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• Social event venue voting
Example applications, and their:
• Addictive element
• Prosumer role
• Collaboration rationale
• Business logic

APPLICATION AREAS

Goals

• Point at the range of application areas of new media / CCM
• Point out the potential impact to different sections of the society

Society

Governance

• Top-down direction
• Paperless legislative system, openness. E.g. Estonia, Finland (Boulard 2007)
• Transparency of governance
• Web-based citizen hearing, e.g. environmental impact evaluation
• Web voting (e.g. Estonia) (Madise 2005)
• once for every election period
• Continuous democracy. (Lefort)
The need for bottom-up citizen contribution recognized!

Democracy

• Täna Otsustan Mina initiative system (TOM, 2001-) lets citizens make initiatives
• Osalusveeb
Representative to participatory democracy?
• (Rosen 2003)
• (IndiaTogether 2003)
• Continuous web democracy experiment, Bollnäs, Sweden
Finnish Election Engines: Extremely popular, democratic & entertainment value combined
HOPS Citizens Initiative Community. Demo: (kodanik1/kodanik1, kodanik2/kodanik2...etc. )
Related course: IFI7147 E-Government

Inclusion & participation

Inclusion by eParticipation - project. Practices of marginalized groups and government brought closer with CCT, such as embedding, mashups, APIs:
• Citizen communities making initiatives with THEIR CCM
• Government listening to communities' initiatives, hooking up to communities' CCM
• Tallinn - Helsinki twin city TV (citizen TV)

Education

Impacts of :
• Collaboration
• Sharing
• Independent of place and time

Learning

• Learning environments (e.g. IVA, Moodle)
• Distance learning
• Asynchronous, e.g. EMIM
• Synchronous
Related course: E-Learning

Learning materials

• Learning object repositories, collaborative, shared
• TLU Center of Educational Technology

Learning outside

• GIS, locative media
• Internet as the learning environment & material
Implications?

Learning in distance

• Full use in universities
Optimization, savings in personnel and learning materials.
Applicable to lower levels of education?

Health

• Collaborative medical practice

Environment

• Collaborative environment watch

Academia and research

Peer review

• Fundamental part of academia, but slow, expensive as a print medium
• Nature peer review online
Note: Sharing has always been characteristic of academia
• Code (open source)
• Biology & Open source (Herper & Langreth)
Data, e.g. genome: Sharing vs. patenting (Shirky 1999)
• Computational resources

Journal media

• High pricing, crisis

Art and creativity

• Participatory art => the spectator or audience turns to co-author, co-creator and "prosumer"
The artist as a designer of:
Narrative spaces, navigable story worlds (Book: Murray 1997)
• Activity spaces
• ...for the participants to create within
Second Life as a space of creativity:
• Architecture
Creativity enablement: Avatar design

Industry

Sharing:
• Innovation
• Expertise
Data: Larger innovative base without employing a huge R & D, externalization
Patents: Let others use patents that you cannot!
• Boeing case. Distributed collaborative R & D of Boeing 787 aircraft (Tapscott and Williams 2006, 224 - 230)
• Goldcorp case (Tapscott and Williams 2007, article)

Summary

Sharing and collaboration have enormous impacts to the society, culture and economy, if not literally "change everything" .

Assignment

0) Team up to 2-3 members.
1) Brainstorm a collaborative community concept with:
• Community or peering logic
• Addictive element
• Collaboration rationale
• "Prosumer" role
• business or funding logic (including volunteer work)
Some ideas:
• School violence prevention
• Neighborhood watch
• Democratic environment design
• Distant care of the elderly
• TV-series scripting
• Festival reporting
• Art-taste navigator
• Musical club locative matchmaker
• Consumers' food fact database
2) Do some background search.
3) Make a mockup webpage with any software that generates html, e.g. Google Site, Google, MS Word. Perhaps with something others to play with.
4) Link it here.

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