Participation Age

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The Participation Age is term which describes the changes in societies and economies brought on by open source software projects, social software, and Web 2.0 technologies, as well as increasing access to the Internet and network services via web enabled mobile phones. The concept is nearly synonymous with Tim O'Reilly's Architecture of participation[1]. The term Participation Age is used to suggest this is the next economic transformation, and the successor to the Information Age.

The concept of the Information Age giving way to the Participation Age was first proposed by Jonathan I. Schwartz, at the time President and Chief Operating Officer of Sun Microsystems, in a keynote address to the Open Source Business Conference on 5 April 2005 [2]. The actual term "Participation Age" was coined by Schwartz the night prior to the speech in his blog [3].

The subject of participatory computing, in various forms, received significant media attention in the first half of 2005, culminating with Business Week's 20 June 2005 cover story "The Power of Us" [4].

In February of 2006 Forrester Research concluded easy network connectivity enabled by low-cost devices, with access to shared, modular content will have a profound impact on economies and social structure, and will require changes in corporate management philosophies [5].

In October of 2006, Cisco Systems began a marketing campaign around almost identical themes to the Participation Age. Cisco calls this the Human network.

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