The Great Leveling

Documentary ( broadcasted on BBC) about the virtual revolution which talks about how the internet has had an impact on  different country's and people all around the world. 

Africa (case study about the web)

• Broadband in Africa, Small town in Ghana which was the first place to access internet.
• Power to people, gives them a voice
• ' Next content to be re-shaped by the media'
• Quote- ' Connecting Humanity' - From Sir Tim Berners-Lee
• Web allows someone to create fans and an audience (UGC - User Generated Content)

Other facts and statistics

• 2 Billion are now online and visit web everyday
• web creates wealth
• creates generation of well knowledge
• Express opinions
• equal voice/potential
• power for the ordinary people
• Breaks the Hierarchy 
• Challenge business models- profit and control

Wiki

• Quote ' Against Wikipedia' - Lee
• Best source on the internet
• Quote - 'Ordinary people shape knowledge together'  - Ory
• Free, open source - anyone can post and edit the information provided
• Wikipedia is used by 65 million people
• blogging's - provides the audience with no limit of self expression  
• 14 million post articles
• Accuracy? on Wikipedia

Bill Gates and Al Gore

•  web in this century is how mankind communicate
• The internet is becoming an empower tool
• Web gives power and reach
• Web is remarking our words
• challenges authority Vs spying/ censorship
• The world wide web has now created a digital divide.
• 40% of men watch porn
• 5 million people use dating websites every month
• West London - where majority of the people use blogs and overall 18 Million people use it.
• Quote- ' Internet powering the brain' - Bill gates

 
Other facts

• 35 million people log on ( UK)
• 8 Million - tracked.
• £Billion a week
• Well ( 1985)

 

Kenya – Ushahidi ( case study ) Web allows you to report abuse.

Kenya public post examples of attacks and abuses towards the public. This then forces the government to intervene and take action on the people who are conducted the abuse towards the public inside of Kenya. This is an example of the power of the web. 

 

 

 

Important dates

 

•  1960 - Libertarianism - Being able to do something without the Governments power, freedom
• 1960 - US military first to use the internet structure
• 1965 - Email was introduced
• 1985 - 'The Well' was created in Sans Francisco 

• 1991 – The first website went online.
  

  ( HTML – computer language, universal language (allowed interaction)
• 1995 - 'Internet Explorer was launched ( Microsoft owned 95% of the market
• 1999 -' napster' was created
• 2005 - The first video was published on ' YouTube'