Google Policy talk

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)

Retrieved from http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeography//atlas/historical.html

congrats on the “interfaith message processor”!

Licensed under CC BY NC by Randall Munroe,

http://xkcd.com/256/

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.

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/DiscoverEd

http://neurocommons.org/page/Bundles

“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)

thanks.

wilbanks@creativecommons.org@wilbanks