To quote Jeff Hammerbacher, the best minds of our generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. In other words, web scale companies like Twitter, Facebook, Google, Tumblr etc. are innovating in many areas but focused on their business models more than anything else. But that's okay, because the 'exhaust' of their innovations are indirectly having a tremendous impact on society. This presentation delivered by Jon Gosier at Startup Fest in Montreal, Canada was about how data platforms are being used to solve difficult problems in society and improving the relationship between state and citizen. Imagine if social movements of the past had access to tools like Neighborland, CrimeSpotting, Ushahidi, Flowminder, VibrantData.org, MetaLayer and others. Would social change have come faster, more peacefully, or been more volatile?

1. CHANGING GOVERNMENTS THROUGH DATA
Startup Festival 2012 Jon Gosier, Founder, MetaLayer (@jongos)

2. “The best minds of my generation are
thinking about how to make people click
ads.”
- Jeff Hammerbacher

3. OPEN DATA

4. DATA.UN.ORG

5. MAPPING DEMOGRAPHICS

6. CROWD SOURCING

8. CITIZEN REPORTING

9. USHAHIDI.COM

10. CITIZEN REPORTING

11. NEIGHBORLAND.COM

12. CRIMESPOTTING

13. POLICE.UK

14. PREDICTIVE TECHNOLOGY

15. FLOWMINDER

16. MONITORING

17. RED CROSS DIGITAL OPERATIONS

18. by Kate Starbird, Bill Morris, Chris Danforth and GeoSprocket

19. COMPLEXITY SCIENCE

20. VIBRANTDATA.ORG

21. DATA + DEMAND + DEMOCRACY

22. VISUALIZATION
http://TEDglobe.com

23. METALAYER
http://TEDglobe.com

24. THANK-YOU
Startup Festival 2012 Jon Gosier, Founder, MetaLayer (@jongos)