Eternal vigilance and the open society

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Agenda

•The Open Society•The Capitalist Threat•Traditional Business•The Open Business•Then the Web Came along•Peer Production•Giants•Gladwell was wrong•The Corporate Spring?•Creative Commons and OSI•How We Got Here•The Shoulders of Giants

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Sharing Vs

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The Open Society

“The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the authority of their own intelligence.” - Karl Popper

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The Capitalist Threat

“The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.”= George Soros, Atlantic Monthly, February 1997

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Traditional Business

Buyers and Sellers

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Then The Web Came Along

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Open Peer Production

Natural hierarchies Named sources Many eyes

Internet scale Corrections in public Shoulders of giants

Giants

The Gladwell Fallacy

“The things that [Martin Luther] King needed – discipline and strategy – were things that online social media cannot provide."

From Tahrir

“It's not a Facebook thing, it's an Internet thing.”

- Mark Zuckerburg

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The Corporate Spring?

Makers

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Craft

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The Permission-based Web

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Rules and Governance

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Make a Contribution

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Make a Contribution

Amnesty EFF Greenpeace ORG Mozilla Open source foundations- ASF, Eclipse, Outercurve Transparency International Your local library

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Pro

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Thank You

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Credit● Cathedral http://www.flickr.com/photos/picdrop/8172482/

● Climbing: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jarkko/3567810/

● Quality: http://www.flickr.com/photos/osakasteve/88815080/

● Craftsman http://www.flickr.com/photos/reurinkjan/3088505769/

● Car Crash http://www.flickr.com/photos/madaise/2612487968/

● Tube: http://www.flickr.com/photos/malias/107222810/

● Racket http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjsharktank/2292140095/

● Garden: http://www.flickr.com/photos/giblet/82706780/

● Malcolm Gladwell. Photograph: Zuma / Rex Features/KPA/