The reason I want to review Black Friday is that it neither sounds, if you don't know who made this game, it neither sounds nor looks like the kind of game that me and Scott would like. Well, no, I mean, it's a game made by Friedman Freese. Oh, yeah. You don't know who made it. So Friedman Freese is this guy with green hair who made Power Grid, which I think in German is called funkin German. All his games, all his games begin with the letter F, not all of them as we learned. No, not all. His games are, you know, FF something like fresh fish. Yeah. And they come in a green box, just like his hair. That's how you can tell when it's his game. So Black Market is another, I can't believe how many games this dude has made. But I thought he played every game, but no, there's another one. It's called Black Market. There's a short list of probably like six. What's the German name of Black Market?  All right. Black Friday. I mean, is it something Friday? Like, I don't know. I'll try to look it up. Something else. Three day or who knows? But Friedman Freese is almost tied with Kenizia, I think for reliably able to scratch an itch that Red Men's Scott have related to gaming of the name of the first game in the frik tag. Oh, it's in a project. Ah, but yours is something years it from 2010. So it's pretty old. It's pretty old. But anyway, I'd never seen this game before or I've never seen it in a store. I've never seen it played. I didn't even know it existed. But then there it was. So what I'm saying that like, oh, this doesn't look like at surface value a game that women's got would play.  We didn't use paper money. We use chips, right? Yeah. Use chips, but paper money, paper money. Anyway, so what this game is about Black Friday stock market, Black Friday. As in the day, the stock market crash, right? So there's it's really hard to explain the exact rules. So I'm not going to. But basically what this game amounts to is that there is silver and over time, silver will increase in value. It starts off real cheap. What, like 20 bucks or something? 50 to 100. I think it goes from 50 to 100. I forget. Anyway, it starts off. It goes from zero and it starts going up. Anyway, it starts off cheap and gets expensive. When it hits the top, that's when the game ends, right? Yep. When silver hits its max value, I'm pretty sure that's one of the things that ends the game. And basically victory points is money is money, but silver is basically the money you have at the end of the game. So you can get money and you can use that money to either buy more stocks or convert it to silver. Once you convert it to silver, you can't turn it back into money. I can't sell. I didn't see any way to sell silver. You can't sell silver. But you want. So if you, in most games, you're trying to figure out like, all right, when do I like a Puerto Rico? I obviously early game doubloons are worth more and late game victory points are worth more. Obviously because victory points are all that matter. But if you go for victory points right away in Puerto Rico, you'll have no doubloons and no barrels, and then you won't be able to get more victory. It's like race for the galaxy. Don't do the X to consume on the second round. Right. You know, that's how most German Euro climbing games work is that you have to build this resource engine, crank it up just exactly the right amount of efficiency and then pull the levers that it starts producing victory points at the right time and the right amount, but still also producing resources to get even more victory points so that you can basically completely exhaust all resources at the exact end of the game to have the most possible victory points. Because there's a timer in the way.  In Black Friday, if you go for victory points early, you could just buy a silver right away, and it's so cheap that you kind of want to. But your upside is at most 80. That's still a really good upside. Yeah. Compared to later in the game, you buy one at like 90, and it's you get your upside at 10. Yeah, but I might have five shares of a stock that ends up being worth like 200 each. Right. So that's the thing is that the only other thing you can do really is engage in the stock market that's hella risky and is based on pulling random cubes out of a bag. Now the stock market in this game is shockingly. I'm not going to say accurate to the real stock market.  It's accurate in its motion. In terms of liquidity affecting price and momentum. And in terms of this game is designed to form bubbles. So I start buying a stock and it goes up a little bit. So I buy a stock, which means I get a cube and we put a cube in the bag. Of the same color, same stock. Rim buys one and we put another one in the bag, right? And now if there's a lot of cubes in the bag, this stock has a good chance of going up. But then if everyone keeps buying it and the cubes come out of the bag, which makes the price go up, right? And then people buy more cubes and the price goes up. But now there's not a lot of cubes in the bag. Because the price is up, fewer people are buying. So the game comes down to. So because the price went up from people buying it, people start selling. And now there's black cubes in the bag. And when black cubes come out of the bag, prices go way down. So you're trying to buy stocks that have cubes in the bag. And then once the cubes come out of the bag, you want to sell right away and things get cray. Yep. And a stock's price can move a significant amount. But all these, it's really hard to explain all the ways the stocks will move without just teaching you, literally, the entire game. There's a crazy grid of numbers. And they move up, left, down, and right. And it's all weird and stuff. And there's events that aren't really encoded in the board that you just have to know by reading the rule book. It's like when the third cube is taken, then this thing happens. And we reprice all the stuff. But unlike a lot of board games, the one saving grace is that as long as at least one person at the table fully understands all those rules, they can facilitate all the parts of the game that are complicated. And even if you don't fully understand what they're doing, you can still understand enough to realize when that you figure out, OK, I don't completely understand which cubes are moving where. But I know enough to know that this stock is bubbling, that one's tanking, that one's on the rise. And you can just tell, right? Before there was, as we played the game a few times, it wasn't until like towards the end of the first playthrough that I fully understood how all the rules of all the cube movement. But I knew something was about to crash. I was still 100% right about what was happening in the market regardless, because it moves naturally. The game has a lot of great moments, like I buy a stock and Scott buys the same stock right after me.  So the first time he played, I won. And what happened was his rim bought a stock. And then it was then he went first. And it was everyone else's turn. And I said, all right, everyone, rim bought what color? I forget. It was like pretend it was blue.  Everybody orange rim went blue. If we go blue, we're going to put a bunch of blue cubes in the bag and help rim all of us orange.   It was totally great. And I won. So what's really fascinating, too, is that the game's very the game looks like. And when you first start to learn, it even feels like it's going to be very fiddly number heavy in terms of like someone who's not good at math could have significant analysis paralysis trying to decide what to do. If you try to analysis paralysis this game, don't play this game.  