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So this is Anna Hazare,

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and Anna Hazare may well be
the most cutting-edge

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digital activist in the world today.

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And you wouldn't know it by looking at him.

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Hazare is a 77-year-old Indian anti-corruption
and social justice activist.

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And in 2011, he was running a big campaign

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to address everyday corruption in India,

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a topic that Indian elites love to ignore.

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So as part of this campaign,

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he was using all of the traditional tactics

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that a good Ghandian organizer would use.

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So he was on a hunger strike,

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and Hazare realized through his hunger

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that actually maybe this time,

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in the 21st-century,

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a hunger strike wouldn't be enough.

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So he started playing around 
with mobile-activism.

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So the first thing he did, he said to people,

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"why don't you send me

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a text message if you support

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my campaign against corruption?"

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So he does this, he 
gives people a short code,

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and about 80,000 people do it.

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Okay, that's pretty respectable.

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But then he decides,

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"let me tweak my tactics a little bit."


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He says, "why don't you leave
me a missed call?"

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Now, for those of you who have
lived in the global south,

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you'll know that missed calls

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are a really critical part
of global mobile culture.

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I see people nodding.

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People leave missed calls all the time:

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If you're running late for a meeting

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and you want to let them know 
that you're on the way,

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you leave them a missed call.

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If you're dating someone and 
you just want to say "I miss you"

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you leave them a missed call.

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So a note for a dating tip here,

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in some cultures,

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if you want to please your lover,

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you call them and hang up.

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So why do people leave missed calls?

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Well, the reason of course is that

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they're trying to avoid charges

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associated with making calls
and sending texts.

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So when Hazare asked people 
to leave him a missed call,

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let's have a little guess how 
many people actually did this?

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35 million.

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So this is one of the largest coordinated
actions in human history.

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It's remarkable.

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And this reflects the extraordinary strength 
of the emerging Indian middle class,

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And the power that their
mobile phones bring.

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But he used that,

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Hazare needed up with this massive 
csv file of mobile phone numbers,

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and he used that to deploy

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real people-power on the ground

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to get hundreds of thousands of
people on the streets in Dehli

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to make a national point of 
everyday corruption in India.

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It's a really striking story.

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So this is me when I was 12-years-old,

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I hope you see the resemblance,

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and I was also an activist,

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and I have been an activist all my life.

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I had this really funny childhood

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where I [tropsed?] around the world

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meeting world leaders and 
Noble Prize winners

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talking about third-world debt,

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as it was then called,

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and demilitarization,

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I was a very, very serious child.

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And back then,

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in the early 90s,

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I had very cutting-edge
tech-tool of my own:

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the fax.

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And the fax was the 
tool of my activism.

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And at that time, it was the best way

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to get a message to a lot of people

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all at once.

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I'll give you one example of a fax
campaign that I ran.

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It was the eve of the Gulf War

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and I organized a global campaign 
to flood the hotel,

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the Intercontinental in Geneva,

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where [name] and [name]

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were meeting on the eve of the war,

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and I thought that if I could 
flood them with faxes,

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we'll stop the war.

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Well, unsurprisingly,

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that campaign was wholly unsuccessful.

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There are lots of reasons for that,

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but there's no doubt that 
one sputtering fax machine

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in Geneva was a little bit
of a bandwidth constraint

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in terms of the ability to 
get a message to lots of people.

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And so, I went on to 
discover some better tools.

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I co-founded Avaaz that uses the 
internet to mobilize people

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and now has almost 
40 million members,

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and I now run Purpose, which 
is a home for these kinds of

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technology-powered movements.

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So what's the moral of this story?

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Is the moral of this story,


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"you know what, the fax is kind of
eclipsed by the mobile phone?

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This is another story of 
tech-determinism?"

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Well, I would argue that there's 
actually more to it than that.

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I'd argue that in the last 20 years,

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something more fundamental has changed


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than just new tech.

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I would argue that there has
been a fundamental shift

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in the balance of power

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in the world.

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You ask any activist how to understand the world,

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and they'll say,

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"look at where the power is,


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who has it,

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how it's shifting?"



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I think we all sense that something
big is happening.

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So Henry Timms and I,

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Henry's a fellow movement builder,

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got talking one day and 
we started to think,

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"how can we make sense of this new world,

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how can we describe it and give

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it a framework that makes it more useful?"


