Jon Gosier: The problem with "trickle-down techonomics"
جون غوسير: المشكلة في أن استفادة الكل اقتصاديًا من التكنولوجيًا
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,
يشار إليها بالتكنولوجيا الخيرة،
humanitarian problems.
المشكلات الإنسانية.
that allowed local populations
يسمح للسكان المحليين
on their mobile phones
على هواتفهم النقالة.
later in North Africa
لاحقًا في شمال أفريقيا
to help activists stay connected
deliberately shutting off connectivity
about these technologies
حول تلك التكنلوجيا،
in the back of my mind, which is,
the virtues of technology,
that we're intending to help?
tends to operate under similar assumptions
تميل إلى العمل في ظل افتراضات مماثلة
will get out and find everyone.
وتكون في متناول الكل.
of technology "trickle-down techonomics,"
"الكل يستفيد اقتصاديا من التكنولوجيا"
(ضحك)
we design things for the select few,
أشياء لقلة مختارة،
will reach everyone,
سوف تصل للجميع،
behaves a lot like wealth and capital.
مِثل الثروة ورأس المال.
in the hands of the few,
في أيدي قلة من الناس
into the hands of the many.
oppressive regimes on the weekends,
في عطلة نهاية الأسبوع
that might be a little bit more relatable.
ليكون الموضوع أكثر ترابطًا
and smartphones and apps,
والهواتف الذكية والتطبيقات،
to track people's personal health
الصحة الشخصية للناس
the number of calories that you burn
عدد السعرات الحرارية التي تحرقها
or walking enough.
أو أنك مشيت بما فيه الكفاية.
in medical facilities much more efficient,
في المرافق الطبية أكثر فعالية،
الأنواع من الكفاءات.
these types of efficiencies.
find their way into medical rooms,
قد وجدت طريقها إلى الغرف الطبية،
the $400 phone or watch
on the medical system?
Bitcoin and crypto-currencies
وتزوير العملات
we move money around the world,
is incredibly high, right?
وبشكل لا يصدق، أليس كذلك؟
phones, devices, connectivity,
والأجهزة والاتصالات،
where you can find a proxy agent,
يمكنك العثور على وكيل بروكسي،
of capital to participate.
من رأس المال للمشاركة فيها.
is, what happens to the last community
ما الذي يحدث للمجتمع السابق
of the world moves to digital currency?
تحولوا إلى العملة الرقمية؟
in Philadelphia:
to the public library there,
to stay open and stay relevant,
من أجل أن تبقى مفتوحة ومتواصلة
they're going about this
and moving them to the cloud.
ونقلها إلى أنظمة حاسوبية.
أليس كذلك؟
to school or from school,
أو أثناء العودة،
to a mobile phone,
لا يمكنهم ذلك
education experience look like
cloud-based library,
على المكتبة السحابية.
such a basic part of education?
across the world in East Africa:
to digitize land ownership rights,
حقوق امتلاك الأراضي،
older generations dying off,
في مرحلة الزوال
to put all this information online,
لوضع تلك المعلومات على الانترنت
of these plots of land,
and give them to the communities.
consequence of this
investors, real estate developers,
المستثمرين والمطورين العقاريين،
buying up these plots of land
لشراء تلك الأراضي
to the technologies
إلى هذه التكنولوجيا،
that makes that possible.
that connects these examples,
and the technologies that we make.
والتقنيات التي أنشأناها.
نفضل الكفاءة على الفعالية.
efficiency over efficacy.
than the outcomes of what we are doing.
لا نُفكر في نتائج هذه المسألة.
the outcomes of the technologies we build,
ما نصنعه من تكنلوجيا
control the world in which we live.
على العالم الذي نعيش فيه.
in the world of investment and banking.
في عالم الاستثمار والأعمال المصرفية.
for a similar movement
عن بدء حركة مماثلة
thinking about the next big thing,
على التفكير في الخطوة القدمة
as engineers, as makers,
كمهندسين، وصناع،
the unintended consequences
is in finding ways to include everyone.
إيجاد طرق لشمل الجميع.
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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