Open Tech Ecosystems:

Future State or Fruitless Discussion?

Randall “Texrat” ArnoldMeeGo Community

What is a

Ecosystem?

tech(or digital)

Is this your world?

SyncML

… or do you live in a Meta-system?

*http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=474342&postcount=11

Open Examples: Community Level HackingEncouraged by Rovio*

Hazards of an Open Tech Ecosystem

• “Lowest Common Denominator” development• Basic HTML 5 used for “everything and the kitchen sink”

• “Netflix Effect”• Hot demand for services like streaming video drives up consumer cost and

fragmentation (mini monopolies)• Choice Overload

• When faced with high number of choices, people tend to go with the crowd• Major player gets cold feet and drops support

• …and others fall like dominoes

In General:

“…ecosystem wars are fought on three fronts: mindshare, market share and patents.”

-Andreas Constantinou

http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2011/09/a-game-of-ecosystems-crashing-the-android-party/

Conclusions?

“A digital ecosystem is a self-organising digital infrastructure aimed at creating a digital environment for networked [entities*] that supports the cooperation, the knowledge sharing, the development of open and adaptive technologies and evolutionary business models.”

http://www.digital-ecosystems.org/(*my edit, was ‘organisations’)

Randall Arnold

http://texrat.net

Thank You!