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Using Social Technology to Accelerate Social Change
@nilanp
Nilan Peiris
Disruptive Social Technologist
CMTO - HolidayExtras.com
Passionate about using techology to enable change
Oxfam...
... seeks to work with others to alleviate poverty and suffering
Through:
✦ Crisis Relief
✦ International Development
✦ Campaigning for policy change
Given the events in North Africa - where and how could Oxfam invest in enabling disruptive social technologies to accelerate change ?
How did this enable regime change ?What happened in North Africa ?
How did this enable regime change ?
How did this enable regime change ?
Witness
How did this enable regime change ?Supernode
How did this enable regime change ?
Bridge
How did this enable regime change ?
Interpretation
How did this enable regime change ?
Selection
How did this enable regime change ?
Mutation
How did this enable regime change ?
Amplification
How did this enable regime change ?
Activation
How did this enable regime change ?
Collective
What are the technical enablers ?
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What matters from a human perspective ?
•Visual
•Redundant network
•$0 distribution
•Uncensored
•Amplification of weak link
Why is this important ?
In countries with no credible opposition, no counterbalance to leadership, no free press
A platform for the distribution and evolution of ideas is a catalyst for change
Next steps
1) Understand and evolve data
2) Layer on development thinking
3) Evolve platform
Ideas to Evolve platform
1)Secure platform - e.g.encrypt tweets
2)Store distributed media - e.g.torrent file sharing on twitter
3)Evolve leadership and collective decision making structures e.g. use open source, creative commons models
Contributors:
@joe_stump - founder of digg.com @phil_blue - aid worker - liberia@jim_webber - Chief Scientist Neo4J@tr_baldwin - head of ecommerce OUP@laia_collazos - head of digital TES@the_kensta - Data Scientist - Holidayextras.com