y4it congress passion & innovation why philippines is the next silicon valley final
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Passion and
Technology
Innovation:
Why the Philippines is
Emerging as the Silicon
Valley of Asia
Dream, Work Backwards, build teams, ignore
rockstars… oh yea be random and make sure to fail
lots of times.
Kevin Leversee
On the Field of Self
stand a knight and a
Dragon, you are the
Knight Resistance is the
Dragon. –Stephen Pressfield
Kevin Leversee
Scar Tissue is
Stronger than
normal skin…
Scar tissue
is stronger
than regular
skin, realize
the strength
– move on.
-Henry
Rollins
Kevin Leversee
Teacher: what are you drawing?
Little Girl: God!
Teacher: well no one knows what
God looks like!
Little Girl: Well they will in a
minute!
Kevin Leversee
"Nobody ever discussed
politics ever." They paused &
added, "Well, except online,
of course. We all discussed
politics online.“
–Egyptian man after revolution
Kevin Leversee
Do you want to sell sugared water for
the rest of your life or do you want to
change the world?
-Steve Jobs
Kevin Leversee
The Internet demands that we notice. It illuminates
that which we least want to see. It shows many of our
youth struggling and hurting and crying out for help. Of
course, the Internet does not do this by itself. It does it
because we’re looking. But we’re not seeing. We’re
giving agency to the Internet so that we can blame it for
what it reveals, rather than forcing ourselves to
contend with what we see.
At the end of the day, the Internet is not the issue.
The issue is us.
Citation: boyd, danah and Alice Marwick (2009). “The Conundrum of Visibility.”
Kevin Leversee
About Kevin Leversee:
Called the ‘Apostle of Hustle’ Kevin has
been building Mobile Social and Web
Business for over 15 years in 5
countries. Once voted Australia’s Top
60 Startups, Kevin now focuses on
helping others get ideas to market. He
speaks and teaches at leading
technology and innovation events.
American Expat adopted by both
Australia and Philippines. Is a Excited
Father and family man He loves:
#Mexican Food #Music #Innovation
#Ocean #Beer in no particular order.
Technology is the enabler of
business not its purpose.
@kevinleversee [email protected]
Kevin Leversee
Sources: This Quotes mulltiple sources regarding Tiananmen The Internet Dissent and Technology Capabilities
http://globalcitizen.net/Data/Pages/1155/papers/20090209145414862.pdf
This is one of the leading sources about the technology used in Tiananmen 1989 and what that meant for our future http://www.mendeley.com/research/political-economy-tiananmen-square/
http://www.smh.com.au/news/tv-reviews/as-it-happened-tiananmen-square--the-tank-man/2008/05/15/1210765032939.html http://chinadigitaltimes.net/china/tank-man/ Documentary about the June 1989 Tiananmnet uprising
Wikipedia on the June 1989 Tiananmen uprising http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989
Media Used to report 1989 Tiananmen Square http://www.waccglobal.org/en/19972-communication-and-national-identity/933-Crippling-Government-Information-Control-in-China-The-Role-of-new-media-technologies*--.html
Fax Machines and Networks in 1989 how Chinese used during Tiananmen http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2009/06/03/tiananmen-square-and-technology/
http://legendofpineridge.blogspot.com/2006/10/china-internet-and-tiananmen-square.html Internet use to communicate Tiananmen
2004 viewpoint on social media and how internet plays a role in Tiananmen and more http://many.corante.com/archives/2004/06/04/fifteen_years_after_tiananmen_massacre_will_the_internet_be_the_new_hope.php
Interview with Tank Man Photographer http://asianhistory.about.com/od/china/a/WidenerIntervw.htm Internet Use in China 1989 and as it relates to Tiananmen http://www.vsw.org/exhibitions/Result_ZERO/G_Yang.pdf Impact of Pro Democracy movement in China 1989 http://ebookee.org/The-Impact-of-China-s-1989-Tiananmen-Massacre-China-Policy-Series_1328063.html
Internet use and Culture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#Use_and_culture open communications (fax and e-mail) are widely thought to have helped to bring down the Soviet military coup in
1991. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5064 Arab Uprising http://www.channel4.com/media/images/Channel4/c4-news/FEB/23/Graphic_ArabWorld_unrest.jpg A personal political blog regarding arab uprising and more http://marisacat.wordpress.com/category/democrats/lie-down-fall-down-dems/
Internet as a tool for social development http://www.net4dev.se/uimonen/INET97.htm Chinese computer networks established e-mail links to the Internet as early as the late 1980’s
Chinese youth using web for revolution http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/7/chinas-young-using-the-internet-as-a-tool-for-revo/?page=all Detailed and quoted amongst multiple sources as the use of Internet and network technologies during Tiananmen Square
http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/ogandy/c734%20resources/kluver-uschinapolicyexpectationsinternet.pdf MIT report on the Arab Uprisings and technologies used http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/guest/27122/ People Powered Movement and the Arab Spring how technology levels the playing field http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/guest/27122/
We are all Khaled Sain = the facebook page after Khaled Sain was murdered by police in their custody for posting pics of police brutality and corruption that started the Egyptian Movement http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/world/middleeast/06face.html?_r=1
Kevin Leversee
Sources: Watse is good http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2009/06/waste-is-good-free-excerpt-in-wired.html
40 years after the moon http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/tag/moon-landing/ Killing Rommel start of special forces http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004PGO25O/ref=as_li_ss_tl/?ie=UTF8&tag=thecompaadvan-
20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=B004PGO25O and killing the resistance dragon http://youtu.be/zHjxQmxZDuA
Lighting homes with recycled soda bottles http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/Change-Agent/2011/0822/Used-soda-bottles-light-up-the-
world-for-free Randomness and failing fast Cory Doctrow http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2008/05/cory-doctorow-think-like-dandelion.html Sell sugar water or change the world? http://lci.typepad.com/leaders_resourcing_leader/2008/06/selling-sugar-water-or-changing-the-world.html
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/03/02/dunbar-interview/ About the 150 cognitive limit on relationships
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Granovetter s leading social scientist that formulated both small worlds thru short paths and weak ties tter/documents/granstrengthweakties.pdf about weak tieies in social groups and clustering with close ties http://www.analytictech.com/networks/weakties.htm interesting follow up on Granovetters work
http://smg.media.mit.edu/classes/library/granovetter.weak.ties/granovetter.html more http://www.danah.org/papers/ A true pioneer in the social networking and new media space
http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/visualizing-friendships/469716398919 good stuff for mapping social net
Network Centric WarFare how small world math translates into http://www.dsto.defence.gov.au/research/4051/page/4403/
Small world Exercise from Cornell University talks specifically how ideas spread, randomness dramatically decreases the degre es of separation http://pages.physics.cornell.edu/~myers/teaching/ComputationalMethods/ComputerExercises/SmallWorld/SmallWorld.html
Small world networks, all organic networks are the same math 6 degrees or less, randomness is good.; http://scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com/search/label/SmallWorlds
Physics and http://pages.physics.cornell.edu/~myers/teaching/ComputationalMethods/ComputerExercises/SmallWorld/kleinberg_small_world_handout.pdf Social and Biological network structure shows how ideas spread thru small world math= this is important as it ties in meme’s political uphevals and is the math
behind what is happening in our world today http://aps.arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0112110/