quote via Noam Kostucki in his TedxWarsaw.
11:44 -
great capture of the same idea - focused specifically to educators via Gregory Hill at El Parque Nuez
he references Clay Shirky's June 2010 Ted:
11:25
single idea from ori akola sp? - to 2 programmers (72 hours later) launched in jan 2008 - then open sourced.
used in mexico, washington dc, haiti, .. ushahidi has gone worldwide in less that 3 years.
a crisis map
takes tacit info available to everyone and aggregates (no one person knows what everyone knows) it and makes it public
Ushahidi (witness or testimony):
not possible w/o
digital tech or
human generosity
cognitive surplus - the new design resource
the ability of the world pop to volunteer on global projects
1) world's free time and talents (over a trillion hours a year to commit to free time)
2) we like to create and we like to share
the gap is between doing anything and doing nothing
shared source: design for generosity
lolcats is communal value
ushahidi is civic value - goals are not just to make life better for participants - but for everyone in society.
civic value is not just a side effect of opening up to human motivation
there are a trillion hours a year of participatory value up for grabs...
organizations designed
around a culture of
generosity
can achieve incredible
effects without a grand
amount of overhead -
free cultures get what they celebrate - Dean Kamen -
let's celebrate civic value
on july 14:
adding on Hans Rosling's june 2010 Ted...
very similar to his office chat:
let's do it because it's possible
The world's population will grow to 9 billion over the next 50 years -- and only by raising the living standards of the poorest can we check population growth.
we can have a just population. it is possible.
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