You don't need to know the exact number. Fascinating how well very simple heuristics on the board like, are there a lot or a small number of green cubes on deck for the green stock? Are there a lot or a small number of them in this other area? How many black suitcases are in the bag? Really simply heuristics like that gets you 99% as far as trying to calculate actual probability. Where is the price of silver right now? The game seems to, because the numbers are too like, odds are really difficult to calculate to the point that I don't think anyone playing this game could feasibly do it. The fact that it's effectively impossible for the majority of players means that people won't even try to do it. And this game I think is really good at fostering surprisingly nuanced heuristics in players who don't fully understand the logic of the heuristics they're using. I think another great thing about this game is simply that it has the classic drama we see so often of pulling stuff out of a bag. Oh, bag drama is one of my favorite things now. I think we're seeing you, Frades. What's the one with the digging for treasure? Oh, Theven. Theven, right? Any game where you pull stuff randomly out of a bag is the awesomest, right? I'm way into bag pulling right now. So, I mean, even Rah.  But basically, even though there were situations where it's like, I know that bag is like 100% blue cubes. Oh my God, this is going to happen. And then after they finish pulling stuff out of the bag.  It's like all black suitcases and blue ends up going down. Even though it's like, oh my God, why? Why?  And you totally get boned against the odds just like in the real stock market. And that creates a lot of drama, which is fun, even if it's not the best in terms of like making it a skill game. Yeah, but unlike the real world stock market is not a school skill game. It's full of luck and risk and nonsense. Unlike say Camel Up, which has a very high luck factor for that sort of drama. This game has a very high skill factor despite all that nonsense. Well, because that's pretty much the only luck is the pulling things out of a bag, right? I can't think of any other luck sources in the game. Well, you start with an initial loadout of some stocks. Oh, your initial loadout is random, but it effectively doesn't matter because everyone is not an FF. Schwartz or free tag. Oh, okay. Black Friday. It still has an F. That's gotta be the word for Friday. So black Friday. Well, Schwartz definitely means black in Germanic languages. Yep, black fro and they use currency symbols. Okay, that's cute. But yeah, the game is just kind of like pendante. This game had a similar feel in the sense that this was a game that greatly exceeded my somewhat low expectations and was way more fun than I expected. And as a result, got way more of our precious Pax tabletop hours than I expected. We played this game, what, three times? Yeah, so if you're a person who likes stock market type things, right? And you like playing one of the stock market games or you buy stocks with fake money.  And then you wait for the real market to move and you play that game over multiple days, right? And you say, who has the most money at the end of a month? Everyone starts with $1,000 of fake money. This gives you all the more fun than that in only a couple hours. And the only thing you're missing out on is the real world stock market stuff, right? You can play this game real quick if everyone you're playing with is smart. You only need one person to 100% know all the rules. That's important because... But that person better 100% know all the rules perfectly. Yeah, because you're trusting them. You're also trusting them to not cheat. But most of the weird complexity that you might imagine this game has, like I said, it distills really simply into heuristics that are digestible. And this game, in terms of the ebb and flow and deciding when to shift from money generation to better victory point money generation because it's all just money in the end, it's similar to St. Petersburg. Yeah. Like you have your two modes and you're flipping between them. The other great thing about this game is that your turns are really simple. It's like, come see your turn. It's like, you can buy some stock. You can sell some stock. You can buy some silver. It's like, there's not really... It's a lot like ticket to ride. We're in very modern design.  There isn't a lot of like, hmm, I'm going to move this, but where do I move it kind of stuff? Yeah, and a consequence of that is that there's a lot of table banter. It's like, I'll buy a blue cube. That's my turn. Go. Lots of table banter and player interaction. Like, come on, Scott. Green's hot. Join me. Buy some green stock with me. We'll make out like bandits. Except we went against rim. We did the smart thing. Don't get on the rim team. Everyone getting up on rim and that totally worked. Like in that picture, which is what you should be doing every time. I tell you to do that. See how well it worked. Do it again. Every single game we play, getting up on rim. In the three ongoing long form Civ games I have, the first one, the big crew one that they came up on rim. So the entire world has been at war with me for like a hundred years. Good job, world. Literally the entire world is at war with me. Good job, world. Good job. And yet, despite that, the only consequence is I lost my worst city. I'm still actually doing fine. Do better at the game, people. In the Patreon game, I feel like I'm running away with it. No one can stop me. I'm sure the other people are just not that good. So one person who I know is good just got F'd because basically Egypt was like on this continent, like in a line to the south of them was me in Persia. And I just rolled Persia. So I'm right up on Egypt's border and Poland rolled someone. So Poland and me are these two massive land, like war empires. And Egypt was this strip of culture between the two of us. You know, Black Friday, I think it would be a fun game to play online. If it was an online version, I could just play, you know, you could play one in like an hour or whatever. Especially if a computer did it for you, it would be so fast. But I feel like playing it physically with people is the only way this game is found. But what I'm saying is that I would really like it even more if someone made a somewhat similar stock market game where there's like a fake market and stocks go up and down. Except it's more real time if it's digital, right? So how are you a little more mule trading? Right.  You've got dials on all your stocks, buy or sell. And it's like, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy. And basically the stocks, the stocks are moving in real time and you're basically simulating like a day of day trading or something. But obviously it only takes an hour that the clock has sped up and then you play. As long as that feedback loop, because this game, I just can't stress enough, I'm not even gonna try to explain the details of the feedback loop of how stock prices get determined in this game. You just gotta read the rules.  But it is a fascinating mechanism. If I ever get the chance to interview Friedman Freese, the first question I'm gonna ask you. How did you come up with this? Yeah. How did you play, test and design this specific mechanism in sports or free tags? Cause I made a lot of games. So I'm good at genius game maker. So yeah, I don't know if this game is for everybody, but if you like stocks and you like, you're okay playing games that are a little bit hard to understand. Well, I'd say you got, you like to play for an hour with, you know, four or five, six. Is it go to six people? Eh, let me check actually. If you are the kind of person who shows up at your friend's houses. But I don't know how you're gonna find it. If you're the kind of person who shows up at the friend's houses with the games, or you're the one who like runs games for people, this is a must buy because you'll know the rules. You can do the annoying part. And people will really have fun with this game. Like people who play board games, I feel like. Yeah. But I think that this might not be a fun game for people who chafe at things that are complicated. They're like, eh, I might buy it. Cause I fit two to five. How do you get to find a copy? Uh, I bet I can find a copy. All right. Well, uh, Amazon right now, $54. That's not the worst. It's not great. I mean, I paid one like 80 for La Cheetah. And I've played that three times in my life. Okay. Well, whatever. I'm hungry. Yeah, but this is a good game. Yeah.


