Technologies for sharing technologies are NOT enough silvio lemos meira silvio@cesar.org.br.

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technologies for sharing

technologies are

enough

silvio lemos meirawww.meira.com

silvio@cesar.org.br

using tech for sharing {whatever} is a complex cultural experience

should we define culture?... and

conversations?[culture is]…such information as is capable of transmission from individual to individual.

Boyd & Richerson {1985}

conversations are situated {context based} exchanges of information among individuals

and there comes the internet...

http://enacit1.epfl.ch/internet.gif

and the newtork society...

castells: the netsoc...IS: from www.tidec.org/geovisions/Castells.html

An informational economy in which sources of productivity and competitiveness for firms, regions, countries depend, more than ever, on knowledge, information and the technology of their processing, including the technology of management and the management of technology.

A global economy that is not the same as a world economy, and is a new reality. At its core it has strategically dominant activities which have the potential of working as a unit in real time on a planetary scale.

It reaches out to whole planet but does not include whole planet and excludes the majority in an uneven geography...

The network enterprise is a new form of organisation characteristic of economic activity, but gradually extending its logic to other domains and organisations. It is a network made either from firms or segments of firms, or from internal segmentation of firms.

The transformation of work and employment; the flexi-workers... no major surge in unemployment... but... great anxiety and discontent about work. Power relations... shifted in favour of capital with much downsizing, subcontracting and networking of labour, inducing flexibility and individualisation of contractual arrangements.

Social polarisation and social

exclusion... processes of globalisation, business networking and individualisation of labour... weaken... organisations and institutions that represented & protected workers...

The culture of real virtuality...the emergence of a similar pattern of networking, flexibility and ephemeral symbolic communication in a culture organised around the electronic media. The media are extremely diverse and send targeted messages to specific segments of audiences and to specific moods of audiences.

Politics now needs to occupy media space if actors and ideas are not to be marginalised. The {NET} media has become the essential space of politics...

Timeless time... time and space... meanings and manifestations in social practice evolve throughout histories and across cultures. The network society is organised around new forms of time and space: timeless time... and... the space of flows

The space of flows is the material organisation of time-sharing social practices that work through flows. The space of places continues to be the predominant space of experience.

...In the Network Society a fundamental form of social

domination is the prevalence of the logic of the space of

flows over the space of places...

HOW it works, really?{castells, in the trilogy}

"Social movements in the Information Age

are essentially mobilized around cultural

values. The struggle to change the codes of

meaning in the institutions and practice of

the society is the essential struggle in the

process of social change in the new historical

context, movements to seize the

power of the minds, not state power."

{castells, explaining...}http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Castells/castells-con5.html

In a so-called information society, minds

are not only the most important

economic asset -companies with minds

make money; companies with money and no

minds lose the money- it's the same thing in

everything. The networks are not

programmed by technology;

technological tools are

programmed by minds.

{castells, more explanation...}http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Castells/castells-con5.html

So the human consciousness [is the source],

because everything now depends on

our ability to generate

knowledge and process

information in every domain and

activity. Knowledge and information are

cognitive qualities from the human mind.

{castells, more explanation...}http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Castells/castells-con5.html

Yes, human minds usually are connected to bodies, which means that you have to take into consideration the overall system of human existence, social services support, etc. But fundamentally, the human mind has always been, but more than ever now, the source of wealth, power, and control over everything.

shouldwe, then...

why would we SHARE things?

SHARE knowledge? gurteen,

ideas, processes, information are taking a growing share of global output & trade.the only sustainable competitive advantage is continuous innovation.turn over of staff: people don't take a job for life any more. memory leaks all the time...dispersed organisations do not know what they know.accelerating change - technology, business and social. all above happens really fast.

1999why?

By sharing your K, you gain more then you lose.

Sharing K is a synergistic process – you get

more out than you put in. If I share a product

idea or a way of doing things with another person

– then just the act of putting my idea into words

or writing will help me shape and improve that

idea. If I get into dialogue with the other person

then I'll benefit from their K, from their unique

insights and improve my ideas further.

1999ALL?

...people object to sharing as they feel that

others will steal their ideas and reap the

rewards rightly theirs. This is a fallacy.

Knowledge sharing isn't about blindly

sharing everything; giving away your ideas;

being politically naïve; or being open about

absolutely everything. You still need to

exercise judgement...

the world of tech {and sharing?}

institutions share...

so do people...

really sharing...

sometimes... you do not behave...

{most} times you do!

and have an impact:: noblat:: brazil::

and it is everywhere: email alerts...

{large} group knowledge sharing

does it work? sometimes...

community weblog: EU SW patents?!

sharing MOVEMENT: demo stuff!

two hours later... 269 more sites...

this morning... ONE THOUSAND more

communities...

sharing... MOVEMENTS!!!

it can go far and wide: protests!...

point:developing TECH for SHARING...

we are interested in SHARINGBUT ALSO IN the technologies that WILL BE USED for SHARINGwe want to PLAY A ROLE in the...

developmentdeploymentsharing, marketing, sales

of technology assets of all sorts...

even more so IF the are ICT related

a.m.i.g.o.sAMbiente para Interação de GrupOs Sociais

An environMent for socIal Group interactiOnS

why open source?...

shouldn’t we be ALWAYS talking about open knowledge?...of course yes!

BUTpatentsmarketslegal systemspoor knowledge managementDOMINANT MEMEs!...