Jon Gosier: The problem with "trickle-down techonomics"
Jon Gosier: Het probleem met 'trickle-down techonomics'
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
burgerlijke projecten gewerkt.
referred to as tech for good,
techniek ten goede genoemd,
humanitarian problems.
humanitaire problemen.
waarmee de lokale bevolking
that allowed local populations
on their mobile phones
kon omzeilen,
later in North Africa
ook in Noord-Afrika gebruikt
to help activists stay connected
deliberately shutting off connectivity
hun communicatie te verbreken
about these technologies
de voordelen die we associëren
in the back of my mind, which is,
the virtues of technology,
wel echt kloppen,
that we're intending to help?
tends to operate under similar assumptions
over het algemeen van mening
will get out and find everyone.
voor iedereen toegankelijk.
of technology "trickle-down techonomics,"
technologie 'trickle-down techonomics',
we design things for the select few,
voor een kleine groep ontwerpen,
will reach everyone,
tot iedereen
behaves a lot like wealth and capital.
net als welvaart en kapitaal.
in the hands of the few,
van een kleine groep
into the hands of the many.
niet elk weekend strijden
oppressive regimes on the weekends,
that might be a little bit more relatable.
voorbeelden geven.
and smartphones and apps,
smartphones en apps
to track people's personal health
van persoonlijke gezondheid
the number of calories that you burn
hoeveel calorieën je verbrandt
or walking enough.
wel genoeg beweging krijgt.
in medical facilities much more efficient,
van een patient een stuk efficiënter.
these types of efficiencies.
steeds meer gebruik maken
find their way into medical rooms,
met mensen zonder toegang daartoe.
the $400 phone or watch
of smartwatch van 400 dollar
on the medical system?
het medische systeem?
revolutioneren Bitcoin en crypto-valuta
Bitcoin and crypto-currencies
we move money around the world,
over de wereld beweegt.
is incredibly high, right?
phones, devices, connectivity,
apparaten en connectiviteit,
where you can find a proxy agent,
via een tussenpersoon doet,
of capital to participate.
startkapitaal nodig.
is, what happens to the last community
of the world moves to digital currency?
de rest is overgestapt op digitaal geld?
mijn geboortestad.
in Philadelphia:
naar de openbare bibliotheek,
to the public library there,
to stay open and stay relevant,
en relevant te blijven.
they're going about this
and moving them to the cloud.
to school or from school,
onderzoek doen.
to a mobile phone,
tot een mobiele telefoon.
veel kinderen dat niet.
education experience look like
cloud-based library,
naar de cloud is verplaatst?
essentieel onderdeel van het onderwijs?
such a basic part of education?
across the world in East Africa:
to digitize land ownership rights,
van land te digitalizeren,
older generations dying off,
oudere generaties die sterven,
wat wiens eigendom is.
to put all this information online,
om deze informatie online te zetten.
of these plots of land,
deze stukken land bezat,
en gaf het aan de gemeenschappen.
and give them to the communities.
consequence of this
investors, real estate developers,
investeerders en projectontwikkelaars
al deze stukken land opkochten
buying up these plots of land
to the technologies
that makes that possible.
die dat mogelijk maken.
that connects these examples,
bij deze voorbeelden,
en de technologie die wij ontwikkelen.
and the technologies that we make.
aan efficiëntie boven doeltreffendheid.
efficiency over efficacy.
than the outcomes of what we are doing.
dan aan de gevolgen daarvan.
the outcomes of the technologies we build,
te denken over de gevolgen van technologie
control the world in which we live.
steeds meer beïnvloeden.
in the world of investment and banking.
in de wereld van investeren en bankieren.
for a similar movement
op het gebied van techniek en technologie.
thinking about the next big thing,
zijn met het volgende grote idee
as engineers, as makers,
ingenieurs, makers,
the unintended consequences
de onbedoelde gevolgen
is in finding ways to include everyone.
om iedereen mee te laten doen.
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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