The Fourth Platform clarified – the Social Sector
Over on her blog, Laurel does as brilliant job of expanding on a very important penny that was dropped and jelled at the Connecting Up Conference earlier in the week.
It’s reflected in the comment I jotted down here while liveblogging. During his keynote, Daniel Ben-Horin from Compumentor made reference to the emergence of a fourth platform. Mike Twittered it at the time as this : “May 14, 2007 Mike Seyfang: Now it gets interesting – Daniel Ben-Horin: the fourth platform (the terrain has shifted)”
This whole “Social Sector”, as Laurel terms it, encompasses all the elements of ‘Free as in Freedom’ and is an economy of sharing that builds with relationship and thrives on openness and connection. All the things that amplify an individual’s life ‘signal’.
Here’s a snippet from Laurel’s post “dotSub and the fourth Social Sector”
Social Sector is destroying companies and doesn’t even notice. Government – watch out, Social Sector is only about activism, without even realising it.
Get over there and read it all. Go on…you know you want to.
Dave
(Photo by 4MAX, via flickr)
[tags]cu07, social sector, activism, fourth platform, openness, freedom, signal[/tags]
Are we entering the fourth age hon? Fourth Sector, fourth platform, fourth screen (mobile). Anyway, thanks for the positive linkylink
Comment by Laurel Papworth — May 20, 2007 @ 3:40 am
Dunno about ‘we’ but I am in the fourth decade!
Comment by Dave the Lifekludger — May 20, 2007 @ 12:21 pm