Jon Gosier: The problem with "trickle-down techonomics"
Jon Gosier: Il problema della "teconomia dello sgocciolamento"
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
su tanti progetti civici tecnologici.
di solito, "tecnologia per il bene",
referred to as tech for good,
humanitarian problems.
per risolvere problemi umanitari.
that allowed local populations
che permette a popolazioni locali
on their mobile phones
del governo sui cellulari
later in North Africa
è stata poi applicata in Nord Africa
to help activists stay connected
gli attivisti a rimanere connessi
deliberately shutting off connectivity
deliberatamente la connessione
della popolazione.
about these technologies
tecnologie e alle cose su cui lavoro,
in the back of my mind, which is,
the virtues of technology,
sui pregi della tecnologia,
che ci proponiamo di aiutare?
that we're intending to help?
tends to operate under similar assumptions
tende a operare su ipotesi simili,
will get out and find everyone.
arriveranno a tutti.
of technology "trickle-down techonomics,"
chiamo "teconomia dello sgocciolamento",
un'espressione. (Risate)
we design things for the select few,
per pochi selezionati,
will reach everyone,
arriveranno a tutti.
behaves a lot like wealth and capital.
come ricchezza e capitale.
in the hands of the few,
into the hands of the many.
nelle mani dei più.
oppressive regimes on the weekends,
regimi oppressivi nei weekend,
that might be a little bit more relatable.
a qualche esempio più calzante.
and smartphones and apps,
degli smartphone e delle app,
to track people's personal health
lo stato di salute personale
the number of calories that you burn
le calorie che bruciate,
o se state camminando abbastanza.
or walking enough.
in medical facilities much more efficient,
l'ingresso dei pazienti in ambulatorio,
these types of efficiencies.
questo tipo di efficienze.
si fanno strada negli ambulatori,
find their way into medical rooms,
o un orologio da 400 dollari
the $400 phone or watch
on the medical system?
per il sistema medico?
Bitcoin and crypto-currencies
Bitcoin e criptovaluta
we move money around the world,
di denaro nel mondo,
is incredibly high, right?
phones, devices, connectivity,
apparecchi, connettività,
where you can find a proxy agent,
se si riesce a trovare un sostituto,
of capital to participate.
is, what happens to the last community
cosa succede all'ultima comunità
of the world moves to digital currency?
il resto del mondo usa la moneta digitale?
in Philadelphia:
città natale Philadelphia:
alla biblioteca pubblica,
to the public library there,
una crisi esistenziale.
to stay open and stay relevant,
per rimanere aperti e avere un ruolo,
they're going about this
and moving them to the cloud.
e spostare i libri sulla nuvola.
è fantastico, vero?
to school or from school,
per o da scuola,
to a mobile phone,
a un telefono cellulare,
bambini non è così.
education experience look like
la loro esperienza scolastica
cloud-based library,
such a basic part of education?
un pilastro dell'istruzione?
across the world in East Africa:
del mondo in Africa Orientale:
to digitize land ownership rights,
per la digitalizzazione
della terra, per tanti motivi.
older generations dying off,
di migranti che muoiono
hanno portato a conflitti di proprietà.
per portare queste informazioni online,
to put all this information online,
degli appezzamenti,
of these plots of land,
e renderli disponibili alla comunità.
and give them to the communities.
consequence of this
operatori del settore immobiliare
investors, real estate developers,
iniziato a comprare appezzamenti
buying up these plots of land
to the technologies
che lo rende possibile.
that makes that possible.
che accomuna questi esempi,
that connects these examples,
e tecnologie che creiamo.
and the technologies that we make.
l'efficienza all'efficacia.
efficiency over efficacy.
than the outcomes of what we are doing.
che alle conseguenze di ciò che facciamo.
the outcomes of the technologies we build,
delle tecnologie che creiamo,
sempre più il mondo in cui viviamo.
control the world in which we live.
c'è stata una grande spinta all'etica
in the world of investment and banking.
e in quello bancario.
sia necessario da tempo
for a similar movement
nell'area tecnologica.
thinking about the next big thing,
as engineers, as makers,
ingegneri, maker, quali siete,
the unintended consequences
non volute delle cose che create,
is in finding ways to include everyone.
il modo di includere tutti.
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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