experience:
Caroline
Caroline
22 November 2008, Bangalore: Some people one knows by circling around them and finding your self to be in the same environment again and again. This is how I have known Sunil Abraham for many years
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Sunil Abraham
Center for Internet and Society, Bangalore India
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Sunil Abraham is a Bangalore based social entrepreneur and Free Software advocate. Currently he is Director Policy at the recently started Center for Internet and Society. He founded the software
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Sunil Abraham argues that an individual exists online because of transactions online, not because of having a webpage. You have to do transactions all the time to prove your existence in time and
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Presence and trust raise the issue of authenticity. Online there is hegemony of text. Existence on the Internet only occurs in the infrastructure of knowledge. This subverts existing authenticities
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When tuning one’s presence when one is about to become each other’s witness, this tuning is actually a testing of the boundaries of the social contract. Like the handshake is a tuning, as are two
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Young people experience ‘giving data away’ as establishing authenticity online. That is how one exists online, by opening one self up. Older generations do not experience this as such yet,
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Sunil Abraham is deeply involved with the open source community. He defines open source as follows: to ensure that intangible goods will have the same properties as tangible goods when acquired for
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The building of software is all publicised. Therefore in an Open Source community one works for an audience. Failed performance towards the deadline of a release date damages someone’s reputation
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Abraham argues that Autonomous Systems consolidate human behaviour and change human behaviour. They can only emerge out of a practice of reflexivity. For example Google gives credibility to a page
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When downloading an Open Source patch, trust is mediated through open source software, open communication and trusted encrypted download protocol that has not been hacked so far. One only needs a
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experience:
SunilCaroline Nevejan
SunilCaroline
Full transcript including film fragments you find at: http://www.systemsdesign.tbm.tudelft.nl/witness
Hereunder the transcript in text.
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