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Harnessing the power of connectedness

GLOBAL NETWORKS |LOCAL IMPACTS

We Live NY SummitMarch 25,2011Paul Treadwell

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� In the U.S. 79% of adults use the internet (as of May, 2010)

� Worldwide mobile phones = 5 bill ion +

� Facebook has over 500 mill ion active users

�More access, more information, more«

LIVING IN A CONNECTED WORLD.

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� Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have

opened access to new conten t and audiences across the

globe.

Geographic boundaries have become porous on the internet

Research, collaboration and cooperation are facilitated across

boundaries.

Your networks can be embodied, local, virtual and global

GLOBAL CONNECTIONS

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� Regardless of the virtual/embodied distinction, your social

identity is built on the 3R¶s:

LIVING IN MULTIPLE WORLDS

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� Seeding and cultivating your social iden tity helps establish:

Trust

Boundaries

Authority

Reciprocity

� With the goal of:

Using our reputation

To build relationships

To access resources

MANAGING THE ECOSYSTEM

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� A small circle of friends is always good, but

Expanding vision

Building new relationships

and

Discovering innovation

� Push at the comfortable edges of relationship.

� Asymmetries in your network represent learning nodes

You should know people you don¶t know

SEEKING ASYMMETRY

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� Social content opens the cycle of production and

consumption

Youtube, Wikipedia, etc have altered traditional patterns

� In social networks, contribution is the coin of the realm

� There is a, poten tially, democratizing of production and

consumption

� Is this a façade?

PRODUCERS AND CONSUMERS

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� Change and innovation rise from learning.

Social networks can provide:

Access and connections for informal learning

Testing grounds for new ideas

Peer learning and informal mentoring

SOCIAL NETWORKS AS LEARNING

NETWORKS

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� Vital communities, whether online or off, evolve

� Not every relationship is active, all the time

� As you interact you change

� This is a Good Thing.

EVERYTHING CHANGES

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� Beyond the personal, the technologies of social networking

can be used to reconnect with the world. (the real world)

� The power of connectedness is realized in our l ives, where

we live, work and play.

� This should not lead to schizophrenia (an online vs offl ine

identity)

� Tourism or «..? (It makes sense, rea lly«)

SOCIAL MEDIA ± TANGIBLE ACTION

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� The tools, and processes, of social networking online can be

brought to play in physical communities.

Participatory budgeting is one example

Community networks, community telecenters ± precursors to the

current web2.0 technologies

HARNESSING SOCIAL

TECHNOLOGIES FOR LOCAL IMPACT

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� Can we envision (do they already exist) face to face

communities that embrace the best o f web 2.0?

Peer production

Rapid innovation

Entrepreneurial

� How do we maintain the character of local communities

while engaging the global marketplace of ideas and

innovation?

WEB 2.0 COMMUNITIES?

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� From the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Provides templates, scorecards and instruction on assessing an

creating a plan of action to facilitate the development of ³stronger 

communities through information exchange.´

COMMUNITY INFORMATION TOOLKIT

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³LEARNING REGIONS´

From ³The role of ITCs in Facilitating Regional Development: Some

preliminary findings.´ Toland and Yoong, 2007

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� Pew Internet and American Life:

http://www.pewinternet.org/

� Community Information Toolk it

http://www.knightcomm.org/the-community-information-toolkit-version-1-

0/

� Toland, J. & Yoong,P. The Role of ICTs in faci litating

Regional Development:

http://www.ccnr.net/prato2007/archive/TolandYoongPratoRevised%2014

2%20.pdf 

REFERENCES AND LINKS

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