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=Introduction= | |||
* Excerpted from [[Motivation for the Contact Summit]], by Douglas Rushkoff: | |||
"Contact will seek to explore and realize the greater promise of social media to promote new forms of culture, commerce, collective action, and creativity. I'm inviting technologists, artists, activists, businesspeople, funders, and other stakeholders in the networked future, to come together to hatch new ideas, connect with new collaborators, and forge an ongoing community for innovating social media and beyond. | |||
From the development of a new non-hierarchical Internet to the implementation of alternative e-currencies, the prototyping of open source democracy to experiments in collective cultural expression, Contact will seek to initiate mechanisms that realize the true promise of the networking revolution. | |||
= | The first summit, to be held October 20, 2011 as a MeetupEverywhere and centered at the historic Angel Orensanz Center in New York City, will be a participatory festival for ideas and action, consisting primarily of meetings convened by attendees. Featured participants will deliver brief "provocations" on stage, sharing the greatest challenges they are facing in their particular fields. But their primary contribution to the day will be to join in the meetings convened by other participants, sharing their experience, insight, and even connections to help bring these ideas into reality." | ||
(http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-evolution-will-be-socialized) | |||
=Topics= | |||
'''TECHNOLOGY''' | |||
* Can we build an alternative Internet that can't be turned off? | |||
* Alternatives to top-down registries and corporate-controlled access | |||
'''BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS''' | |||
* New net-based currencies and transaction networks | |||
* Net-enabled Local Activism and Job Creation | |||
'''CULTURE''' | |||
* Arts networking initiatives | |||
* Decentralized social networking platforms | |||
'''GOVERNMENT''' | |||
* Proxy voting to expert friends | |||
* open source democracy | |||
* "Filter Bubbles" and how to prevent them | |||
'''MEANING''' | |||
* What Factors Facilitate Collective Intelligence? | |||
* The Reclamation of Public Space | |||
(http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-evolution-will-be-socialized) | |||
Revision as of 04:38, 10 February 2011
Introduction
- Excerpted from Motivation for the Contact Summit, by Douglas Rushkoff:
"Contact will seek to explore and realize the greater promise of social media to promote new forms of culture, commerce, collective action, and creativity. I'm inviting technologists, artists, activists, businesspeople, funders, and other stakeholders in the networked future, to come together to hatch new ideas, connect with new collaborators, and forge an ongoing community for innovating social media and beyond.
From the development of a new non-hierarchical Internet to the implementation of alternative e-currencies, the prototyping of open source democracy to experiments in collective cultural expression, Contact will seek to initiate mechanisms that realize the true promise of the networking revolution.
The first summit, to be held October 20, 2011 as a MeetupEverywhere and centered at the historic Angel Orensanz Center in New York City, will be a participatory festival for ideas and action, consisting primarily of meetings convened by attendees. Featured participants will deliver brief "provocations" on stage, sharing the greatest challenges they are facing in their particular fields. But their primary contribution to the day will be to join in the meetings convened by other participants, sharing their experience, insight, and even connections to help bring these ideas into reality." (http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-evolution-will-be-socialized)
Topics
TECHNOLOGY
* Can we build an alternative Internet that can't be turned off? * Alternatives to top-down registries and corporate-controlled access
BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
* New net-based currencies and transaction networks * Net-enabled Local Activism and Job Creation
CULTURE
* Arts networking initiatives * Decentralized social networking platforms
GOVERNMENT
* Proxy voting to expert friends * open source democracy * "Filter Bubbles" and how to prevent them
MEANING
* What Factors Facilitate Collective Intelligence? * The Reclamation of Public Space
(http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-evolution-will-be-socialized)