Personal Democracy Forum 2008
Session: Deploying the Cognitive Surplus: How Social Technology Can Help Solve Global Problems
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| Speakers: |
Robin Chase Gilberto Gil Van Jones |
| Date: | Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM |
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| Location: | Rose Theater |
Notes
- Salim Ismailsalim
on Deploying the Cognitive Surplus: How Social Technology Can Help Solve Global Problems:
ROBIN CHASE: Where can we find excess capacity and create a platform we can all share and invest in...
Hopefully, this will lead to less 'stuff'
GILBERTO GIL (minister of culture: Brazil)
Traditional politics is failing in adapting to current culture
New contemporary political movements don't come fr ... - Ms, Kathy Gill
on Deploying the Cognitive Surplus: How Social Technology Can Help Solve Global Problems:
Robin
collaborative production
image: glass of water
it's not half-full or half-empty - wrong question
it's how much water do you want and how much do you need
scarcity/abundance
aging infrastructure - must upgrade & build new infrastructure
financial burden based on 1993 gas tax
congestion
glob ... - Robin Barrett
on Deploying the Cognitive Surplus: How Social Technology Can Help Solve Global Problems:
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 b ... - Vanessa Scanfeld
on Deploying the Cognitive Surplus: How Social Technology Can Help Solve Global Problems:
Van Jones. green for all.
bad news about 2 problems that we can't opt out of: environment and economy. solution - many can be doing other things, make more money. but trying to figure out how to fix country.
1. environment - hansen - said really at the last moment. before thought just bad fo ... - David GalielDavid_Galiel
on Deploying the Cognitive Surplus: How Social Technology Can Help Solve Global Problems:
Robin starts with review of problems and how we are still trying to solve them in the old fashioned way, working from a worldview of scarcity rather than abundance.
Scarcity:
Assets closed & proprietary
Costs born alone
Innovation & content internally generated
1. find excess capacity
2. cr ... - Mr Paul Downey on Deploying the Cognitive Surplus: How Social Technology Can Help Solve Global Problems: mesh networks using cars is an amazing idea, I'm sure JP would approve of her "Architecture of Abundance".
- Mr. Jordan Raynor on Deploying the Cognitive Surplus: How Social Technology Can Help Solve Global Problems: Robin Chase - For the last 8 years, Robin Chase has been working on ways to efficiently use scarce and expensive resources. She is founder and former CEO of ZipCar (car-sharing), founder and CEO of GoLoco (ride-sharing), and consults on wireless communication technologies to state and national govern ...
- Ken Laureys
on Deploying the Cognitive Surplus: How Social Technology Can Help Solve Global Problems:
Deploying the Cognitive Surplus: How Social Technology Can Help Solve Global Problems
Bio: For the last 8 years, Robin Chase has been working on ways to efficiently use scarce and expensive resources. She is founder and former CEO of ZipCar (car-sharing), founder and CEO of GoLoco (ride-sharing), and ... - Thirsy Mind
on Deploying the Cognitive Surplus: How Social Technology Can Help Solve Global Problems:
Robyn Chase
Zipcar Co-founder
For entrepreneurs, problems are opportunities. All these problems based on the end of abundance – global warming, congestion, infrastructure.
Cost-benefit analysis. We try to reduce costs. We think of ownership – everything we use has to be owned. Car, pools, proprie ...
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