Jon Gosier: The problem with "trickle-down techonomics"
Jon Gosier: "Teknolojik Süzülme" Problemi
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of civic technology projects
referred to as tech for good,
problemlerini çözmek
humanitarian problems.
teknoloji olarak da adlandırılır.
that allowed local populations
on their mobile phones
karşı çıkılması üzerine
later in North Africa
to help activists stay connected
nüfusu kontrol etmek için
deliberately shutting off connectivity
aktivistlerin bağlı kalmasına
about these technologies
in the back of my mind, which is,
the virtues of technology,
konusunda yanılıyorsak
that we're intending to help?
anlamda zarar veriyorsa?
tends to operate under similar assumptions
endüstrileri, herkesi olumlu yönde
will get out and find everyone.
açılacak ve herkese ulaşacak.
of technology "trickle-down techonomics,"
bir cümleyi kopyalayarak,
we design things for the select few,
er ya da geç bu teknolojilerin
will reach everyone,
behaves a lot like wealth and capital.
ve zenginlik gibi hareket eder.
in the hands of the few,
eğiliminde olurlar
into the hands of the many.
imkânı bulurlar.
oppressive regimes on the weekends,
rejimiyle mücadele etmediğinizden,
that might be a little bit more relatable.
birkaç örnek düşünmenizi istedim.
and smartphones and apps,
ve uygulamaların dünyasında,
to track people's personal health
büyük bir akım var.
the number of calories that you burn
takip edebileceğiniz,
or walking enough.
yeterli mi olduğunu gösteren programlar.
in medical facilities much more efficient,
alımını çok daha etkili hâle getiriyor
these types of efficiencies.
beklemeye başlıyorlar.
find their way into medical rooms,
odalara girip
the $400 phone or watch
saati olmayanın
on the medical system?
yük mü olacaklar?
Bitcoin and crypto-currencies
sanal para ve kripto paralar
we move money around the world,
köklü değişiklikler getiriyor,
is incredibly high, right?
derecede zor, değil mi?
ulaşabilmeniz gerekiyor.
phones, devices, connectivity,
where you can find a proxy agent,
genelde belli miktarda nakit isteyen
of capital to participate.
is, what happens to the last community
dünyanın geri kalanı
of the world moves to digital currency?
kullanan son topluma ne olur?
in Philadelphia:
Philadelphia'dan bir örnek;
to the public library there,
kütüphanesine gittiğimde
to stay open and stay relevant,
için alanlarını daraltmaları gerekliydi
they're going about this
birçok kitabı
and moving them to the cloud.
ve buluta taşımaktı.
to school or from school,
araştırma yapabilirsiniz,
to a mobile phone,
erişimin gereklidir.
böyle bir imkânı yoktur.
education experience look like
alışmışlarken,
cloud-based library,
bir kütüphaneye geçiş
such a basic part of education?
across the world in East Africa:
Doğu Afrika'dan son bir örnek daha:
to digitize land ownership rights,
sebepten dolayı dijital ortama
older generations dying off,
art arda ölen yaşlılar
konusunda karışıklık yaratıyordu.
to put all this information online,
ortama aktarma,
of these plots of land,
tutulması, buluta aktarılması
and give them to the communities.
büyük bir değişim vardı.
consequence of this
investors, real estate developers,
ve emlak müteahhitleri
buying up these plots of land
bağlantıları olduğundan
to the technologies
ve bu toplumlardaki
that makes that possible.
that connects these examples,
ortak payda,
and the technologies that we make.
istenmeyen sonuçlarıdır.
efficiency over efficacy.
tercih edebiliyoruz.
than the outcomes of what we are doing.
konusunda düşünüyoruz.
the outcomes of the technologies we build,
dünyayı kontrol altına alan teknolojinin
control the world in which we live.
sorumluluğumuz var.
in the world of investment and banking.
açıdan büyük bir baskı vardı.
for a similar movement
teknik ve teknoloji alanında
olduğumuzu düşünüyorum.
thinking about the next big thing,
ve yapıcı olan sizleri,
as engineers, as makers,
şeyi düşünürken,
the unintended consequences
is in finding ways to include everyone.
herkesi kapsayan yollar bulmaktır.
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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