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Social Hackerism: What Could We Learn from the Open Development Model?
PEKKA HIMANEN
The Internet and Linux are impressive creations of the so-called open-source model. They have developed primarily as the product of some enthusiastic individuals just combining their forces in imaginative ways, outside of the traditional structures of corporations and states. If we understand the driving motives, and the social insights, of these people that have changed our world, what other revolutions could we start?
Pekka Himanen, b. 1973, did his Ph.D. dissertation in philosophy at the age of 20 at the University of Helsinki. His latest work is The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age (with Linus Torvalds and Manuel Castells), which has been translated into more than ten languages. This fall, Himanen is publishing another work with Manuel Castells on the social challenges of the information society through the case of Finland. Himanen has been a member of various information society groups, including the President of Finland's advisory group on the network society issues. Currently Himanen divides his time between California and Finland.
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Open Questions
ILKKA TUOMI, Independent researcher
In my talk, I provide a critical perspective to some of the key themes introduced by Pekka Himanen.
Using material from a recently published report, From Periphery to Center:
Emerging Research Topics on Knowledge Society (Tekes Technology Reviews
116/2001), I try to reflect on the emergent themes for research and action.
In the report, I explored topics such as transformation of time-space,
public sphere, regulation, community, interactive media, and ethics. The
report itself is based on interviews with some key information society
thinkers in Europe, the U.S., and Japan. I will also try to listen carefully and summarize the new contributions, insights, and important open issues that are
discussed during the seminar.
Ilkka Tuomi, Ph.D has written books on hackers (Not Only a Hacker's Handbook,
1987), AI (Thought Provoking Machines: Dreams and Nightmares of Artificial
Intelligence, 1989, with Sara Heinämaa), knowledge management (Corporate
Knowledge: Theory and Practice of Intelligent Organizations, 1999), and
innovation theory (Theory of Innovation: Change and Meaning in the Age of
Internet, forthcoming), as well as chapters in a dozen different books
ranging from virtual organizations to philosophy of technology. He has
written articles on information society, electronic democracy, worklife
change, economy, culture, information systems, as well as regular columns
for Tekniikka & Talous since 1994.
Dr. Tuomi has served on national and international committees and working
groups on telematics, learning technologies, Internet regulation, and
economic development. He is currently member of editorial boards of Tiedepolitiikka
(Science Policy), Lifelong Learning in Europe, and First Monday, a
peer-reviewed electronic journal focusing on the Internet and electronic
commerce.
Dr. Tuomi worked in various positions at Nokia Research Center from 1987 to
March 2001, most recently as Principal Scientist, Information Society and
Knowledge Management. Between June 1999 and January 2001 he was visiting
scholar at University of California at Berkeley, working with Manuel
Castells. In Berkeley he studied innovation theory and social collaboration
that created the Internet, World Wide Web, and open source systems, such as
Linux. Currently he is an independent researcher.
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