Monitorama - Our Most Wicked Problem

@ashedryden our most wicked problem

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@ashedryden let’s talk hype cycles

@ashedryden http://censemaking.com/2012/02/13/the-wicked-problem-of-wicked-problems/

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@ashedryd en ! ! jurassic snark @ashedryden At the intersection
of tech and culture, ending programmer apocrypha. ! Patron Saint of Catmoms.

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@ashedryden our most wicked problem

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@ashedryden the hardest problem in computer science

@ashedryden Women Hispanic Black Asian White 0% 25% 50% 75%
100% Tech Industry US Population

@ashedryden 56% of women

@ashedryden resistance to resolution, rather than evil

@ashedryden four reasons:

@ashedryden incomplete or contradictory knowledge

@ashedryden people & opinions involved

@ashedryden large economic burden

@ashedryden dependency hell

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@ashedryden fam ily & com m unity education industry society
class

@ashedryden family & community education industry society class

@ashedryden class

@ashedryden class education access to technology in-life role models &
mentors free time

@ashedryden class language race & ethnicity gender ability country of
origin & immigration status

@ashedryden characteristics:

@ashedryden understood after potential solution

@ashedryden no stopping rule

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@ashedryden not true or false, but good or bad

@ashedryden no enumerable set of solutions

@ashedryden super wicked problems

@ashedryden solvers are also the creators

@ashedryden change the people, change the system

@ashedryden (hint: the system is made of people)

@ashedryden family & community education industry society class

@ashedryden educating

@ashedryden listening

@ashedryden empathy

@ashedryden collaboration

@ashedryden behavior

@ashedryden influence

@ashedryden power

@ashedryden thanks! i’m @ashedryden

@ashedryden resources •Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wicked_problem •Stanford Social Innovation Review
- http:// www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/ wicked_problems_problems_worth_solving •Petrie Multiplier - http://iangent.blogspot.com/ 2013/10/the-petrie-multiplier-why-attack-on.html •Ethics of Unpaid Labor and the OSS Community - http://www.ashedryden.com/blog/the-ethics-of- unpaid-labor-and-the-oss-community

Monitorama - Our Most Wicked Problem

Monitorama - Our Most Wicked Problem

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