1 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
I originally intended to present on how we should be careful not to sleepwalk into closed systems on the web that can be switched off at a moments notice- what I call the Permission-based web. But then the Arab Spring happened. Then the London Riots happened. I decided to take a much deeper look at the Open Society, and how all this ties together.
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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