Erin Kissane, in a presentation has XOXO Festival 2025Explain how Twitter played a decisive role in the crowd of a wide variety of experts to understand what was going on at the start of the cocovio pandemic. Twitter has allowed many “hikes”, or loose social connections that led to Covid monitoring project It was ahead of the CDC and other official sources of information on public health. But as Kissane says, “It is a brand of institutional non-compliance to leave your public health crisis data in the hands of amateurs and volunteers. »» This was the continuous situation in most Western countries, Canada included.
I have shared many stories and perspectives on my own trip to understand this novel Coronavirus which always afflicts us. In 2022 I wrote that Twitter had kept me informed by this pandemic. I had been informed by the networks of experts in the field that shared their knowledge with the public on Twitter. In 2023 I said that the established and institutionalized professional organizations too often lacked the diversity of the thought necessary to deal with complex problems, such as a new coronavirus. And in 2024 I asked, how to rebuild confidence in expertise in a world filled with conspiracy theories and distrust of institutions?
We will not do it on Facebook, which turned out to be a reproductive ground for evil. As Kissane declares, “This is why I wrote a very long and detailed series on what Meta did in Myanmar and how it linked to the Rohingyas genocide.” And Twitter empire day by day as I noted Where twitter (2022) and later notice the Global synesthesia resulting from social networks controlled by companies.
Kissane proposed a solution. It is not for everyone to leave the public sphere and to find private communities – which I hostPBCC) – but rather, in his words, “We set the F * CKRA networks”. She suggests that people who improve networks by their presence should be involved in the experimentation of better networks, and uncontrolled in a centralized manner or promoting fear and reluctance. A solution, or at least an experience in progress, is the Fediverse, whose mastodon is a part – Meet me on mastodon.
Kissane closes by declaring that it is time to build and test networks that can allow the sharing of democratic knowledge so that we are ready for the next crisis. For me, this reinforces the idea that leadership in a network company helps make networks smarter, more resilient and capable of making better decisions, or more succinctly – Sow good seeds.
