USI 2009 Session

Key points: 

• ‘Web 2.0’ is a new peer-production-centric model of business/strategy/organization 
• It is already being applied in a range of industrial contexts, not just the consumer Internet :  Innovation, supply chains, internal organization 
• These applications create big opportunities for a layered ‘stack’ of platform industries : Similar to the architecture of information systems 
• With some social intervention, large-scale problems can and will be addressed by applying this model : Urban transportation, broadband infrastructure, health care...