Jon Gosier: The problem with "trickle-down techonomics"
Jon Gosier: Problem "skapującej techonomii"
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
projektami technicznymi
referred to as tech for good,
jako użycie techniki w zbożnym celu,
humanitarian problems.
problemów humanitarnych.
that allowed local populations
pozwalającym mieszkańcom
on their mobile phones
nad ich telefonami komórkowymi,
later in North Africa
wykorzystano też w Afryce Północnej
to help activists stay connected
opozycjonistom kontaktować się wtedy,
deliberately shutting off connectivity
about these technologies
nad tymi technikami
in the back of my mind, which is,
the virtues of technology,
którym chcemy pomóc?
that we're intending to help?
tends to operate under similar assumptions
działa wszędzie w podobny sposób.
will get out and find everyone.
dostępne dla wszystkich.
of technology "trickle-down techonomics,"
nazywam "ściekającą techonomią",
we design things for the select few,
dla grupy wybrańców,
will reach everyone,
behaves a lot like wealth and capital.
działają jak bogactwa i kapitał:
in the hands of the few,
into the hands of the many.
oppressive regimes on the weekends,
z reżimami w weekendy,
that might be a little bit more relatable.
które mogą być wam bliższe.
and smartphones and apps,
smartfonów i aplikacji
to track people's personal health
za pomocą aplikacji
the number of calories that you burn
czy za mało chodzicie.
or walking enough.
in medical facilities much more efficient,
these types of efficiencies.
dotrą do gabinetów lekarskich
find their way into medical rooms,
które nie mają do nich dostępu?
urządzenia za tysiąc złotych,
the $400 phone or watch
on the medical system?
dla systemu ochrony zdrowia?
Bitcoin and crypto-currencies
we move money around the world,
przelewania pieniędzy,
is incredibly high, right?
różnych urządzeń, Internetu.
phones, devices, connectivity,
where you can find a proxy agent,
of capital to participate.
is, what happens to the last community
używającym banknotów,
of the world moves to digital currency?
in Philadelphia:
to the public library there,
to stay open and stay relevant,
wprowadzić ograniczenia,
they're going about this
zdigitalizowanie książek
and moving them to the cloud.
do albo ze szkoły,
to school or from school,
dostęp do Internetu,
to a mobile phone,
education experience look like
cloud-based library,
such a basic part of education?
podstawowym elementem edukacji?
across the world in East Africa:
jest Afryka Wschodnia,
to digitize land ownership rights,
aktów własności gruntów.
wymierające starsze pokolenie
older generations dying off,
danych do Internetu,
to put all this information online,
of these plots of land,
and give them to the communities.
i dać ogólny dostęp.
consequence of this
wynik wyglądał tak,
investors, real estate developers,
buying up these plots of land
to the technologies
that makes that possible.
that connects these examples,
dla tych wszystkich przykładów,
and the technologies that we make.
i technik, które stworzyliśmy.
efektywność nad skuteczność.
efficiency over efficacy.
niż o tym, co z nich wyniknie.
than the outcomes of what we are doing.
the outcomes of the technologies we build,
control the world in which we live.
kontrolują nasz świat.
in the world of investment and banking.
w świecie inwestycji i banków.
w tworzeniu podobnego ruchu
for a similar movement
thinking about the next big thing,
as engineers, as makers,
inżynierowie czy twórcy,
the unintended consequences
o niezamierzonych konsekwencjach
znalezienie sposobu,
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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