500,000,000

Gangham style 2,769,000,000 views

http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are – 23M views

TransportAPIA data-driven ecosystem that joins cities, large and small businesses, and citizens

UK’s open transport platform

1,500 developers

Fremium model (data-as-a-service)

80% of UK transport data

http://www.transportapi.com

NETWORK THINKING

for a data generation

https://www.flickr.com/photos/pkwflickr/6188760566/in/album-72157627764211574/

Open roads underpin our physical economy

Open networks underpin our digital economy

Open data underpins our knowledge economy

Data is changing the nature of politics, business, design, products and services.

This reflects a cultural shift to an open, networked society.