The Wisdom of Crowds
James Surowiecki pinpoints the moment when social media became an equal player in the world of news-gathering: the 2005 tsunami, when YouTube video, blogs, IMs and txts carried the news — and preserved moving personal stories from the tragedy.
James Surowiecki argues that people, when we act en masse, are smarter than we think. He’s the author of The Wisdom of Crowds and writes about finance for the New Yorker.
Yochai Benkler: Open-source economics
Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization. AQUÍ
Yochai Benkler has been called “the leading intellectual of the information age.” He proposes that volunteer-based projects such as Wikipedia and Linux are the next stage of human organization and economic production.He’s the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society
(información de TED.com)
Patrick Awuah: Educating a new generation of African leaders
After working at Microsoft for almost a decade, Patrick Awuah returned home to Ghana and cofounded Ashesi University, a small liberal arts college that aims to educate Africa’s next generation of leaders. Its first class of students graduated in 2006.
Patrick Awuah makes the case that a liberal arts education is critical to forming true leaders, click here.