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Because we realize that many

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of the lessons that we were
discovering in movements

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actually applied all over the world

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in many sectors of our society.

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So I want to introduce you to
this framework:

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Old power, meet new power.

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And I want to talk to you about
what new power is today.

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New power is the deployment

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of mass participation and peer coordination,

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these are the two key elements,

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to create change and shift outcomes.

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And we see new power all around us.

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This is Beppe Grillo

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he was a populist Italian blogger

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who with a minimal apparatus
and only some online tools,

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won more than 25 percent of the vote

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in recent Italian elections.

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This is air b&b,

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which, in just a few years,

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radically disrupted the hotel industry

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without owning a single
square-foot of real estate.

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This is Kickstarter,

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which we know has raised over a billion dollars

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from more than 5 million people.

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Now, we're familiar with all of these models.

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But what's striking is the commonalities,

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the structural features of 
these new models

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and how they differ from old power.

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Let's look a little bit at this.

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Old power is held like a currency.

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New power works like a current.

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Old power is held by a few.

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New power isn't held by a few,
it's made by many.

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Old power is all about download,

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and new power uploads.

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And you see a whole set of characteristics

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that you can trace,

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whether it's in media or politics,

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or in education.

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So we've talked a little bit about

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what new power is,

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let's talk for a second about what
new power isn't.

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New power is not your Facebook page.

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I assure you that having a 
social media strategy

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can enable you to do

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just as much download

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as you used to do when you had the radio.

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Just as Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Asad,

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I assure you that his Facebook page

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has not embraced the power
of participation.

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New power is not inherently positive.

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In fact, this isn't an normative
argument that we're making,

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there are many good things 
about new power,

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but it can produce bad outcomes.

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More participation, more peer coordination

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sometimes distorts outcomes

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and there are some things,

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like things, for example, in the medical profession

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that we want new power to get 
no where near.

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And thirdly, new power is not
the inevitable victor.

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In fact, unsurprisingly,

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as many of these new power
models get to scale,

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what you see is this massive push-back

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from the forces of old power.

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Let's look at this really 
interesting epic struggle

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going on right now between 
Edward Snowden and the NSA.

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You'll note that only that


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only one of the two people on this slide

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is currently in exile.

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And so, it's not at all clear

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that new power will be 
the inevitable victor.

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That said, keep one thing in mind:


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We're at the beginning of a
very steep curve.

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So you think about some of 
these new power models, right?

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These were just like someone's

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garage idea a few years ago,

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now they're disrupting 
entire industries.

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And so, what's interesting
about new power,

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is the way it feeds
on itself.

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Once you have an experience of new power,

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you tend to expect and 
want more of it.

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So let's say you've used a
peer-to-peer lending platform

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like Lending Tree or Prosper,

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then you've figured out that
you don't need the bank,

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and who wants the bank, right?

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And so, that experience tends 
to embolden you

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it tends to make you want
more participation

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across more aspects of your life.

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And what this gives rise to is

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a set of values.

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We talked about the models

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that new power has engendered,

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the air b&bs, the kick starters,

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what about the values?


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And this is an early sketch

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of what new power values look like.

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New power values prize
transparency above all else.

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It's almost a religious belief
in transparency

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that if you shine a light on something,

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it will be better.

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And remember that in the 20th-century,

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this was not at all true.

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People thought that gentlemen
should sit behind closed doors

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and make comfortable agreements.

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New power values informal,
networked governance.

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New power folks would have
invented the UN today,

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for better or worse.

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New power values participation,

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and new power is all about

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"do it yourself."

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In fact, what's interesting 
about new power

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is that it eschews some of 
the professionalization

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and specialization that was

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all the rage in the 20th-century.

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So what's interesting about these

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new power values and these
new power models

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is what they mean for organizations.

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So we've spent a bit of time thinking

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"how can we plot organizations

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on a 2x2 where, essentially

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we look at new power values

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and new power models

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and see where different people sit?"

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We started with a U.S. analysis,

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and let me show you some

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interesting findings.

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So the first is Apple.

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In this framework, we actually
described Apple

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as an old power company.

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That's because the ideology,

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the governing ideology of Apple

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is the ideology of the perfectionist,

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product designer in Cupertino.

