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Rachel Botsman: The currency of the new economy is trust |
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There's been an explosion of collaborative consumption -- web-powered sharing of cars, apartments, skills. Rachel Botsman explores the currency that makes systems like Airbnb and Taskrabbit work: trust, influence, and what she calls "reputation capital."
Date: 2012-10-14 22:58:48
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Beth Noveck: Demand a more open-source government |
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What can governments learn from the open-data revolution? In this stirring talk, Beth Noveck, the former deputy CTO at the White House, shares a vision of practical openness -- connecting bureaucracies to citizens, sharing data, creating a truly participatory democracy. Imagine the "writable society...
Date: 2012-10-08 00:56:51
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Open Government Partnership |
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This video describing the work of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) featured during the panel discussion hosted by the Africa Governance Iniative (AGI) and USAID at Busan.
Date: 2012-10-07 22:54:28
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Clay Shirky: How Social Media can make history (TED) |
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While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics. ...
Date: 2012-03-15 02:54:34
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Howard Rheingold: Way-new collaboration |
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Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group. As he points out, humans have been banding together to work collectively since our days of hunting m...
Date: 2012-03-03 04:02:46
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Brad Burnham on SOPA: Innovation Blackout |
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Venture capitalist Brad Burnham on the proposed SOPA / PIPA legislation. Is the controversy really about free speech, or is it just another showdown between rich and powerful Hollywood, and even richer and more powerful Silicon Valley? How will SOPA and PIPA affect everyone?
Date: 2012-01-29 18:57:10
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The Internet in Society: Empowering or Censoring Citizens? (RSA Animate) |
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Does the internet actually inhibit, not encourage democracy? In this new RSA Animate adapted from a talk given in 2009, Evgeny Morozov presents an alternative take on 'cyber-utopianism' - the seductive idea that the internet plays a largely emancipatory role in global politics.
Exposing some idea...
Date: 2012-01-02 18:19:33
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