Personal Democracy Forum 2008
Note by Robin Barrett:
The glass is half full or half empty. That's the wrong question. It should be how much water do I want? How much do I need.
Everything today is very pessimistic.
Talks about all the various things that are "pessimistic". We're in a place of problems. Problems though, are opportunities.
The cost benefit analysis are made daily as businesses and individuals.
We're trying to cut costs in an old fashioned way. What can I cut out?
When you open things up to open source, letting people in, you get a better benefit and you don't have to pay the costs all alone. (Closed proprietary systems. We don't have to own the whole thing.)
Scarcity wouldn't exist if we didn't think we need to own everything.
Web2.0 concepts can be brought into the material world.
goloco.org using social networks to get at ride sharing and payment systems.
How can we multipurpose devices for the road? How we can take physical matter and share it?
open up EZ Pass devices and create mobile wireless network
Find excess capacity
create platforms that others can share and invest in.
Gilberto Gil
Traditional politics is failing in democracy. The conversion with technology into politics is encouraging.
New political movements don't come from traditional movements. They operate outside the electorial system. People are more eager to engage in politics in a new collective way.
Gilberto Gil coins a new term: "peeracy"=peer-to-peer culture. You heard it here first. the internet is creating a completely peaceful revolution. Contemporary political movements come from the bottom up, and technology enables them.
innovations in technology will require us to change how we do everything
We have to be careful of how it is used, because it can backfire on us.
Digital distribution of Intellectual Property is a good thing. Yet, it is called piracy by those in power taking apart old business models is not piracy.
If we want to guarantee and an emancipated existence in cyberspace, then we need to think different.
Challenge update regulatory framework b/c digital culture - impressive, no one in guv here as coherent on this.
Peericy - peer to peer politics (play on piracy)
Van Jones
Long distance runner and political organizer. He watches the watchers.
He helped folks in Oakland police the police by handing residents cameras. Green for all (new organization) - http://www.greenforall.org/
environment and economy are 2 problems we cannot unsubscribe or opt-out of.
Katrina made him really rethink his position on Global Warming.
The economy is in the toilet and is starting to swirl. We are in it.
Stagflation is the worst thing that could possibly happen to an economy. Jobs disappear, and inflation goes up.
How do we grow the economy without baking the plant? reference to oil crisis) We can combat global warming, and this will create lots of jobs, and really stimulate the economy. There is an economic future that includes green solutions. It solves both problems in tandem.
mutual solution: bulid a green economy, weatherize buildings, solar power, plant trees, windfarms
What is standing in the way - the people who can create that future don't know each other and don't see each other as assets. They have no way to coordinate each other because they don't know each other.
biggest obstacle is that all the people who could make it happen don't know each other
Restart economy, create jobs, be energy independent. Missing element, Van Jones says, is collaboration and folks knowing each other
We're getting really good at gathering the data, but how do we clarify it and utilize it, aggregate the wisdom that we have to create more social capital. So that the boots on the ground can find each other and benefit from each other's combined energies and skills. all the parts are there to save the world, but there's nothing there to link the right people together.
we can aggregate the wisdom — not just the data.
Everything today is very pessimistic.
Talks about all the various things that are "pessimistic". We're in a place of problems. Problems though, are opportunities.
The cost benefit analysis are made daily as businesses and individuals.
We're trying to cut costs in an old fashioned way. What can I cut out?
When you open things up to open source, letting people in, you get a better benefit and you don't have to pay the costs all alone. (Closed proprietary systems. We don't have to own the whole thing.)
Scarcity wouldn't exist if we didn't think we need to own everything.
Web2.0 concepts can be brought into the material world.
goloco.org using social networks to get at ride sharing and payment systems.
How can we multipurpose devices for the road? How we can take physical matter and share it?
open up EZ Pass devices and create mobile wireless network
Find excess capacity
create platforms that others can share and invest in.
Gilberto Gil
Traditional politics is failing in democracy. The conversion with technology into politics is encouraging.
New political movements don't come from traditional movements. They operate outside the electorial system. People are more eager to engage in politics in a new collective way.
Gilberto Gil coins a new term: "peeracy"=peer-to-peer culture. You heard it here first. the internet is creating a completely peaceful revolution. Contemporary political movements come from the bottom up, and technology enables them.
innovations in technology will require us to change how we do everything
We have to be careful of how it is used, because it can backfire on us.
Digital distribution of Intellectual Property is a good thing. Yet, it is called piracy by those in power taking apart old business models is not piracy.
If we want to guarantee and an emancipated existence in cyberspace, then we need to think different.
Challenge update regulatory framework b/c digital culture - impressive, no one in guv here as coherent on this.
Peericy - peer to peer politics (play on piracy)
Van Jones
Long distance runner and political organizer. He watches the watchers.
He helped folks in Oakland police the police by handing residents cameras. Green for all (new organization) - http://www.greenforall.org/
environment and economy are 2 problems we cannot unsubscribe or opt-out of.
Katrina made him really rethink his position on Global Warming.
The economy is in the toilet and is starting to swirl. We are in it.
Stagflation is the worst thing that could possibly happen to an economy. Jobs disappear, and inflation goes up.
How do we grow the economy without baking the plant? reference to oil crisis) We can combat global warming, and this will create lots of jobs, and really stimulate the economy. There is an economic future that includes green solutions. It solves both problems in tandem.
mutual solution: bulid a green economy, weatherize buildings, solar power, plant trees, windfarms
What is standing in the way - the people who can create that future don't know each other and don't see each other as assets. They have no way to coordinate each other because they don't know each other.
biggest obstacle is that all the people who could make it happen don't know each other
Restart economy, create jobs, be energy independent. Missing element, Van Jones says, is collaboration and folks knowing each other
We're getting really good at gathering the data, but how do we clarify it and utilize it, aggregate the wisdom that we have to create more social capital. So that the boots on the ground can find each other and benefit from each other's combined energies and skills. all the parts are there to save the world, but there's nothing there to link the right people together.
we can aggregate the wisdom — not just the data.
