1. Using Social
Technology to
Accelerate Social
Change
@nilanp

2. Nilan Peiris
Disruptive Social
Technologist
CMTO - HolidayExtras.com
Passionate about using
techology to enable change

3. Oxfam...
... seeks to work with others to
alleviate poverty and suffering
Through:
✦ Crisis Relief
✦ International Development
✦ Campaigning for policy change

4. Given the events in North Africa -
where and how could Oxfam invest in
enabling disruptive social
technologies to accelerate change ?

5. What happened in North Africa ?
How did this enable regime change ?

6. How did this enable regime change ?

7. How did this enable regime change ?
Witness

8. Supernode
How did this enable regime change ?

9. How did this enable regime change ?
Bridge

10. How did this enable regime change ?
Interpretation

11. How did this enable regime change ?
Selection

12. How did this enable regime change ?
Mutation

13. How did this enable regime change ?
Amplification

14. How did this enable regime change ?
Activation

15. How did this enable regime change ?
Collective

16. What are the technical enablers ?

17. CREATE TRANSMIT MUTATE

18. CREATE TRANSMIT MUTATE
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19. What matters from a human perspective ?
•Visual
•Redundant network
•$0 distribution
•Uncensored
•Amplification of weak link

20. Why is this important ?
In countries with no credible
opposition, no counterbalance to
leadership, no free press
A platform for the distribution and
evolution of ideas is a catalyst
for change

21. Next steps
1) Understand and evolve data
2) Layer on development thinking
3) Evolve platform

22. Ideas to Evolve platform
1)Secure platform -
e.g.encrypt tweets
2)Store distributed media -
e.g.torrent file sharing on
twitter
3)Evolve leadership and
collective decision making
structures e.g. use open
source, creative commons
models

23. Contributors:
@joe_stump - founder of digg.com
@phil_blue - aid worker - liberia
@jim_webber - Chief Scientist Neo4J
@tr_baldwin - head of ecommerce OUP
@laia_collazos - head of digital TES
@the_kensta - Data Scientist - Holidayextras.com