Thursday, September 9, 2010

Clay Shirky - Cognitive surplus

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/896

the spare time that people around the world have to get involved in activiites - 1 trillion hours/year.
how do we tap into the civic side of this; the interest people have in creating and getting involved in things that will benefit all of society. communal benefit - pictures of cute cats.  Civic - an open source code (eg Ushahidi)  that can crisis map information for audiences anywhere on earth.  eg; Haitian earthquake; Mexican elections, Washington DC snow....

if we want to change the world, there IS an audience and willingenss: we just need to ask for it and choose a relavent topic.

link to leadership. 

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