2. 2/ YOUR IDEAS HERE
Joost Beundermann
Architecture 00
Annmarie Taylor
@CommonFutrs
Quentin Johns
@QuentinJohns1
Alice Osbourne
@AliceOsbourne
Gareth Wall
@grthwll
Simon Gough
@redfront
Ed Dowding
@eddowding
Fred Garnett
@fredgarnett
David Bovill
@fortyfoxes
11. “There is every chance this
technology could transform the
way food networks operate.”
HRH Prince Charles
introducing FoodTrade
‘Sustainable Regional Food’ May 2013
35. Liquid Democracy is the combination of
networks and democracy.
It is a term or metaphor, designed to
capture a more fluid and responsive
participation of citizens in the democratic
process.
36. Votes flow through networks of trusted
relationships.
In this way a range of types of “delegation” can be
created, from forms we are familiar with such as
conventional representative democracy, to fluid
parties and direct democracy.
49. create new voluntary organisation
! set the name of new organisation to "Open Democracy Kickstarter"
! set the aims of this organisation to url "www.liquiddemocracy.org/aims.html"
! set the voting style to "liquid"
! ! set the dispute resolution style to "acas"
! ! set the voting period to 3 days
! modify new membership policy
! ! set the voting style for new members to "no objections"
! set the accounting transparency to "full"
! add member "david@parliamentofthings.org"
! invite members "smari@liquiddemocracy.org, sanki, indy, @fortyfoxes"
Domain Specific
Legal Language
50. The Real Problems
1. Institution won’t invest in software
2. No users
• The software is easy
• Requires good design team
• Real budget
• User Aquisition is harder, and more expensive
51.
52. What if?
• !7.5 billion
• Democratic infrastructure
• Local engagement
• Global Crisis
• International Institutions
53. Good News
• We’ve found some money
• Open Democratic Backend
• Open Source Mobile framework
• Democracy Kickstarter
• Workshops starting August
54. Pilots
• SciTopia
• Pocket Parliament
• GameRaid
• Sunday Workshops starting August
• Register here - www.liquiddemocracy.org
62. Build upon the fine grain of long established local institutions,
harness the can-do and know-how of Tech City communities,
and translate that via a truly open infrastructure so that
innovation, services and growth can benefit everyone.
63. In short, it should...
Provide access to 100% open, symmetrical
and hybrid networking hardware
Encourage and enable civic engineering
Stimulate participation in MOOCs juxtaposed
broad-ranging Community Publishing initiatives
– knowledge consumption as well as production
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2
3
64. The plan...
Plan A – a bespoke Local Area Network
Plan B – a community owned and managed WAN for Tech City
Plan C – affordable WWW access for all founded upon EITHER
- collaborative consumption principles (shared corporate connections)
- an open ISP capable of wholesale backbone access, group hardware
purchasing and installation support on a social enterprise footing -
subsidised by corporate SR contributions
65.
66. WHO?WHERE?WHEN?
How will we know if it succeeds?
Is it capable of generating a social,
economic and environmental return?
68. ...its scale and openness should only be limited
by the ambition of its many civic engineers.
69. Together, we are supporting the creation of digital assets
and enterprises being developed by and for communities
across the UK. with....
Visit www.OurDigitalCommunity.org
We are prototyping community publishing with support from....
73. !"#$"#!"%&'"&%#()!"#$"%##
An Internet of People British Council Lecture 2011
@BenHammersley said that
“network society cannot be born”
Because people who grew up in
hierarchies are still in power
74. !"#$%#$&'(#&'#!"#$%&'()#*+#
Summerhill School; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerhill_School
Digital Disruption; http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/we-are-digital
We need open participatory education like
Summerhill school and the Democratic schools
movement. But only 53 democratic schools exist
in Europe
Disruptive Collaboration is here, the web is a
platform, users-generate content, mobile phone
cameras document everything, new technology is
sold as being creative, but it hasn’t disrupted
educational institutions.
75. !"#!"#!$$%&#'$()#&*+,-*.#/0*&1#
Kondratieff; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kondratiev_wave
Next 2021; http://heutagogicarchive.wordpress.com/next-2021/
NIACE were formed in the UK calling for
education for all, from which educational
broadcasting, with the BBC, emerged
Kondratieff in Moscow, wrote about long-wave
economic change (50 years) based around
‘meta-technologies’ Our meta-technology, the
micro-processor is due to reach its
transformational peak in 2021
76. !"#!$!"#$%&"'()*"(&+$,%-,%$"..%,(
Intel 4004; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_4004
Convergence; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_convergence/
Intel 4004 was a new meta-technology.
Earlier meta-technologies had evolved into new
analogue networks; rail, road, air, telephone, radio
with their own system ‘mission’
Digital technologies however can also replace
earlier analogue technologies, and enable
technological convergence. Convergence is far
more socially transformational as it can disrupt
existing economic patterns built around old
technologies
77. !"#!""#$$%&'(")#(*+&$#,%&")+*#
Royal Society; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society
Creative Commons; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons
The Royal Society was formed in the UK
beginning the movement for open publishing.