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It's absolutely about that beautiful,
perfect thing descending upon us,

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in perfection.

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And it does not value, as a 
company, transparency.

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In fact, it's very secretive.

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Now, Apple is one of the most
succesful companies

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in the world.

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So this shows that you can


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still pursue a successful old power strategy.

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But one can argue that there's 
real vulnerabilites in that model.

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I think another interesting comparison

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is that of the Obama campaign

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versus the Obama presidency.

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(Applause)

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Now I like President Obama,

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he ran with new power
at his back, right?

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And he said to people,


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"we are the ones we've
been waiting for."

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And he used crowdfunding

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to power a campaign.

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But when he got into office,

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he governed like,

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more or less,

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all the other presidents did.

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And this is a really interesting trend,

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as when new power gets powerful,

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what happens?


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So this is a framework you 
should look at

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and think about where your
own organization

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sits on it.

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And think about where it
should be 


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in five or 10 years.

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So what do you do if you're old power?

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If you're there thinking,

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in old power,

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"this won't happen to us."

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Then just look at the Wikipedia
entry for the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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Let me tell you,

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it's a very sad read.

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But if you are old power,

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the most important thing

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you can do is to occupy yourself.

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before others occupy you.,

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before you are occupied.

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Imagine that a group
of your biggest skeptics

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are camped in the heart
of your organization

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asking the toughest questions

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and they can see everything
inside of your organization.

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And ask then "would they 
like what they see


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and should our model change?"

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What about if you're new power?


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Is new power kind of just 
riding the wave to glory?

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I would argue no.

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I would argue that there
are some very real challenges

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to new power in this nascent phase.

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Let's stick with the Occupy Wall Street
example for a moment.

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Occupy was this incredible example 
of new power,

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the purest example of new power.

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And yet, it failed to consolidate.

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So they energy that it created

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was great for the mean phase,

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but they were so committed to participation,

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that they never got anything done.

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And in fact that model

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means that the challenge for new power is:

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how do you use institutional power

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without being institutionalized?


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One the other end of the spectra

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is Uber.

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Uber is an amazging,

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highly scalable new power model.

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That network is getting denser and denser

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by the day.

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But what's really interesting 
about Uber is

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it hasn't really adopted new power values.

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This is a real quote from 
the Uber CEO recently:

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He says, "Once we get rid of the 
dude in the car," He means drivers,

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"Über will be cheaper."

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Now, new power models
live and die

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by the strength of their networks.

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By whether the drivers and the consumers


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who use the service actually believe in it.

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Because they're not an exercise 
in top-down perfectionism,

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they are about the network.

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And so, the challenge,

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and this is why it's in
no way surprising,

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that now Uber's drivers 
are now unionizing.

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It's extraordinary.

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Uber's drivers are turning on Uber.

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And the challenge for Uber,

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this isn't an easy situation for them,

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is that they are locked into
a broder super-strcuture

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that is really old power.

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They've raised more than a billion 
dollars in the capital markets.

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Those markets expect a financial return,

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and they way you get a financial return

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is by squeezing and squeezing

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your users and your drivers

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for more and more value

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and giving that value to your investors.

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So the big question

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about the future of new power

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in my view is:

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Will that old power just emerge?


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So will new power elites just become

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old power and squeeze?

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Or will that new power
base bite back?

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Will the next big Uber

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be co-owned by Uber drivers?

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And I think this will be a very interesting

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structural question.

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Finally, think about new power

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being more than just an

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entity that scales things 


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that make us have slightly 
better consumer experiences.

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My call to action for new power

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is to not be an island.

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We have major structural
problems in the world today,

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that could benefit enormously

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from the kinds of mass participation

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and peer coordination

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that these new power players

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know so well how to generate.

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And we badly need them to 
turn their energies and their power

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to big, what economists might call,

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public goods problems,

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that are often beyond markets

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where investors can easily be found.

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And I think if we can do that,

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we might be able to fundamentally change

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not only human being's
sense of their own agency and power,

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because I think that's the most
wonderful thing about new power,

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is that people feel more powerful,

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but we might also be able to change

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the way we relate to each other

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and the way we relate to 
authority and institutions.

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And to me, that's absolutely

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worth trying for.

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Thank you very much.

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(Applause)