Information Technology

What’s going on?

David N Wallace

Agenda What’s going on?

Time magazine Mob Rules video Inversion chart

What’s our Response Focus Empower 4 Pillars

Summarise

What’s going on?

Person of the year

2006 - YOU

What’s going on? It's a story about

community and collaboration on a scale never seen before.

It's about the cosmic compendium of knowledge

Wikipedia and the million-channel people's network

What’s going on? It's about the many wresting

power from the few…

and helping one another for nothing

and how that will not only change the world,

but also change the way the world changes.

What’s going on? The tool that makes this

possible is the World Wide Web.

Not the Web ... as a way for scientists to share research.

not even the over hyped dotcom Web of the late 1990s.

What’s going on? The new Web is a very

different thing.

It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter.

What’s going on? together small people matter

YOU

What’s going on?

Mob Rules Video - Mark Pesce

web directions south, september 2007

What’s going on?Inversion - individual capitalism and the

subversion of institutions.

- scarcity and abundance

Mode Past Future

Scarcity Connectivity

Information

$ for social services

Abundance $ for social services

Connectivity

Information

What’s our response?

Make

Networks

Happen

What’s our response? Make Networks

Happen Need to empower

those we serve to be part of the Mob - to connect to each other.

Focus on Services not Sites

Disintermediation

What’s our response?

Everything is becoming social.

What’s our response?

Information as Conversation

Conversation - DIRC & Community

Conversation - Consumer & Consumer

What’s our response?

Focus on what we are funded for Build platform for opportunity and scale

What’s our response?

Focus on what we are funded for Databases News SA Info filtering

What’s our response?

Build platform for opportunity and scale increased ease finding info

search select talk

easier staff manage info. flow create remix

easier to support related orgs create services scale

What’s our response?

Four Pillars Publishing Search Conversation Fulfillment

Hat tip: JP Rangaswami, CIO BT Global Services (confusedofcalcutta.com)

What’s our response?

3 features of a social networkDiscover and Share (search)Create and Share (publish)Discuss and Share (conversation)

Fulfilment through Sharing in Network

Hat tip: Laurel Papworth, Social Network Strategist (silkcharm.blogspot.com. )

What’s our response?

Make Networks Happen Need to empower those we serve to be

part of the Mob to connect to each other.

Focus on Services not Sites Disintermediation

Summarise

Rule 5 - make networks happen.

Medicine is the last bastion of authority and hierarchy

In twenty years’ time, one in four Australians will be 65 or older

There is no medical authority big enough to deal with such a mass of gerontology

Summarise

Rule 5 - make networks happen. (cont.)

Common base of collective knowedge. Embeded in strong social network. Network of experts - not necessarily 'board

qualified' - peers; us. No hierarchy in mob – meritocracy

Summarise

Rule 5 - make networks happen. (cont.)

Know what NOT to do. NOT build barriers (to information) NOT make heirarchies (barriers to people) NOT lock in (people/info) NOT be a portal (can’t scale)

Summarise

Information as Conversation Make Networks Happen

Have courage and keep moving.