Okay, good afternoon everybody. I think that we can start with this session. Hope you had a good coffee break or tea break Thank you for joining this session. We are going to tell you a very about a very special network called a network of open organizations Which was formed in March 2020 and I would also like to welcome on the stage other network members That includes from right to left cable green from clear your comments paola corti from spark Europe and polimi DJ DJ, what's your designation? DJ again? in Idaho State Board of Education. Thank you Paul Paul Stacey Paul Stacey Roy global something. Yeah, and Juliana Greatly Julien Greenlee from ICD and much more or less from open education global So these are just the ones who are attending the session today These are representing these individuals are representing different organizations And obviously myself as he got less go from open education global So the network of open organizations comprises numerous organizations and also leaders in open education And it has been coordinated by open education global Since pretty much March 2020 As you can see the membership includes numerous organizations at this point in time So that's creative commons as well spark spark Europe the Idaho state of board education ICD as Well as Wikimedia Wikimedia Foundation European Institute for Learning Innovation and Cooperation We have got ISC me. We have got ICD or your advocacy committee. We have got several IGOs including UNESCO So you can you can see from the list of this. It's a fairly extensive membership in the network It was really initiated in response to the UNESCO your recommendation that was adopted in 2019 and at that point in time at open education global specifically and I must just say that also Paul was very instrumental behind the conceptualization of the network and the formalization as well We were thinking about what we can do as organization to support the implementation of the of the recommendation And then we also realized that actually there are many other players many other organizations that are trying to do something about it And so we decided that it's better to actually join forces and to cooperate Rather than duplicate efforts And so that was the main idea behind the formation of the network and there was an initial meeting actually in March 2020 After the four months after the recommendation was adopted when we met in Paris with several other organizations That was lead the meeting was led by open education global again with Paul's as well here It was actually a strange meeting wasn't it? Yeah, because That was that was yeah when covid started hitting and so we remembered and we came to Paris and we started watching those statistics And it was like a hundred cases and everybody was really starting to get worried And so we just got out and I think a couple of weeks later the entire world shut down for quite a long time So in any case we managed to formalize the network during that meeting which was wonderful and We have really the objective of the network initially was to really implement To support the implementation of the UNESCO YAR recommendation, but the mission has since evolved We also work on sort of large-scale open education efforts that require coordinated action And that's the main reason now behind the networks Existence but obviously we still support implementation of the UNESCO YAR recommendation as well We are you know the membership in the network is really open to any organization that is supporting the mission The vision or the philosophy of the network you will be able to read up about all of those on the networks website We will share the link with you towards the end of the presentation And the way that this works is that members we meet monthly during like coordination meetings And where we share respective updates organizational updates about what we are doing in support of the UNESCO YAR recommendation And other open education events and that we are our activities that we are working on We also discuss possibilities for promoting the network during different events such as this one for example today We also dedicate some time to discussing big picture ideas or items For example, there's been some discussions about the role of policies or effectiveness of open education policies Vicky data for education or the role of AI in open which was also led by Paul recently all of these outputs are available on the network website and Obviously all of this is done collaboratively so participating organizations at the agenda take notes collaboratively Yeah, there is but the overall coordination is taken by by open education global and just to share with you a couple of these Outputs that we worked on collaboratively as a network This is one of those is the OER recommendations actions metrics So when the recommendation was adopted we started thinking what can we do as the network to support the implementation of the recommendation and So the metrics actually proposes some very concrete action areas for both governments and institutions that they can consider to help With the implement to help support the implementation efforts under the five main Action areas, so it's kind of like a guide And this is available also on the network website And we are also very happy that the big sections of it actually have been reused recently in the UNESCO briefing notes That I think that were published in the draft format on the OER Africa website in July And I think that the finalization of that is going to be sometimes next year probably Then we also worked on several case studies this initiative was Well one thing that we need to showcase is the impact of of the movement They are and the best way to do that is really through case studies And so this the specific initiative was coordinated by OER Africa where different network members collaborated on on preparing different case studies to demonstrate the To demonstrate how OER can be used to improve excess improve learn outcomes or reduce cost Or facilitate professional development opportunities this collection of case studies are available on the OER Africa website So we really do encourage you to to peruse them And here are just some observations from participants in the network in terms of what they value About about being part of the network, you know Big part of it is really for everybody to have the opportunity to learn to share to collaborate from others Yeah, and the important part is also to not duplicate efforts But you can read up on these Reflections in your own time, but in the meantime, I think I'm gonna stop speaking and I would really like to give an opportunity To the other members sitting here to maybe express their views or make some comments or just kind of the audience to ask questions That was rather quick