VALUE OF VALUESVALUE OF VALUES

What I'm Learning

Feb 23, 2010

Stanford, CA

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Nipun MehtaCharityFocus.orgHelping Others Help Others

New Dimension of ValueNew Dimension of Value

Looking DeeperLooking Deeper

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“Is Google Making us Stoopid?” –Nicolas Carr

“Replacing Experience with Facsimile?” –Eric Fischl

“Data without the ability to divine is useless. I don't trust algorithm like I trust intuition: the art of dowsing through data.” –Xeni

“Internet is empty calories. It’s sugar. Leaves us hungrier than before.” –Esther Dyson

“Publishing is the new literacy.” --Shirky

Photo Credit: Katinka Matson, Edge.org

Does Internet Change How We Does Internet Change How We Think?Think?

7 billion new connections, but how deep do friendships go?

More than half the world has mobiles, so do 33% of 11 year olds in US who spend ‘every waking minute’ with media.

Handwriting is getting outdated. So are humanities majors: 30% in 70s to 16%.

“Wisdom of crowds” also shows up as “meanness of mobs.”

Source: Business Insider, Jan 2010

A Brave New World?A Brave New World?

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Crowd SourcingCrowd Sourcing

Tweenbots are robots that need human assistance to reach their destination.

Kindness machine asks Turkers to submit photo of you doing a kind act, for a payment of 50 cents!

Kindness of Strangers?Kindness of Strangers?

Millions of Smile Cards are now floating around the world, ranging from everyday heroes to rock stars.

Lori Drew was convicted i n2008, then acquitted, raising questions about anonymity online?

Merits of AnonymityMerits of Anonymity

What started in the garage of an teen band in Australia, launched into an entire movement worldwide.

Bus fight between 50-year-old Black man and 67-year-old White man is the fastest spreading public fight meme.

Spreading MemesSpreading Memes

#pman tag by Twitter helped launch massive protests in Moldova, which forced new elections and a regime change.

Kathy Sierra was randomly targeted by "trolls".

Choi Jin-sil -- "Nation's Actress" – suicide prompted government to regulate Netizens.

Igniting MovementsIgniting Movements

“3 Billion hours / wk playing online games. Needs to be 21B/wk to save the world.” –Twitt by Jane McGonigal

We pay kids in developing countries to go to school, give out blackberries to stop smoking, build games for social change, use fame for losing weight. Is that all we can respond to?

What Move Us?What Move Us?

CHARITYFOCUS CHARITYFOCUS FOUNDATIONFOUNDATION Be volunteer run. Focus on

internal transformation. Don’t fundraise. Trust the

ripple effect. Think small. Assume value

in every part of the process.

Power of Non-Financial Power of Non-Financial IncentivesIncentives

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Power of GiftPower of Gift

Power of GoodPower of Good

Discover AbundanceDiscover Abundance

Social Capital

Subtle Capital

Synergy

Capital

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