Knowledge tools for our age And yes, there is a point to this st ory: Communication! views Why, how and what for our new (UNOSD) website views

Changes to the knowledge landscape (Jonas Sachs) Broadcast era: –Survival of the richest –Transmission is one to many –Ideas are proprietary Digitoral era: –Survival of the fittest (ideas) –Transmission is a web –Everyone owns ideas

So what? Networks (all senses) are important Microcontent is important (“is your goal tw eetable?”) Stories, short movies, blog posts… Tags, the intelligence of crowds / tribes, ga mification… How people use information is new i nformation (digg, del.icio.us,…) Aggregators - Do what you do best, link t o the rest (WWGD – Jeff Jarvis)

Sidetrack: Ambiguity: Definition of a forest, youth… 안녕하세요 你好 Guten Tag! Hujambo! สวัสดี Привіт नमस्ते گڈ مارننگ! Szervusz! Xin chào! Сайн байна уу! ¡Hola! “even a small group of experts with the same working language found unambiguous communication challenging. Ambiguities, rooted in philosophical, disciplinary, cultural or linguistic differences hindered communication, making it frustratingly ineffective until an explicit effort was made to precisely define key terms. Terminology is therefore an important issue for SDG development.”

The Web is a terribly ambiguous pl ace, but… Semantic Web, data model (ontology, taxonomy) Top-down (attempt t o remove ambiguity) Push Folksonomy Example: tags for images or other unstructured data Bottom-up Pull Clay Shirky, David Weinberger

CoP: some successful example s Guilds in World of Warcraft Hobby related (photo, pets, you na me it) Slashdot.org Oracle, Microsoft nurtured Academic Command.com (“Too big to know” - DW) “easy” “difficult”

CoP: the “why should I” question Incentives –Large population with clear focus, awareness –Some type of reward –Freedom of speech (no blame culture) Obstacles –Political issues / opinions –Chicken and egg (CD/CD player) Catalyzers: platform (not sufficient), seeding

sdtweb.org: networks & links

What’s next? Global data model (ontology) + folksonomy More complex networks: actors, events, CB, artefacts, communication and marketing More linking and aggregating But also: what do YOU think?

What do YOU (gp,c,f) think? It’s all about YOU! What type of information, if any, are you m issing? If it’s not information that you are missing, what are you missing? What feedback do you have on our ide as and site? What would you add to an in teresting SD site? Survey to come GP Contributors Facilitators