Can Web 2.0 Help Fight Drug Resistance? Networked solutions to network problems

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Dave WitzelMarch 7, 2008

Can Web 2.0 Help Fight Drug Resistance?Networked solutions to network problems

Overview

• Large scale collaboration• Data, data, data• Learning• Action• Getting Started

Linux operating system:30 mill lines of code

IBM invested $1B in 2001

Open Source Software: Big Business

Open Source Software: Apache Web Server

Active Websites

wikipedia

Wikipedia Getting More Popular9th most popular website in the world

Wikipedia

• 2,267,993 articles in the English Wikipedia

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Data, Data, Data

Data: Creation

Knowledge – its content and its organization – is becoming a social act.

David WeinbergerEverything is Miscellaneous

Click Work: Mars Crater Mapping

reCaptcha

• Captcha: 60 m/day, 150,000 hours of labor• reCaptcha: digitize books from Internet

Archive

Labor: ESP Game

Data: USGS Citizen Earthquake Reporting

Earthquake reported:• 26 miles N of Greer,

South Carolina• Dec 7 2007• 3.1 magnitude• 562 reports

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

Audio Books, Created by Volunteers

Filtering & Evaluation: Patents

Peer to Patent Status

• 1,945 people have signed up to be reviewers

• have cited 173 instances of prior art

• 390 comments • on 35 applications.

Data: Management

• Freebase• Swivel• Graphwise• Google Spreadsheets

Data: Display

• Gapminder• Swivel• IBM’s Alphaworks• Mash-ups

many eyes

Health Map

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Learning

Innocentive: R&D Marketplace

Ashoka Changemakers.net- Open-sourcing Social Solutions

Markets as indicators: The Foresight Exchange Prediction Market

Cooperation: Collaborative Drug Discovery

…enables scientists to archive, mine, and collaborate to more effectively develop new drug candidates for commercial and humanitarian markets.

Conservation Commons

AIMING to establish a global partnership within the conservation community for the sharing of data, information, and knowledge in order to accelerate action in support of the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and the natural world;

Conservation Commons

• Open GIS & remote sensing • Institutional policies and guidelines for

implementing open access • Tools, protocols, and standards • Publications, grey literature, and conservation

knowledge

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Action

Frozen Grand Central

• YouTube

Ice Cream Revolution – Belarus, May 2006

Ice Cream Revolution – Belarus, May 2006

Getting Started

Who is?

• Uploading photos• Reading blogs• Using a feed reader• Blogging

– Commenting on blogs?

• Sharing bookmarks

Don’t wait!

Announce yourself: Start a Blog

Read other’s blogs: Use an RSS Feed Reader

Share Bookmarks: Use Del.icio.us

Create shared tags, use them everywhere

Find Each other: Join linked-in

Twitter. Really.

Readings

• David Weinberger, Everything is Miscellaneous, 2007http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/

• Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody,http://shirky.com/herecomeseverybody/

• Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networkshttp://www.benkler.org/wealth_of_networks/

• Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams, Wikinomicshttp://www.wikinomics.com/