google policy talk
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Slides from my Google Policy talk, 2/24/11TRANSCRIPT
1. putting users in the center is transformative.
2. it doesn’t happen without good design.
3. the digital commons lets us bring good design from technology into policy.
why I do what I do.
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(we’re not in the center of this graph)
1. putting users in the center is transformative.
2. it doesn’t happen without good design.
3. the digital commons lets us bring good design from technology into policy.
we have so much power, at such a low cost.
but there was institutional resistance.
(didn’t bid on the RFQ)
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congrats on the “interfaith message processor”!
1. putting users in the center is transformative.
2. it doesn’t happen without good design.
3. the digital commons lets us bring good design from technology into policy.
Retrieved from http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeography//atlas/historical.html
good taste.
nothing in architecture to prevent people from integrating something unexpected.
Licensed under CC BY SA by Ed Uthman, http://www.flickr.com/photos/78147607@N00
From: the future of the internet and how to stop it, jonathan zittrain
Text
http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
industries transformed:
books (amazon)newspapers (craigslist)
music (apple)“being social” (FB)
finding a job (linkedin)advertising (rhymes with Doogle)
etc etc etc etc etc
all because of a simple, open, standard, common network design.
allowed the users at the center of the connections...
good network tech can’t transform everything without some help.
industries not transformed:
science-industrial complexeducation-industrial complex
government-industrial complexresearch-industrial complexmedical-industrial complex
that‘s what institutions do.
(they’re not evil)
“the unintended consequences of purposive social action”
privacy will get solved one way or another – walled garden, or standard.
less connections, with less richness, than we need.
1. putting users in the center is transformative.
2. it doesn’t happen without good design.
3. the digital commons lets us bring good design from technology into policy.
but that’s just counting what gets posted.
aggregation. tagging. non-linearity. flow. reuse. adaptation.
Wikimedia globe is… © & ™ All rights reserved, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
nothing in the architecture – legal or technical – to prevent unexpected use.
image released into the public domain by DBpedia team, http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbpedia
with the explosion in use, we’ve had to grow as an organization.
SCIENCE LEARNCULTURE
LEGAL
SCIENCE LEARNCULTURE
LEGAL
TECHNOLOGY
not just “consumers” in the center.
teacher.learner.
scientist.
“stewardship”
building an hourglass at the content and data layers.
citation? reuse? privacy? share-alike? commercial use?
(please join us in the open data journey)
so now what?
tell the story of the commons.design with the commons in mind.embed the commons in a standard way.
tell the story of the commons.design with the commons in mind.embed the commons in a standard way.
(and we’re here to help)
