Technology driven social change.key

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 ?

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Witness

How did this enable regime change ?Supernode

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Bridge

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Interpretation

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Selection

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Mutation

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Amplification

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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