Well, I guess maybe one thing I would say is that it is important for you to realize that the network of open orgs is Is open for anyone to participate in and there's no cost There's it's free the major commitment really is around participating in the monthly meetings and Those monthly meetings serve as a mechanism for all of those that are participating to share news about what they're doing in the field of Open education what they're doing around supporting the UNESCO OER recommendation and then Often out of those meetings There's sort of small subgroups that form around a particular initiative or opportunity and those groups can then meet Separately from the big monthly meeting, but it is an open an open call and really the whole idea is Can we work and achieve a bigger impact together than we currently achieve? separately and the whole idea is the UNESCO OER recommendation in particular Created a big opportunity for open education But it's hard to help fulfill what the recommendation promises when we're all just a bunch of separate siloed little Organizations and so the idea is can we join forces and collectively work on something that has a bigger impact. Thanks Paul anybody else cable I Guess two two comments One just to be self-critical I think we've not yet accomplished what we had out to accomplish which was to help with the implementation of the rec So we've done a lot of good work, and we've created some resources And we're a bunch of orgs that don't usually work together this tightly And we are meeting monthly and sharing and helping each other and that's all really good progress But I think what we always dreamed and probably still dream in the group is You know and this is was one of the ideas around the matrix that we created is that we could go to a national government and say You are a signatory of the recommendation on we are We are a group of organized organizations with a set of a menu of services Against the specifics and the recommendation and we can we're actually ready today to help you implement And so would you like to work with us? And I think we're still headed toward that That's something that I think a lot of us want to do And we just haven't quite gotten there yet But I think that's still a that's still something we want to do And then the second comment I make is as I was talking this morning the keynote and I was saying hey We need to you know build a plan for the future I think as we as we do that and also as we just try to help governments implement the wreck on OER There's so much work to be done if you just look at the matrix just the recommendation itself Has five sections and you know seven sub sections in each of those five sections. It's tremendously Detailed and then we went in at that detailed level and said here's where our orgs have expertise Have capacity and could actually not for free like we'd want the governments to fund our work But we can support and help at these levels and so you know when you look at it at that very tactical level There is a ton of work that needs to be done And I would argue that the orgs that are currently part of the network of open orgs and there are many of us There probably aren't enough of us and as as you heard from both Paul and Igor There's an open invitation to join so I mean this is truly an all-hands-on-deck effort that's needed there are What is it a hundred and ninety three member states and then the US just rejoined UNESCO recently so a hundred and ninety four I think it is now And that's a lot right. It's a lot of governments to work with and we don't have the capacity to work with I'm all right now and so if you're interested in this kind of work You know first we'll stir we're still we're still figuring out. How do we do this? How do we work with UNESCO? So that you know, maybe eventually we can get UNESCO to help advertise these types of services How do we get organized Igor has done great work recently with the the website so that we can be clearer With the world about what we're ready to do in terms of providing support services So it's I would say it's the right idea not fulfilled yet, but we're pointed in the right direction Thank you and just to clarify. This was a collaborative effort as well about the website. Thank you cable. I can't take the credit But if I if while we are speaking while you are speaking TJ as well, I can I just ask our Support team to please click on the URL network of open org dot org So that we can showcase the website as well because actually today is a special day because we are actually just launching the website for the first time today Yeah So I'll I'll just add on this invitation from Paul and and re-emphasized by cable The you saw the list of organizations I think I'm a little bit of an oddball out because I actually am in the Ministry of Education for a governmental entity And potentially one of those that would want to be influenced by this Network But I think what that speaks to is how open it is We in Idaho are doing a lot of work around open and so we consider ourselves an open org And so I think there's a broad Definite someone correct me if I'm wrong in terms of this invitation But you might not see yourself in this because you might work for an institution or you might work for something that wouldn't consider itself an Open org like some of the others that are dedicated to openness in their missions But I think there's a space for this even if that's just thinking through I bring a perspective to this That's a little different because I work on the policy issues or on the on the tactical things are implementing that and I would say Idaho Leaders probably don't even know that this recommendation exists Upward and we're thinking about how do we how do we connect into that without saying the word UN because that's a dirty word in Idaho? Unfortunately, and so how do we connect to the work without without some of the political baggage that comes in our context? I think some of these things are things that the network needs to consider And so we haven't had those conversations yet and we'll probably have them next But I just wanted to expand that from why I'm sitting up here Thank you DJ Paula Yes, so maybe that's the value of having you in the network of open hours because you bring that perspective that none of us can bring in and It's interesting for example from my perspective to look into the work of the other organizations to find ways to better do my job and advocate in a more effective way at The national level in order to at least ignite the dialogue and start the conversation find someone who is willing to discuss at the governmental level about recommendation that they signed so somehow they committed to implement and They have people around willing to help so the network of open hours can also help me and the people with me To find better ways to be effective Okay. Yeah, so I think I just wanted to say Julianne Grandley from ICD the fact that the network of open orgs is actually very much a forum of organizations that share the same ideas or the Same values we are all working for one purpose while we're in those meetings and we're it's a Community that feels very safe and really Productive in the sense that this is a place to come to and discuss ongoing work But also to air out challenges or really have that conversation And I think that's been very meaningful to do in a space of organizations That might be different from the conversations you would have in different other forums Thank you very much Julianne. So anything from your side Well, maybe just to underscore the network word and how that means collaboration and That the network does not