A group of leading IT professionals and venture capitalists has launched a call for the creation of new social networks, consisting of user data in the possession of a public database not owned by a particular company or party and shared in use and employment based on individual user choices, At the same time, it is secure and achieves the highest degree of privacy, replacing the existing social networks that draw their strength and get their returns from user data rather than numbers.
The call was called "The Public Revolution" and was launched on July 16 through revolutionpopuli.com, which presents its goals and founders. It presents a "white document" in all its details, the vision through which it operates, and the model of action it is expected to operate through. In the past few days, a number of experts have described it as the first counter-reaction to current social networks, structured, based on a long-term vision and a clear business model, which may give it an opportunity to influence and spread.
4 goals
Four senior technology experts are behind the call, led by Dr. David Gillerer, one of the world's leading technology thinkers and thinkers, a world-class software scientist and a professor of computer science at Yale University. In the early 1990s, he designed Live Stream, Historically known as the first social networking program.
The second member of the group is Rob Rosenthal, a former CEO of Goldman Sachs, who has been banking and banking for 19 years. The third member is Dr. Paolo Coppola, a renowned multi-talented personality. He is a businessman, doctor, As well as being the co-founder of StatHealth, a specialist in health care information systems. The fourth and final member is Todd Edelotte, one of the leaders of IT marketing in the United States and responsible for managing global promotional and marketing currencies for a range of leading brands.
According to the publication on the advocacy website, the four founders aim to achieve four goals: First: the establishment of a global database using mass-cluster technology, controlled by the public, and is decentralized and owned by users.
The second objective is to enable people to have full and direct control over their personal data and sell it as they see fit, while the third objective is to create and manufacture a social network and data system that removes political and racial bias and all forms of discrimination. Finally, the fourth objective focuses on overthrowing existing digital colonies such as Facebook by making advertisers pay users, not owners, of the data.
"Facebook"
Al-Da'wa's website contains a video in which the four founders provide further explanation on the different points of the call. The first point they made was the motivation that could make people turn into a new social network after they got used to building their Facebook habits. "This is a huge area of work, and developments will take place over decades, not months. The new call is just a step in the right direction, and Facebook is not his fault that he was the first to reach social networking," said Dr. David Gillerer. Surprisingly, there is no desire for anything else, because Facebook is not the end of the story. "
"It's about a so-called killer application, a fast-growing application that benefits millions of users and is a turning point in anything," Rob Rosenthal said. In general, anyone can build applications on them, which opens up the possibility of switching by 1000 applications. "
Rosenthal expects Dr. David Gillerer to introduce a new social network, incredibly stylish in design, and the individual user will be able to access not only music and live video, which is great, but he will also be able to make money for his data and information.
Chicken or egg
The founders also tackled another issue: how to attract programmers and developers to the new network to access multiple types of "killer applications", and whether it starts attracting programmers who create these applications, prompt users to come to the network, or start attracting users, Programmers for the network.
Rosenthal said: "This is closer to the well-known debate about who came first (egg or hen). In this context, the vision of the call sees the beginning to be the creation of a real public database, owned and managed by users."
"The group does not have a perfect deal," said Dr. David Gillerer. "The ball in our court is believed to be a very attractive application. It is our turn to provide beautiful software. It is the beautiful application that will attract people. The strength of this process lies in the fact that the database is important, the application is very important, and then everyone is invited to design its own application.
In order to facilitate the transition from Facebook to the new social network, Gellerter designed a tool that the user can use to download his data from Facebook, and upload it to the new database in just 10 minutes, to open his room for happiness, privacy and gain over the next 10 years. "People will use this tool because it's a beautifully designed application, and if you do not like it, there will be a lot of other applications that you want better," he said.
Rosenthal pointed out that these are not the only problems facing the call for alternative networks. There are issues of encryption, electronic payments and conversion of advertising revenue to users.
Role of Governments
Advocates see the role of governments in this network as closer to what governments have done in the years of setting up the public Internet infrastructure, especially the basic Internet protocols, as well as the public-private partnership model. Otherwise, governments are not the right solution. Solve the problem outside it, it is up to the software thinkers and researchers, to offer something interesting.