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Dave WitzelMarch 7, 2008
Can Web 2.0 Help Fight Drug Resistance?Networked solutions to network problems
Overview
• Large scale collaboration• Data, data, data• Learning• Action• Getting Started
Linux operating system:30 mill lines of code
IBM invested $1B in 2001
Open Source Software: Big Business
Open Source Software: Apache Web Server
Active Websites
wikipedia
Wikipedia Getting More Popular9th most popular website in the world
Wikipedia
• 2,267,993 articles in the English Wikipedia
Presented by
Data, Data, Data
Data: Creation
Knowledge – its content and its organization – is becoming a social act.
David WeinbergerEverything is Miscellaneous
Click Work: Mars Crater Mapping
reCaptcha
• Captcha: 60 m/day, 150,000 hours of labor• reCaptcha: digitize books from Internet
Archive
Labor: ESP Game
Data: USGS Citizen Earthquake Reporting
Earthquake reported:• 26 miles N of Greer,
South Carolina• Dec 7 2007• 3.1 magnitude• 562 reports
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
Audio Books, Created by Volunteers
Filtering & Evaluation: Patents
Peer to Patent Status
• 1,945 people have signed up to be reviewers
• have cited 173 instances of prior art
• 390 comments • on 35 applications.
Data: Management
• Freebase• Swivel• Graphwise• Google Spreadsheets
Data: Display
• Gapminder• Swivel• IBM’s Alphaworks• Mash-ups
many eyes
Health Map
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Learning
Innocentive: R&D Marketplace
Ashoka Changemakers.net- Open-sourcing Social Solutions
Markets as indicators: The Foresight Exchange Prediction Market
Cooperation: Collaborative Drug Discovery
…enables scientists to archive, mine, and collaborate to more effectively develop new drug candidates for commercial and humanitarian markets.
Conservation Commons
AIMING to establish a global partnership within the conservation community for the sharing of data, information, and knowledge in order to accelerate action in support of the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and the natural world;
Conservation Commons
• Open GIS & remote sensing • Institutional policies and guidelines for
implementing open access • Tools, protocols, and standards • Publications, grey literature, and conservation
knowledge
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Action
Frozen Grand Central
• YouTube
Ice Cream Revolution – Belarus, May 2006
Ice Cream Revolution – Belarus, May 2006
Getting Started
Who is?
• Uploading photos• Reading blogs• Using a feed reader• Blogging
– Commenting on blogs?
• Sharing bookmarks
Don’t wait!
Announce yourself: Start a Blog
Read other’s blogs: Use an RSS Feed Reader
Share Bookmarks: Use Del.icio.us
Create shared tags, use them everywhere
Find Each other: Join linked-in
Twitter. Really.
Readings
• David Weinberger, Everything is Miscellaneous, 2007http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/
• Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody,http://shirky.com/herecomeseverybody/
• Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networkshttp://www.benkler.org/wealth_of_networks/
• Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams, Wikinomicshttp://www.wikinomics.com/