intend to have solution to everything But the opposite like having a space where we can try to find together solutions to the many problems that every One of us as organizations are facing So it's really just a space as Julianne saying like a safe space where we can really address The questions and issues that all the four organizations are facing. Thank you very much The perspectives and yes, I just to build on what cable was saying earlier that we certainly haven't accomplished the mission yet And in many ways, we are actually going to be relooking at that mission as well going forward Like what should be our purpose going forward as well? Yes working on these collaborative projects is very important But what kind of more like call to action can we have for example, you know That is aligned around helping for example in cases like Paul are you speaking about, you know, in With the implementation in Italy, for example or other areas And it's also important to to coordinate with other players in the in the field like Colin was just speaking about the upcoming unit We network, right? And so we always coordinate, right? So it's important to share information about these kinds of entities So that we do not duplicate efforts But on the contrary we actually Amplify our joint efforts, you know in many ways like what you were speaking to as well Earlier on cable during your keynote about that sort of implementation plan that was that was Prepared in relation to diamond open access for example. Yeah Any other comments or questions we can also open up questions from the audience? Yep, Antonio You can just go to the you can just go to the microphone, please so that the audience can hear also those who are watching Thank you. I think it's a fantastic initiative. I congratulate congratulate you all I'm you know, I think I can say that in our university with we would be interested in Contributing to your work. I have seen that there are a number of universities there. I'm sure this will be Very attractive and very interesting for other universities in the world But I have a question that it is probably a bit difficult, but you know, I think that's why we are here to Challenge ourselves with difficult questions that United Nations mandate, you know, it's for nation states But the majority of nation states on this planet do not have resources for the type of programs and interventions that are necessary To embed openness Then there are other states like the one I live in where our government or our state the British state Doesn't care about this and it's a question of who people vote and why The other states like Spain where I'm from there are almost federal states and the responsibilities for Universities and education reside within regional state governments You go and talk to the government of Spain and the government of Spain will say you need to talk to the other people and then In the middle of that there is a complexity of you know agents with decision-making power who perhaps The the network should be looking at engaging with when I had Cable talking about governments. I was thinking well Perhaps it may be few examples in the world with positive engagement of governments But I think it is a question of engaging with Whomever has the budget and whoever has the the power to actually Implement and propose solutions and in many cases is universities and is the leaders of these universities So how is your approach to engagement beyond engaging nation states or ministries of education? Thank you. Thank you, Antonio. I would like to react to that Okay, we'll take turns answering this I think it's a little bit of demand and push right it's a bit of a push-pull thing so I think ideally we would prefer to have To say hey here. We are and here's all the things we can do and if you need help come and talk to us But we also recognize that we we also need to put ourselves out there and kind of say and be proactive about finding those opportunities Yeah, and I was I mean resonated your comment resonated with me as a as a Representative the deputy minister of one of those states That probably exists in a lot of countries some countries are a lot more top-down, but I imagine most are not And so it's a lot very distributed and and getting to the right people or what action makes sense If I just think about the United States the US Department of Education has very little impact on Education it's seven percent of the funding for for higher education comes from the federal government the rest of it comes from the state and It's the same as true in K-12. It's just special education. It comes from the federal government So there's not a really fiduciary lever there either so that means you really are dealing with 50 Independent nations in a way on that side, so there may be work we can do to help Nations in that model know what what how to implement these recommendations in their distributed model which will look different from Small other nations that don't have that model and that's something I don't know that we've addressed yet But I'm very curious about it because I don't interact with the United States Department of Education Hardly at all on anything and if they told us to do something we probably wouldn't do it so It has to happen some other way So I'll be I'll be a bit provocative and I'll push back on one of your premises I think that So I try to do this in my talk this morning, too I think all governments of the world regardless of how many resources they have If you sat down with their Minister of Education, they would all say yes education is important And they would acknowledge that they signed the recommendation on OER and then if you got into a conversation with them They would say yes, education is a public good and if you have enough time with them and you walk through open education They would Agree if they're reasonable rational Actors that in fact open is probably better on many variables than closed And if all they care about is money Then you look at the money that they're already spending in existing budgets and you explain to them how if they did Some of that open versus closed it would actually save them Money if money is what they care about and so I I have found that it There's always an opportunity to work with any country But you're absolutely right and that you've got to get to the right people who have the right authority And sometimes that doesn't come immediately. So you so we talked about being at a university. You're at a university Sometimes in fact, we were doing this last week at the CC summit We don't have direct national government contacts for example in Bangladesh And so we met with the one of the senior administrators of the open University of Bangladesh Who does have those contacts and because what we want Bangladesh to do is to essentially join the open climate campaign and require that All their future research is open by default And so we had to find the right pathway But the goal was still the national government and so what we're doing is we're arming the our advocate in country Who happens to be the head of? finance for the open University of Bangladesh his name is mostafa and He will go make the arguments to the government and if and only if he needs us to come in We'll get on a plane and go but we'll follow his lead He may not need us what he may need is for us to help him write policy and to write drafts and to create arguments and to To lay out this lay out the sequence of the argument so that he can go make it in in his way in local language in the with the appropriate political decorum that it requires that he knows better than we do and so My pushback is that