The standard by which scientific thought has
(mostly) developed, egos aside, ever since.
Creative Commons applied the idea of open
publishing to the copyright era in 2001, enabling
web-based sharing of content, like this
presentation
78. !"#!""#$$%&#!"$&'"&$#()*+&$,#
Internet Society; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Society
World Wide Web; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web
The Internet Society wrote its mission
“We envision a future in which people in all parts of
the world can use the Internet to improve their quality
of life, because standards, technologies, business
practices, and government policies sustain an open
and universally accessible platform for innovation,
creativity, and economic opportunity”
As Ted Nelson had predicted with Xanadu (1960) Tim
Berners-Lee finally invented the World Wide Web &
digital convergence became possible online.
80. !"#$%&'%#(%)!"#$"$%&"'()*$
Open Ed Resources; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources
UNESCO Paris July 2012 Declaration NLN.AC.UK
Education got excited (kind of), David Wiley defined
Open Content (1998) MIT launched Open Course
Ware (2001) an open version of the 2000 UK FERL
‘learning objects’ project (now open www.nln.ac.uk)
UNESCO defined OER;
Open Education
Resources in 2002 and
updated that with the
UNESCO Paris July 2012
Declaration
81. !"#!""#$$%#&'(")*+,#!"#$%&#'($%
Open Learn; http://www.open.edu/openlearn/
Learner-Generated Contexts http://heutagogicarchive.wordpress.com/
The Open University opened first Open Education
Resource based project at a British University, based
on its historic distance learning model (1964)
Learner-Generated Contexts Group launched its
#Open “Pedagogy” Open Context Model of Learning
a post-Web 2.0 Pedagogy (PAH!) based on the PAH
Continuum
“The most exciting thing happening in England” –
John Seeley Brown
82.
83. !"#$%&%'"()!"#$%&'$#%&()*!
Learning is Emergent; http://heutagogicarchive.wordpress.com/
Emergent Learning Model http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/fg-ouemergenttable
Learning is Emergent not institutionalised! We need
to design for emergence and create tools to support
that in a wiki-based collaborative world
Emergent Learning Model rethinks learning as
i. Social Processes not classrooms
ii. Content Creation or Curation not textbooks
iii. Quality Assurance not high-stakes assessment
We needed to build new learning exemplars of ‘non-
linear dynamic systems’
84. !"#$%&'(!"#$%&%'()*"%(+&,-!
Ambient Learning City; http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/ambientlearningcity
Aggregate then Curate http://mosialong.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/aggregate-then-curate/
Being Insanely Ambitious we decided to test
emergent learning by turning Manchester into an
open Ambient Learning City. Cities have many more
learning contexts than a single classroom, so we
decided to test them with MOSI-ALONG
MOSI Ambient Learning Open Network Group
Aggregate then Curate our new #socialmedia
participation model creating structured ways for
people to inter-act with their city; even during riots (A
History of Manchester in 100 objects)
86. !"##$%&'!"#$%#&'()(*$+,--,(.!
Learning is a full-time Occupation; http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/
Sukey Data; http://www.opensukey.org/about/
Then came Occupy UCL I gave a talk on lessons I
had learnt and challenged them to create a Learning
Commons at UCL. Sukey Data was hacked together.
Learning is a full time Occupation was written for
Learning without Frontiers
“social-space time / occupation as learning”
I was then asked to help create a Masters course for
graduating UCL students
87. !"##$!"#$!"#$%&'#()*%&'(#)**
The University Project; http://univproject.pbworks.com/
WikiQuals workshop; http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/wikiquals
The University Project was convened by Dougald
Hine+ at Hub Westminster, over a long weekend in
October 2011, to look at various alt.Uni projects.
Community of Scholars was the common theme.
The action point was “solve the problem…
that annoys you most” (Philippa Young)
Accreditation of learning annoyed us most
WikiQuals was born
91. !"#"!"#$%!"!"#$$%&'%&'()'
Learning not Education
Liminal not Institutionalised
Bio-diversity not Monoculture
Learner-centric not Student-centred
Learner-generated not Course-defined
Community as Curriculum not Syllabus defined
Community of Sqolars not Community of Practice
Personal Learning Networks not Content-delivery
Quality Assured not Quality Controlled
Affinity not Supervision
Emergent not Linear
Trust the learner to be themselves;
Identity
92. !"#"!"#$%!!"#$%&#'($)$*%&'+$
Presented to the Open Institute
July 8 2013 by @fredgarnett
Any University can open a WikiQuals Open Learning Lab. It is
a platform for learning that a) leverages content abundance,
allows b) learner-generated contexts & purpose c) enables
emergent & innovative learning behaviours.
Needs just;
1 Space a room one afternoon a week (or more)
2 Access to Learning Resources (& estates)
3 Affinity Partners discuss & guide, create affinity groups
Any institution can open a WikiQuals Open Learning Lab it is
about providing a generative platform
Please help WikiQuals grow up and leave home…