Florence Devouard - fdevouard@anthere.org Internet in a spin December 2008 Florence Nibart Devouard...

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Internet in a spin

December 2008Florence Nibart Devouard

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Wikipedia radical idea

Imagine a world…

in which every single person

is given access to the sum of human knowledge

My daughter, unknown artist,before I bought her a real computer

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Global top 10 website(Alexa, ComScore, Nielsen)

Latin America -- 34% reachNorth America -- 31% reachMiddle East/Africa -- 25% reachAsia Pacific -- 17% reachEurope – 32% reach

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1. 10,000,000+ articles (85k in Hebrew)

2. 250+ languages

3. Free of charge, free of advertising

4. Free to reuse and redistribute

5. Freely editable

Wikipedia, the basics

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Open source: maximizes progress through cooperationFree licence: prevents restrictions to dissemination

Selection of children-safe Wikipedia contentdistributed in UK, Pakistan, SA

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Open source: maximizes progress through cooperationFree licence: prevents restrictions to dissemination

English Wikipedia contentdistributed on the One Laptop Per Child project

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Open source: maximizes progress through cooperationFree licence: prevents restrictions to dissemination

Offline version of Wikipedia distributed in Africa

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Reusing content on commercial websites

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Hosting the Websites(WMF only)

Facilitatingcollection of content

Facilitatingcollection of content

Developingthe software

Strengtheningcommunity

- Scanning old books- Liberating copyrighted content …

-Accessibility-Print-on-demand-Video collaboration…

-Annual conference-Wikipedia Academy …

- digitization projects- participation to events

Foundation Wikimedia & Wikimedia Chapters missions

Facilitatingdissemination of content

- CD/DVD/USB Key- Cell phones- OLPC…

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• Primarily on Gift Economy

• But also on the sale of services

• And on brand licencing

A financial strategy based…

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Thank you for your generosity !

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Global trends

• Production of resources for companies

• Decentralized, hands off attitude works

• Impact on reputation

Implications of WP on companies

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Global trends

• Open doors attract members of the global talent pool

• Creation (or re-creation of tribes)

• Open systems make bounderies porous to external ideas

• Openness allows to share successes with others

• Community united by goals, rules and values

• An economy based on hope and trust

Global trends - enterprise 2.0

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Developing sustainable models where…

Creators can make a livingDissemination and remix of works is facilitated

Access to knowledge and education to all is made possible

Emergence of new creators is facilitated