29th
Reflections on Openness
Published today on The Philippine Online Chronicles’ Lintech Channel is the conclusion to a series on Internet in the Philippines and what open really means, titled, “Reflections on Openness.”
The series starts off with a historical overview. It goes back in time to the 1960s, when the technologies we take for granted today was just being imagined. What technologies? The mouse for example.
The series then journeys through the 1970s, a time when PCs were just beginning. It is a brief story on how the Homebrew Computer club where many of today’s moguls like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were very much actively involved in.
By the 1980s and into the 1990s, the story progresses to the Internet and the birth of the world wide web. And when that concluded, a look at the Cathedral and the Bazaar model and why Linux succeeded and failed.
Fast forward to the past decade, and the story briefly discusses social media and how do we make sense of all the data around us.
Finally, a look at the State of the Internet in the Philippines for 2010. Where does the Internet stand? How much does it need to go? How do we compare the state of the Internet in the Philippines with other countries like Thailand and Vietnam and how do we leverage it? Those are the questions being asked and hopefully by the end of that work, you would have gained some insight.
Below is sort of a table of contents for the series.
Part 1: The mother of all demos - the beginnings of hacker culture, and ethics. It goes through a bit of history, how Unix and PCs began
Part 2: In anarchy we trust - this is the story of the Internet and the WorldWideWeb
Part 3: The success and failure of linux - why the meaning of “openness” isn’t what it used to be.
Part 4: Are we a blogging nation? - a discussion on social media
Part 5: The art of curation - how do we make sense of all the data?
Part 6: State of the Internet in the Philippines 2010 - a look at where the Philippines is in terms of Network readiness, how best to leverage the Internet.
