Jon Gosier: The problem with "trickle-down techonomics"
جان گاسیر: مشکلات ناشی از «فنآوری رو به کاهش»
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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of civic technology projects
referred to as tech for good,
humanitarian problems.
that allowed local populations
on their mobile phones
مردم محلی برای اظهار نظرات
later in North Africa
to help activists stay connected
deliberately shutting off connectivity
about these technologies
in the back of my mind, which is,
the virtues of technology,
that we're intending to help?
tends to operate under similar assumptions
حول محور این تصورات می چرخه
will get out and find everyone.
of technology "trickle-down techonomics,"
"حقه فنآوران" بنامم،
we design things for the select few,
برای یک گروه کوچک مد نظرمان طراحی کنیم،
will reach everyone,
behaves a lot like wealth and capital.
in the hands of the few,
into the hands of the many.
افراد بیشتری قرار می گیرند .
oppressive regimes on the weekends,
مبارزه با رژیم های سرکوبگر نیستید،
that might be a little bit more relatable.
دیگری فکر کنیم که شاید بیشتر مرتبط باشند.
and smartphones and apps,
to track people's personal health
the number of calories that you burn
را اندازه گیری می کند
or walking enough.
یا به اندازه کافی راه می روید.
in medical facilities much more efficient,
در دستگاه پزشکی را کارآمد تر کرده،
these types of efficiencies.
find their way into medical rooms,
در اتاق های پزشکی را ه یافته،
the $400 phone or watch
on the medical system?
Bitcoin and crypto-currencies
we move money around the world,
is incredibly high, right?
به طور باور نکردنی بالاست، درسته؟
phones, devices, connectivity,
و ارتباطات مشابه دسترسی داشته باشی،
where you can find a proxy agent,
تا یک نماینده اجرایی داشته باشی،
of capital to participate.
از سرمایه را جهت مشارکت، دارند.
is, what happens to the last community
چه بر سر آخرین گروهی که
of the world moves to digital currency?
در حالیکه جهان به سمت دنیای دیجیتال در حرکت است؟
in Philadelphia:
to the public library there,
to stay open and stay relevant,
بطور معقولی به کار خود ادامه دهند،
they're going about this
and moving them to the cloud.
و بصورت آنلاین درcloud قرار دهند.
to school or from school,
to a mobile phone,
education experience look like
cloud-based library,
such a basic part of education?
across the world in East Africa:
to digitize land ownership rights,
حقوق مالکیت زمینها در جریان است،
older generations dying off,
مرگ نسل های قدیمی تر،
to put all this information online,
اطلاعات بصورت آنلاین انجام شد،
of these plots of land,
and give them to the communities.
و در اختیار جوامع قرار گرفت.
consequence of this
investors, real estate developers,
سرمایه گذاران، مشاورین املاک و مستغلات،
buying up these plots of land
to the technologies
that makes that possible.
that connects these examples,
این مثالها را بهم پیوند می دهد،
and the technologies that we make.
ابزارها و فن آوریهاست.
efficiency over efficacy.
than the outcomes of what we are doing.
تا دربارۀ پی آمدهای آنچه انجام می دهیم.
the outcomes of the technologies we build,
در دست ساخت مان را در نظر بگیریم،
control the world in which we live.
جهانی را که در آن زندگی می کنیم کنترل می کنند.
in the world of investment and banking.
for a similar movement
thinking about the next big thing,
همانطور به قدم بزرگ بعدی فکر می کنید،
as engineers, as makers,
به عنوان مهندس، بعنوان تولید کننده،
the unintended consequences
is in finding ways to include everyone.
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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