Name: 【TED】Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world (Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world)
Uploaded: 2016-10-23T05:32:41.000Z
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when there was a disputed presidential election,

and in the immediate aftermath of that election,

there was an outbreak of ethnic violence.

And there was a lawyer in Nairobi, Ory Okolloh --

who some of you may know from her TEDTalk --

And shortly after the election and the outbreak of violence,

commentary as part of the media landscape

to being a critical part of the media landscape

in trying to understand where the violence was.

more information about what was going on.

and Okolloh would collate them. She would post them.

If only there was a way to automate this."

held their hands up and said, "We could do that,"

is a very simple way of taking reports from the field,

whether it's from the web or, critically,

That's all it is, but that's all that's needed

because what it does is it takes the tacit information

but no one person knows what everyone knows --

And enough people looked at it and found it valuable enough

that the programmers who created Ushahidi

decided they were going to make it open source

It's been deployed in Washington D.C. to track snow cleanup.

And it's been used most famously in Haiti

you can see that the number of deployments in Ushahidi

What Okolloh did would not have been possible

relies on both of those things being true.

That is the resource that I'm talking about.

to volunteer and to contribute and collaborate

Cognitive surplus is made up of two things.

The first, obviously, is the world's free time and talents.

Now, that free time existed in the 20th century,

but we didn't get Ushahidi in the 20th century.

That's the second half of cognitive surplus.

But now that we've been given media tools --

the Internet, mobile phones -- that let us do more than consume,

what we're seeing is that people weren't couch potatoes

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