El proceso cooperativo

Empezar con el ejemplo de Digital Revolution




leadbeer. Dos conceptciones de la web

Charles 02.09.22 I think right from the beginning there are kind of two competing views about the web, ah, playing out, which still play out now. One is that the web is this home for collaboration, for sharing, for allowing information to be free, for
02.09.35 people being able to create things together in open platforms and sharing ideas and that's imbedded in the kind of geek/hippy culture of the Homebrew Computer Club, right at the start of all this in the 1970's. And then there's another, which is the kind of Bill Gates/Microsoft corporate view, which is wait a minute, how do you pay the mortgage? You know, you're sharing all this stuff for free, but who's putting the groceries on the table? Someone needs to pay for this stuff. And
02.10.03 that is still not really a question we've worked out, because even now, the newest creations of the web, the most glittering, Twitter, no one knows how it's going to make money - it's fantastic to do, but how do you actually make money out of it? And so this is this huge dilemma, that we've got this way of creating stuff, collaborative and open, which isn't really viable economically in
02.10.25 some ways and we're still trying to work out how we might make our livings out of it. And that's the way that we now live, in this world where we're caught between these two forces.
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Gina Bianchinni. Las redes sociales se están usando para el ocio pero la gente está aprendiendo a usarlas socialmente.

So fundamentally, again, social technologies are reflective of human nature, whether it's, you know, connecting you to the people that you know, or connecting you to people around the things that you care about. And when you look at it in that context, everything that people are doing in terms of learning how to connect with other people online, is towards a common goal. So whether that common goal is sharing news articles for fun, or, you know, entertaining themselves by listening to amazing music in the context of a artist fan site, or an artist website, or a MySpace page or a Facebook fan page. All of those skills can actually be used for anything, so we have-, we have a Ning network, the Pickens Plan, which is er here in the United States T. Boone Pickens, who was a-, has been a big oil entrepreneur over the years, is passionate about wind energy. Over 200,000 organisers across 91% of the congressional districts in the United States have come together in a social activism network and changed the course of wind energy policy in the United States. The same exact foundation, the same exact technology is being used for people to express themselves around their tricked-out cars and DUB pages, which is a social network name for people who love to trick out their cars. So as people are actually learning how to use social technologies..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/digitalrevolution/2009/11/rushes-sequences-gina-bianchin.shtml

Example: 2003 SARS crisis
An ideal example of the benefits of collaboration lies
in the 2003 Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
crisis. In March of that year, the World Health
Organization (WHO) launched a global effort to uncover
the source of SARS. The WHO asked 11 research
laboratories around the world to work together to locate
the virus. To facilitate the process, the WHO launched
a web site where it posted electron microscope images
of viruses, analyses and test results. This innovative
“collaborative multi-centre research project” was
overwhelmingly successful, allowing scientists to pinpoint
the source of SARS within a month. Yet, no single
country could lay claim to making this life-saving
discovery. Success came from an intensive, global
collaborative effort that set the tone for future complex
global challenges of this type.2