there's always a way it may be tricky to find the way to the national government But because every government in the world is engaged in their budgets with their Structures of national government in education. There's a pathway through that It's not always easy to find the pathway, but it's there if you look hard enough I think what Paul brings up is super interesting the push versus pull I think our hope is that if we do good job as the network of open orgs on the website and advertising the services They will get a lot of People that will come to us that's always easier right if a government comes to us and says hey We want to work with you. That's half the battle right there if we have to persuade a government that is reluctant That's much more difficult And so, you know we as with any adoption of new ideas or new technologies or whatever it might be It's always easier to work with willing partners than unwilling partners And I think that's the next challenge. I you know Igor is saying we're gonna have to talk about what's next for us My hope is that that's part of the conversation. How do we? We become known in a way that people start to come to us and ask for our service Thank you cable like with or knowledge equity network Antonio see the same approach. Yeah Okay, two hands gene of who was first Gino I la I love first. Okay, and then I see somebody at the back is a current. Okay We have got three minutes left, please try to be concise So I think the power of of The network of open orgs is that because many of you are already established and you already have You have chapters like significant chapters on the ground in different like all communities that all So it's almost as well about connecting those communities many like CC and Wikipedia communities and open education work together, but with that as in Arming them to then also approach their governments as well So it becomes kind of like, you know to utilize the what we already have in a way Yeah, that it doesn't just stay at headquarter kind of like HQ space It's more a comment than a question. Thank you. I love Then Gino and Karen and that's gonna be the I think that's last to okay cognizant of time and thank you I think exactly what I led just said because my question was this and I think use it as a statement maybe or a Provocation. Hey Ken. Yeah, so will the network try to create other organizations by common location? So regional yeah intention of opening or Industry even right and then or is it going to be for existing? organizations only even maybe now up front or later you will because for me some places need a catalyst and Maybe there's a champion there but then to put that person into connection with others because You are the organizations that know where things are happening So it might be a good opportunity to sort of metta network people And that's a that's a good suggestion there Do not think and I mean something to that we need to think about as As we are you know as we move forward with the activities of the network I mean the mission So this is something to consider but actually we try to expand and diversify membership in the network as well You know so like for example, we are looking for more organizations that are already active in different countries Like for example in African countries Latin American countries are many of those that are doing meaningful work That can be invited to join the network already. Yeah, we just need some help to to help identify the relevance ones. Yeah Karen thanks it seems to me that from what cable was saying and the rest of you that You know maybe a thing for the network to do is really set priorities about like which governments to target first Because I hear what you're saying cable like we don't want to target reluctant governments And maybe let's wait for them to come to us But are they're not governments that may already have a little bit more propensity like is it Canada like where is it? You know and to start with one model government That seems most likely and that maybe the network could try to identify that particular government That's already a little bit on board and court them in in a back and forth And if you get one government on board, that's gonna serve as a model. So that's just a suggestion Thank You Karen There are probably several examples of those around the world that have been already doing different activities But you know in terms of policy instruments over there these are other types of you know policies that have implemented Yeah, that we could run. Yeah, and I just want to say Karen That's a great idea and one of the things that has happened with the UNESCO OER Recommendation is there is an expectation that the countries that sign it report out on progress and so Just recently there was a report out on progress And so we're now kind of looking at the results of that report out and hope to identify Some of those perhaps first partners that we could engage Yeah, thank you Paul for that comment be ran out of time But I just want to ask our supporting to please put a slide back on Your earliest convenience. Thank you Just wanted to show that the final slide. Yeah, that's it. Thank you very much So again, I'm just sharing the URLs to the website Also, if you have any questions about the network if you'd like to join the network Please email us at info at network of open orbs dot org and thank you very much for your attention


Hey survivors and frivers, in this video I'm going to be sharing some notes which I've learned from my personal experiences. I believe that this video will help to validate what you have experienced. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. If you would like to make a donation, my paypal link is in the video description. Coaching Inquiries please contact me at narksfivercoaching at gmail.com. We have a private Reddit community where survivors and frivers can share their experiences and knowledge. If you are interested in being a part of this community, you can sign up through our Patreon page, the link is in the video description. Check out the Narks Fiver merchandise store where you can purchase your own Narks Fiver t-shirt or mug. We have a variety of designs and it is a great way to support the channel. The link to our Narks Fiver merchandise store is in the video description. A relationship with a narcissist. We do assume that we are dealing with honest, genuine and trustworthy people like ourselves. But narcissists are not honest, genuine or trustworthy. They are emotionally immature like children. They will not accept responsibility or accountability for their faults or mistakes. So they will never learn or grow from them. They remain in this emotionally mature state since they never accepted responsibility or accountability for their faults or mistakes. They manage your interactions through resistance. This is designed to leave you to chase them or how you want them to be. It gives their narcissistic supply a sense of power and control over the situation. If they let go of their resistance towards you, this would then give you the power. If you had the power, you would then realize that this person isn't serving you or improving your life in any way. This is why they hold on to this position of power or control so strongly. They know that they can either hold this position or you are going to want nothing to do with them. And they already know how painful it is going to be to not be wanted or desired by you. The value is based off your desire of them. They are externally validated. Narcists study you to find any weaknesses or vulnerabilities for them to get in. From there they will manage your boundaries as well