- The document discusses 3 observations about a potential European internet culture: 1) The first search engine was developed in Europe in 1895. 2) Information growth has accelerated dramatically over time and data sets are now growing faster than communication. 3) Principles of open access to knowledge, freedom of knowledge, and building a sharing culture could guide policies around vast data sets and networks today.

2. ”Free Flow of Knowledge”
- 3 observations-

3. -1-

4. A
European
Internet Culture?

5. The World’s First
Search Engine

6. European

7. Belgian

8. 1895

9. 400 000 items

10. 1500 queries/year

11. ”More than 50 results...”

12. ”Repertoire
Bibliographique
Universel”

16. Paul Otlet

17. 1934

20. A
European
Internet Culture?

21. a culture of
organizing and
sharing knowledge

23. a g l o b a l culture

24. /1

25. -2-

26. A tale of a policy shift

27. Communication Growth

28. 40% yearly growth

29. Information Growth

30. 2x

31. 1750-1900: 150 years

32. 1900-1950: 50 years

33. 1950-1960: 10 years

34. 1960-1992: 5 years

35. 2020

36. 73 days

37. today at least...

38. 60% yearly growth

39. information grows
faster than
communication

40. Shifting priorities

41. ICT

42. ICT

43. the age of vast data sets

45. ?

46. ”Knowledge is the genesis of things.
Their genetics form the basis of
prediction. From the past one can
deduce part of the future [...]”

47. ”predicting the present”

49. ...labour statistics...

50. ...housing prices...

51. ”space is the final frontier”

52. ”space is the final frontier”

53. data are the final frontier

54. otletian policy principles

55. (i) the access imperative

57. (ii) a freedom of knowledge

58. all knowledge

60. no, really, all!

62. (iii) build a sharing culture

64. ”harness the power of
government
procurement”

65. /2

66. -3-

67. The Future?

68. of...what?

71. ”Networks constitute the
fundamental pattern of
life, of all kinds of life.”

72. ”Networks became the most
efficient organizational forms as a
result of three major features of
networks [...]: flexibility,
scalability and survivability.”

73. the network test

74. is it flexible?

75. is it scalable?

76. does it help the net survive?

77. ?

80. the ultimate data set?

81. ”Closely consolidated and coordinated
in all of their parts and enriched by
duplicates of all private works wherever
undertaken, these collections will tend
progressively to constitute a permanent
and complete
representation of the entire world.”

82. /3