The news is filled with stories of companies promising to “disrupt” this technology or that market. Growing trends such as mobile, apps, BYOD, open source, MOOCs, Vine-video, Social TV, 'big data,' compete for our attention and understanding.  Microsoft is finally in the cloud, YouTube adds 100 hours of video per minute, Google is making devices like 'Glass,' Twitter is truly revolutionary, and Facebook may be competing with them all. Yet some of the biggest social impacts are due to much lower technologies such as sms mapping, micro-payments, mobile health. Don’t miss this look into the future from two provocative thought leaders! Delivered by Dan Callahan (CGNET) & Peter S. Crosby (Dotsub) at InsideNGO: Operational Excellence for Global Impact conference <www.insidengo.org> on July 31, 2013, in Washington, DC

1. Through the Looking Glass
Dan Callahan & Peter Crosby

2. Topic: Through the Looking Glass…
The news is filled with stories of companies promising to
“disrupt” this technology or that market. Growing trends such
as mobile, apps, BYOD, open source, MOOCs, Vine-video,
Social TV, 'big data,' compete for our attention and
understanding. Microsoft is finally in the cloud, YouTube adds
100 hours of video per minute, Google is making devices like
'Glass,' Twitter is truly revolutionary, and Facebook may be
competing with them all. Yet some of the biggest social
impacts are due to much lower technologies such as sms
mapping, micro-payments, mobile health. Don’t miss this look
into the future from two provocative thought leaders!

6. You Tube Uploads

8. Global Internet Usage: 75% non-USA

9. New International Internet Domains
First four new top-level domains - all non-roman
character based:
• .net in Arabic:
•.game in Chinese: 游戏
•.online in Russian: онлайн
•.site in Russian: сайт

10. Global Internet Penetration: only 34%

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12. Chaordic
•Dee Hock, the founder of VISA, coined the term
“chaordic” in 1993 to describe systems that are
both chaotic and ordered.
•Nature, living organisms, and the evolutionary
process are often described as chaordic.
•“The harmonious coexistence of opposing forces,”
is what we’ll use today….

13. Our Use Cases today…
•Collaboration, Including Social
•Global Video
•Big Data
•And… yours?

14. Platforms Emerging
PC
Desktop
Internet
Mobile
Internet
Wearable
or
Everywhere
Platform: Where Data is
Created and Accessed

15. Got Collaboration Tools?
Communicating
Editing
ProducingTeam Mgt.
Sharing

16. The
new
BRAND
called…

17. USAF
Social
Media
Guide

18. Crowd-Sourced: fill-in-the-blank
• Wikipedia
• Design
• Funding
• Advocacy
• Software
• Media Making
• Translations

19. Massive Online Open Course (MOOCs): Stanford
165k Students | 190 Countries | 40 Languages

20. NGO Activism Video Contests

21. Risky
Business

22. iReporting
We Are All Citizen Journalists….

23. Machine Translation Now
•Google Translate = 200 million use people daily
•57th language added was Cherokee (<10k speakers)
•Text-to-Text: Machine Translations (MT), Translation
Memories (TM), word pairs, big data, algorithms
•Audio-to-Text: Linguistics,
Speech Recognition, Natural
Language Processing, Computer
Learning, Artificial Intelligence?

24. Mobile Audio Translators: the last foot

25. Mobile-cellular Subscriptions = 6.8 billion
* Estimates by International Telecommunication Union (ITU) World in 2013 Facts

26. Mapping
• GPS
• RFD
• Frontline SMS
• Monitoring devices
• Environment
• Advocacy
• Health
• Stuff

27. Internet of Things…connected
• Military
• Highways
• Vehicles
• Electric Grids / Meters
• Lighting Control
• Thermostats
• Parking Spaces / Meters

28. Google glass, etc…
Quantified Self:
• wearable tech: fitness, health, work, leisure
• view real world with digital overlays
• visualized, gamified, shared & tracked
Interconnectivity:
• smart grid technologies
• contextual Data
• mass social interaction ->
contextual networks

29. The Human
Face of
BIG DATA:
a planetary
nervous
system

30. Big Data Pros & Cons
• One to 1+ devices
• Devices = data = identity
• Pluses: personalization, networking, analytics
• Personal / Public Data Field
• Ownership / control / ID security
• National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC)
• PRISM

31. Sharing Data with PRISM

32. Concerns? How to Order the Chaos?
Business
• Program
• Operations
Relevant
Topics
Sensing,
Measuring,
Assessing
• Use your Twitter account
• Get to know the early
adopters
• Test your point of view
• Your methods?

33. Why
this
matters
(play video)

34. Thanks from ! and CGNET

35. InsideNGO conference 2013
Through the Looking Glass
Peter S. Crosby – peter@dosub.com – 650-533-3313
Dan Callahan – d.Callahan@cgnet.com – 650-302-0202

36. Resources
• Social Media Guide: http://www.af.mil/socialmedia.asp
• NGO Video: http://www.youtube.com/user/nonprofitvideoawards
• PBS Citizen Journalism: http://to.pbs.org/12ILUYg
• Data Journalism: http://thehumanfaceofbigdata.com/
• Open Data
• ProPublica (Public Journalism) http://www.propublica.org/
• Sunlight Foundation http://sunlightfoundation.com
• “The Age of Context” by Richard Scoble: http://slidesha.re/1bGjOAI
• National Strategy for Trusted Identities
in Cyberspace (NSTIC) http://www.nist.gov/nstic/
• Video Captions / Translations (Freemium): http://dotsub.com

37. References
• http://qz.com/99625/the-meteoric-rise-of-cellphones-in-one-chart/
• http://www.kpcb.com/insights/2013-internet-trends
• http://www.crn.com/news/security/240156399/mobile-device-
management-market-wont-last-gartner.htm
• http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/23/tech/web/google-25-percent-traffic
• http://www.google.com/loon/
• http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-26/chromecast-
google-s-third-attempt-to-get-into-your-tv
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/fp142374.aspx