as your beliefs, values and principles. This is done through influencing your thoughts, through emotional abuse such as subtle comments, back-end compliments as well as manipulation. By influencing your thoughts through these covert tactics, this then leads to a change in your feelings, which then leads to a change in your actions and behaviors. Now they have control over what you are thinking and feeling and how you are acting and behaving. And since they are the ones who influenced all of this, they can already predict how you are going to think, feel, act and behave before you even know. If you act or behave in a way that doesn't benefit them, they will then go back to influencing your thoughts through their covert tactics. It's all about managing how you see yourself, them, other people and the world around you. This is what gives them total control over the situation. If you are paying attention, you will see the mask come off in the beginning of the relationship. Just pay attention to how they talk about other people. Soon they will be talking about you like that. A narcissist can only withhold their hate, anger, envy and jealousy for a certain amount of time. At some point it's going to come out on you. They might test the water by disrespecting someone else to you and then they will disrespect you directly. From this point it just gets worse and worse until the mask is all the way off. Once the narcissist has used you up for all of the life and energy they can get out of you, the mask will be all the way off and at that point they have nothing to lose.  They will do things that even they thought they would never be doing but over time it will become normalised and the longer you stay with them the more this will escalate. If you are tolerating psychological, emotional and even physical abuse and you are still keeping it together the narcissist won't be satisfied. This is when they can become very dangerous. They need narcissistic supply to survive just like we need air to breathe. If their current tactics aren't working it will escalate as much as it needs to until they get what they want.  They would tell you that there is no way they would ever be doing something like that and that's how you know that whatever they are doing to you now will have to escalate in time to come. As time goes on they have to become more and more abusive to get the same high. Just like a cocaine addict requires more and more cocaine to chase the high they had the first time. That's why it is inevitable that the abuse will escalate and gradually become normalised until previously unimaginable acts could take place. I don't believe in narcissists even have the ability to have a genuine conversation. They are always putting on an act or creating an illusion with their words. They use conversations to obtain narcissistic supply by emotionally abusing or manipulating you. They cannot put themselves in your shoes. They cannot see things the way that you do. They do not want a resolution or a mutual understanding. They want dominance. They want to control you. A resolution or mutual understanding makes it very difficult for them to dominate or control you. A genuine conversation would require truth and as we know narcissists hate the truth because the truth would expose them. The truth would expose the very person that they are trying to hide. So you cannot have a genuine conversation with a narcissist. It's just not possible. A genuine conversation would require truth and don't expect the truth from the narcissist. Don't expect any vulnerability. Just know that because of their inability to be real or authentic with you, it makes it impossible for them to experience any real genuine positive emotions. It makes it impossible for them to live in truth, acceptance or any form of love. Instead they remain stuck in an endless cycle of trying to gather whatever dominance will control they can gain over you and the situation. It has everything to do with them and almost nothing to do with you. Once you start confronting them and making it difficult for them to obtain supply, you become a lost cause. They look for you in someone else. When they find a new source they try to make them like you. But a fresh version that doesn't know what they're really about. It is impersonal. They do this to everyone just in different forms. They may not abuse or manipulate the next person in the same way that they did with you. But that does not mean that they are not abusing or manipulating them. This is something they do all day every day. It's just different people have different vulnerabilities, weaknesses or insecurities. So they will tailor make their abuse and manipulation to that specific person. They have to punish you for triggering them to reflect on their self-hatred and envy of you. That's what motivates or drives them to do what they do. They could not do it without motivation and their motivation comes from their self-hatred and envy of you which your presence has triggered them to reflect on. They want you to feel that you are not lovable. The reason for this is because they were told that they are not lovable as a child or they were neglected. Instead of self-reflecting on their traumatic experiences, they chose to project these emotions onto you. This is why they will do everything they can to make their targets feel that they are not lovable. It's projection. Just as they try to make you feel worthless and insignificant. Projection again. They are so desperately and obsessively trying to provoke these emotions within you because it relieves their pain and misery. Hurt and you appears to provide them with some relief in some sick and twisted way. It makes them feel powerful. So this is why they will so desperately and obsessively go out of their way to do this to you. But just remember however they are trying to make you feel that's how they feel. They have learned this behavior as a child. They could not be overtly angry to their parents so they learned these covert tactics which are under the radar since then they have perfected this craft to do with adults. They never learned how to be open or honest and genuine or how to resolve an argument or disagreement. Instead they use covert passive aggressive tactics as a way of expressing their intense negative emotions. These tactics are either going to be a result of their narcissistic rage or they're going to be used to strategically control you. And this is why they are always trying to make you think that something is wrong with you or you are going crazy. If they can get you to believe that something is wrong with you they can control you. They can influence you to seek validation from them rather than validating yourself. This creates a trauma bond. They want you to believe that you are not good enough for whatever reason. This keeps you looking at yourself rather than seeing everything that is not right with them. It gives them the upper hand and gives them further control over you. Now you are doubting yourself. You have developed low self-esteem. Now they can tell you whatever they want and you will believe it. You will even modify your thoughts feelings actions or behaviors to suit however they have defined you. This is how they control your mind and when you act on the dysfunctional thoughts and feelings which they have planted into your mind you may have actions or behaviors that are not considered to be socially acceptable. Now the narcissist can point the finger at you and call you crazy. It makes it more believable to the fly monkeys and how they can create a smear campaign. Do not entertain anything from these individuals. Everything they do revolves around control and dominance. Pay attention to their behavior. It reveals a lot about their mental state, their emotional maturity level and their level of responsibility and accountability. If their behavior reveals that they are emotionally immature and are not willing to accept responsibility or accountability for anything that they do, you shouldn't even desire to interact with people like that.  