digital environments create the possibility for …
Looking at these two TED talks by Clay Shirky:
http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/clay_shirky_how_cellphones_twitter_facebook_can_make_history.html
We saw how digital environments create the possibility to avoid the tarditional structure of institutions. Now as the cost of including every submitter of information is essentially the same, all content can be included. Institutions would say that if they can get 80% of the content by employing only 1% of the people they will take just the 80% in order to pay the least money. In the new system, including everyone costs nothing. This is good because it means that if your information was in that 20% a traditional organisation wouldn’t include, then you still find your information.
This new way of working with people allows more and more innovative ways of solving problems to surface. The ease in which this can happen no longer means that the western world is the only innovator. In the second video you see that events happening in Africa with SMS and monitoring the polls, move on to America for their election, not the other way around.
