Wikimania 2011 - Opening ceremony & Prof. Yochai Benkler

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Wikimania 2011 Conference - Day 1 Morning:

Moderator: Sheizaf Rafaeli
* Introduction by Wikimedia Israel Chairman Tomer Ashur

* Introduction by former minister Meir Sheetrit

* Keynote speech by Prof. Yochai Benkler

From networked cooperation to human sociality: Wikipedia as the model for a new view of social relations
A decade ago Wikipedia burst into a world not ready to comprehend it. Thousands of people cooperating effectively, without price signals to offer "incentives" or managerial hierarchy to direct efforts was an impossibility. And yet, it moves. And as it moved it combined with a deep shift across many disciplines, from biology and neuroscience to organizational sociology, experimental economics, and social psychology to paint a very different view of who we are, as human beings, and what we are capable of when we build and inhabit systems that rely on our better selves rather than on the cramped, pessimistic view of traditional economic modeling. A decade ago our explanations of Wikipedia depended on the uniqueness of the Net. Today, we are ready to learn the deeper lessons: that we are more cooperative than we came to believe in the last half century, and that our challenges lie in learning how to build a new field of cooperative human systems design not only online, but for our lives more generally as the kind of social human beings we really are.

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  • i love such Technology and Media Presentation..i wud really love to attend one,is it going to happen in India anytime..?

  • @NickDupree Some of the audio is indeed awful and impossible to understand. But it is worth fast forwarding and looking around because some of the speakers come through fine.

  • Yochai starts at 26:30 for the keynote talk.

  • The actual keynote talk is very interesting :)

  • values of cooperation, free information, universal access that are the center of wikipedia , but not of university of haifa

  • The audio of the speakers are unintelligible for me. Please fix.

  • Where can I see his slides?

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