Globalization and the Globalization and the InternetInternet

How web 2.0 and crowdsourcing are expanding globalization

What Is Globalization?What Is Globalization?

Liberal theory of Deterritorialization

Individuals

Companies

Countries

Web 2.0?Web 2.0?

Online applications like:

Facebook, Myspace

YouTube, Blogger

InnoCentive, Human Genome Project

Aimed at user created content

Upload rates begin to exceed download rates

CrowdsourcingCrowdsourcing

AKA Citizen Participation

Goal: Harnessing the wisdom of the crowds

Premise: 1000 heads are better than 1

Utilizes Web 2.0 and other technologies

Breaks down the traditional barriers within and between territories through interconnectivity

Examples of Examples of CrowdsourcingCrowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing happens all around us:

Companies

Culture

Politics

A Crowdsourced A Crowdsourced CompanyCompany

Rob McEwen

400 MB

Total Prize money of $575,000

1,400 applicants from 50 countries

Mathematicians, Physics, Computer Graphics, Military Officers, Graduate Students

The Goldcorp The Goldcorp ChallengeChallenge

Applicants found 60 new targets

80% success rates

8 million oz of gold found

Winner: Fractal Graphics - Perth, Australia

$100 => $3000

Fallout from GoldcorpFallout from GoldcorpFirst large scale business application of crowdsourcing

Digitized the mining industry

Connected Australian company with Canadian mine

Broke down the barriers between the mining industry and various groups of people

Only helped advance deterritorialization for this side of the digital divide.

A Crowdsourced A Crowdsourced CultureCulture

Jimmy Wales

Wikipedia

12 million articles

+125 languages

Rapidly corrected, peer contributed encyclopedia

Wikipedia: Knowledge Wikipedia: Knowledge for the Worldfor the World

An online forum that connects people across the globe

Articles just as correct as Encyclopedia Britannica

Allows access to information to citizens around the world on literally anything

Breaks down the barriers between individuals and information

Digital Divide Problem

A Crowdsourced A Crowdsourced CampaignCampaign

MyBarackObama.com

Creative Commons License

Crowdsourcing as a grassroots movement

YouTube for Barack

YouTube for GoodYouTube for Good

YouTube for IllYouTube for Ill

Since the ElectionSince the Election

Change.gov

Open for Questions

Your Seat at the Table

Join the Discussion

Whitehouse.gov

Open for Questions

Fallout of the first Fallout of the first techPresidenttechPresident

The campaign connected various groups of seemingly unconnected people.

The crowdsourcing techniques broke down the barriers between these groups

Digital Divide problem lessened but still a major factor

ConclusionConclusion