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WAX Drivers

The following table shows the detailed drivers output from the group I was a member of, thanks in particular to the ideas of Tom Steinberg from MySociety. Original picture can be found here.

t of changes do we need to make in order to respond to:

Need for Openness & personalisation

  • APIs
  • Rising trust in 3rd parties over whom we have no control
  • User power
  • Participation
  • Falling cost & increasing sophistication of collaborative filtering
  • Self actualisation
  • Self expression

Need for profit

  • Outsourcing
  • Off shoring
  • Deregulation
  • Lower cost of entry (development is easier)
  • Low Hardware costs
  • User created content

Need to cope with changing markets

  • Globalisation
  • Speed of change
  • Proliferation of devices
  • Rising relevancy of services to increasing percentage of population
  • Deregulation
  • Speed of broadband

Need for simplicity

  • Proliferation of username/password
  • Proliferation of identity solutions
  • Accessibility
  • Ease of use
  • Simplicity
  • Nationalisation of ID
  • Falling fear of the internet

 

Published Friday, May 12, 2006 9:51 AM by Matt Deacon

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