Networks and Politics A Presentation for

Olga Gil, Ph.D.December 4rd, 2012. Monthly Tertulia of theSpanish Fulbright Alumni Association

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I. Thinkers

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The Wealth of Networks

Power to the People A Moment of OpportunityRadical Reordering “Collective actions practices, …decentralized, that do not rely on the price system or the managerial structure of coordination” “The most convincing case for a fundamental change on how we understand the economy of society” --Lawrence Lessig

Yochai Benkler, Medialab Madrid 2010

@cognolab_beta

Networks & Politics

Arquitecture is control in Cyberspace: it is power to regulate behaviour in society. --Lawrence Lessig. An example is Facebook, reproducing the same structure (& induced also) we find in society. --Stephen Downs

Language is also control.

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@cognolab_beta

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@cognolab_beta

Politics and Networks…

Democracy…And what went wrong…?

•Individualism –attack on family, class…) made very difficult to engage people in politics•The end of the Cold War broke the social contract between elites and the citizen•Elite put of the control of voters•Democracies today depart from the egalitarian outcomes

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What the digital world has made to the USA today…?A positive view

Change in productive, leaership and relation models:

@NewUrbanMechs –new urban mechanics civic -- innovation focused on delivering transformative city services to Boston residents @CitizensConnect City of Boston´CitizenSourcing. Mayor´s 24 hours plan@Patrick_Brennan in Boston or @CoryBooker

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II. Makers --and in between

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  How … did TicWisdom came about?

People such as @piscitelli has inspired us from 2009 to 2011. And others such us @MadanRao @LRainiee @stevehargadon or

@zephoria were the first informed about the initiative. In Spain we counted on @alafuente @dreig and @jfreire among others… and

growing.

TicWisdom is now working for profit in !) Big Data Projects2) Developing Long Life Learning Programs Designed for Private International Firms at IBEX Index and Universities,3) On the Trends side, working for private firms and building bridges with with three universities at the moment

Besides, we are now over 20 people working under the LABs label

TicWisdom is committed to participate in society and devotes 20% of its time to support non-for-profit causes for two projects linking Enterpreneurship, Sustaninability and Sports for Kids on the one hand and Spain Global Branding on the other.

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Projects “in Between” @RedesyCambio

Together with Maria Luz Congosto @Congosto, Cecilia Gañán de Molina @CeciliaGanan, Ricardo García Vegas, Carlos Montes, Dolors Reig Hernendez @DReig, Jaime Ridriguez Martinez, Lourdes Soria and Llanos Montes @LlanosMontes and Jean Charles Blondeau @JeanCharles

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Firms, Institutions and Citizens in theNetworked Age

@OlgaG

olgagil@olgagil.es

12An example of a project in Between, thinkers and makers: @RedesyCambio…

@cognolab_beta

Where… did TicWisdom was Born

At Medialab-Prado, Madrid (http://medialab-prado.es)

Medialab-Prado is an international space oriented to the production, research, and broadcasting of digital culture. It is a space where art, science, technology and society merge

– a space where workshops, seminars, debates, meetings, concerts.... take place. Streaming is available for quarterly events so that #influence and #global participation are

possible. All the sessions are recorded and are openly available and free.Thank you Jean Charles @Jeancharles Julia @julajcandela and Yolanda @Tintaalsol, Jose,

Juan, Pascale Bang-Rouhet, @McGlaria, Marcos, Gabriel for your support those challenging-start days, and many others before and afterwards…

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@OlgaG @JeanCharles

II. Applied Thinking

How do networks empower institutions, citizens and firms?

And religion… @Pontifex

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COSTS@OlgaG

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COSTS@OlgaG

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REPUTATION

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INSTITUTIONS IN CIVIL SOCIETY

Foto: Siemens.com

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INSTITUTIONS IN CIVIL SOCIETY

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FIRMS

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PEOPLE

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correctphilippines.org/problems_of_presidentialism

PEOPLE AND … PARTIES

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IDEAS

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27846/

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CHANGEhttp://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27846/

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IDEAS

COSTSREPUTATIONNETWORKSFIRMSINSTITUTIONSPEOPLE

CHANGE

El ámbito de la reflexión de esta presentacion son los últimos cuarenta años, en los que hemos sido testigos de una gran revolución tecnológica. Esta revolución se basa en un cambio, el empoderamiento. Internet hace posible que la humanidad se comunique a gran escala de forma distribuida. Las redes de comunicación distribuída facilitan el empoderamiento del individuo y de la sociedad. Investigando científicamente las posibilidades novedosas que existen de modificar objetivos, prácticas, formas organizativas y valores sociales a través de las redes sociales, y cómo empoderan a las instituciones, al ciudadano, y las empresas, hemos llegado a conclusiones. El estudio se realiza desde las aportaciones teóricas de la ciencia política, y de manera secundaría, desde la sociología y la matemática…

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Hemos encontrado variables estructurales nuevas, que dependen de la tecnología distribuída y que afectan positivamente a la acción colectiva. Hemos visto tambien que los grandes detonantes del cambio son los cambios de valores, las nuevas ideas, la búsqueda de innovación, y diferenciación.

Por lo tanto, podemos hacer recomendaciones como:• La prospectiva sobre las nuevas ideas y sus aplicaciones, como las avanzadas por Joi Ito, director de Medialab en MIT, cuya visión es la de una tecnología que forme parte de la naturaleza, en lugar de intentar dominarla… a diferencia de lo hecho en revoluciones industriales anteriores. O centros como The Centre for Design and Geopolitics en San Diego, en http://designgeopolitics.org • Podemos hablar de mejores prácticas, prácticas nuevas y disruptivas.•Podemos establecer recomendaciones para el diseño de acciones colectivas.

IDEAS

COSTS

REPUTATION

NETWORKS

FIRMS

INSTITUTIONS

PEOPLE

CHANGE

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Networks and Politics

I. Thinkers II. Makers

Conclusions

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REFERENCES A Great Scientific Study, Bonobos ed. December 2012. Thanks to Dr. Rodrigo Sandoval

REFERENCES A great applied example, december 2012. Thanks to @Amaya_Flyabit

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Time 4 Your Questions

We invite you to contact us @TicWisdomOlga Gil - Founder and Director @olgag+34 609448309olgagil@olgagil.es

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Thank you very muchVisit us at www.TicWisdom.com

Olga Gil, Ph.D.Founder Author of the idea and design for this presentation

Jean-Charles Blondeau @jeancharlesLabs directorEducation. Moodle. Tech tools. Feeds specialist and Financial Planning

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