Jon Gosier: The problem with "trickle-down techonomics"
Jon Gosier: El problema de la "tecnomía de chorreo"
Jon Gosier is a serial tech entrepreneur and early-stage startup investor. In 2015, Time magazine listed him as one of the "12 New Faces of Black Leadership." Full bio
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y tecnólogo,
of civic technology projects
de tecnología cívica
referred to as tech for good,
como tecnología para bien,
humanitarian problems.
problemas humanitarios.
that allowed local populations
que permitió a los locales
on their mobile phones
a sus móviles
later in North Africa
usada en África del Norte
to help activists stay connected
para conectar activistas
deliberately shutting off connectivity
los desconectaban
about these technologies
en estas tecnologías
in the back of my mind, which is,
the virtues of technology,
virtudes de la tecnología
that we're intending to help?
tends to operate under similar assumptions
opera bajo ciertas premisas
will get out and find everyone.
llagarán a todos.
of technology "trickle-down techonomics,"
de la tecnología "tecnomía de chorreo"
we design things for the select few,
para unos pocos selectos,
will reach everyone,
llegarán a todos,
behaves a lot like wealth and capital.
como la riqueza y el capital.
in the hands of the few,
into the hands of the many.
oppressive regimes on the weekends,
gobiernos opresivos los fines de semana,
that might be a little bit more relatable.
and smartphones and apps,
to track people's personal health
a rastrear la salud personal
the number of calories that you burn
número de calorías que quemas
o caminado lo suficiente.
or walking enough.
in medical facilities much more efficient,
el ingreso de pacientes a clínicas
these types of efficiencies.
find their way into medical rooms,
llegan a consultorios médicos
o reloj de US$400
the $400 phone or watch
on the medical system?
el sistema médico?
Bitcoin and crypto-currencies
el Bitcoin y las cripto-monedas
we move money around the world,
de mover dinero en el mundo,
is incredibly high, right?
es muy alta, ¿verdad?
phones, devices, connectivity,
teléfonos, aparatos, conectividad,
where you can find a proxy agent,
donde hay un representante,
of capital to participate.
para participar.
is, what happens to the last community
la última comunidad
of the world moves to digital currency?
el resto del mundo mude a digital?
in Philadelphia:
Filadelfia:
to the public library there,
a la biblioteca pública,
to stay open and stay relevant,
seguir abiertos y relevantes,
they're going about this
and moving them to the cloud.
y moverlos a la nube.
to school or from school,
yendo y viniendo del colegio,
to a mobile phone,
muchos chicos no los tienen.
education experience look like
su experiencia educativa
cloud-based library,
completamente basada en la nube
such a basic part of education?
de su educación?
across the world in East Africa:
to digitize land ownership rights,
derechos de propiedad de tierra,
older generations dying off,
viejas generaciones que mueren,
to put all this information online,
poner esta información en línea,
of these plots of land,
estos lotes de tierra,
and give them to the communities.
a las comunidades.
consequence of this
accidental de esto
investors, real estate developers,
y constructores de finca raíz,
buying up these plots of land
estos lotes de tierra
to the technologies
that makes that possible.
that connects these examples,
que conecta estos ejemplos,
aparatos y las tecnologías que creamos.
and the technologies that we make.
efficiency over efficacy.
than the outcomes of what we are doing.
que en los resultados de lo que hacemos.
the outcomes of the technologies we build,
en los resultados de las tecnologías,
control the world in which we live.
controlan más el mundo en que vivimos.
in the world of investment and banking.
en el mundo financiero y bancario,
for a similar movement
retrasado un movimiento similar
thinking about the next big thing,
pensar en la siguiente gran cosa,
as engineers, as makers,
ingenieros y creadores,
the unintended consequences
consecuencias accidentales
is in finding ways to include everyone.
encontrar formas de incluir a todos.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jon Gosier - Investor, data scientist, entrepreneurJon Gosier is a serial tech entrepreneur and early-stage startup investor. In 2015, Time magazine listed him as one of the "12 New Faces of Black Leadership."
Why you should listen
Jon Gosier is an investor and data scientist. He's a partner at Third Cohort Capital, an early-stage tech startup investment fund. Prior to joining Third Cohort, he was the founder of Appfrica, which invests in Africa’s technology economy, D8A Group, a company that makes data science solutions, and Market Atlas, which is like the Bloomberg terminal for emerging market countries. In 2015, Gosier was listed by TIME Magazine as one of “12 New Faces of Black Leadership”, as well as “Most Influential Blacks in Technology” by Business Insider in 2013 and 2014 and among the "20 Angels Worth Knowing" by Black Enterprise Magazine.
Gosier is a Fellow and Senior Fellow at TED from 2009 to 2012 and a first-year participant at THNK, the Amsterdam School for Creative Leadership in the Netherlands. He's won the Knight News Challenge twice, once in 2011 for work in analysis at Ushahidi and again in 2012 for work creating ways of moving data between mobile phones without a central mobile network.
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