At the beginning of the relationship they appeal to your own ideals and murder you but that was just to cover the true distasteful and undesirable person they are underneath. Remember how they told you they love you? They want to marry and have children with you? If that was true how could they suddenly disappear as though you never made anything to them and this doesn't suddenly change when they meet someone else. Although they will try to make it seem that way. Nothing ever changes. The cycle only repeats itself.  Sometimes we overlook it due to the trauma bond and how they develop this addiction to them. It's not that there is something wrong with you.  They do not care about your psychological or emotional health they want to destroy that. They see you as a free-spirited, loving, caring or innocent person and nothing burns that heart more. It makes someone to abuse and manipulate you forever and withhold whatever you desire want or need away from you because they have never experienced true satisfaction or fulfillment. They could never achieve or obtain to the level that they desired. They don't forget this stuff. Even if years or decades have gone by, they will still try to hoover you or track you down.  They will want to destroy it all.  It will be the Smear campaign or gangstalking all over again. Don't think that because you have a family and you have children that they are suddenly going to treat with some respect and leave you to look after your family.  They will never be loved and they are extremely envious and jealous people. This is why many survivors of narcissistic abuse will move to a different country. These narcissists don't just leave you for dead. They hoover or stalk you to make sure you're not going to get back up to make sure you're not going to move on with your life and start a family with someone else because that's what all of this comes down to. Everything they do is designed to prevent you from living a life that they know they will never live. All of the psychological emotional or physical abuse is designed to leave you so damaged that you will never be good enough for anyone else after they are gone. This is what hurts them the most. The thought of you moving on with someone else. The thought of you finding love and having children with someone who loves you because they know that they will never have that and that's what makes them so mad, so bitter and jealous. Their inner dialogue or inner critic tells them that they are not meant to be loved. Nothing will ever change with them. You may have cognitive dissonance where you were told that you are the problem or something was wrong with you. You try to make a positive change in yourself, in your decisions and your behaviors. What effect did that have on the relationship? Did it make a difference? When something is always your fault, no matter how much you positively change yourself, your decisions are behaviors. That's when you should realize that you are not the problem in that situation. When you feel like you can't do anything right and there is nothing you can do to please them. That's when you should know it isn't you. Because we all naturally have the capabilities to please a normal, healthy individual. When the positive changes in yourself, decisions and behaviors have no effect on your environment, there is no way that you are the problem. That wouldn't make any sense. How can you develop a higher level of self awareness and make positive changes in yourself and then still be the problem? It suggests that you are never the issue in that relationship. Narses are too weak and fragile to accept their faults and mistakes. They want to shift the blame on to you. They want you to think that everything is your fault.  They know that you're empathic. If they didn't think that about you, they wouldn't even try to shift the blame on to you or make you think something is your fault. Because if you're not a caring or empathic person, you wouldn't even consider taking responsibility. Narses target people who care and then take advantage of them. They do not target people who don't care. If you don't care, there is no way for them to emotionally abuse you. There is no way for them to manipulate you. They target good people and then try to make them think that they are bad. Since this good person is going to be loving and caring, they are naturally going to desire to fix what is happening. This is where the Narses sits back and gets this good person to do everything for them, chasing their approval and admiration, while making this good person believe that something is wrong with them or they are not good enough. When they were good enough all along, the Narses game is to make you think that you are not good enough for them. When really they know that they know that they are not good enough for you. Thank you for watching. I hope this video resonated with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. If you would like to donate, my PayPal link is in the video description. Coaching Inquiries, you can email me at nars5coaching at gmail.com. More videos coming soon.


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Hello everyone, my name is Neha and I'm a member of Chrome's partnership team. I work with organizations to help build best-in-class web experiences. Today, we're going to talk about how innovative and engaging web experiences can enable companies to grow. As you know, the web has become a powerful platform for delivering content. On average, internet users worldwide spend 6.7 hours online every day. And a significant portion of that time spent on the web. Reading news, checking email, listening to music, connecting with friends. This is great news for developers because it means you have the opportunity to get rich capabilities to users wherever they are. Google is here to provide the tools and APIs you need to build on the web. When combined with the features and designs you want to build, the possibilities are endless. In this session, we'll talk about six best-in-class online experiences and how they drive business growth. These services leverage various technologies that Google is heavily investing in, including WebAssembly, WebGPU, and ProjectFugu APIs. WebAssembly is an open standard whose main objective is to offer a closely native performance on the web while maintaining compatibility with the current ecosystem and standards. WebGPU is an API that exposes the capabilities of GPU hardware for the web. ProjectFugu is a cross-company effort around enabling the most amazing apps on the web and includes hardware APIs, typography APIs, and others. These capabilities work together to help create experiences that help businesses grow. Some of the benefits that businesses have been able to realize with superior web experiences include faster time to market, user growth, and increased user engagement. First up, we'll talk about Cocos. Cocos Engine is used by more than 1.6 million developers in the fields of 2D and 3D games and other online experiences. When developers use Game Engine, they want to make sure they can develop their games once and deploy it to as many platforms as possible. How do we make sure they can do that for the web? Cocos Creator leverages WebAssembly to enable game developers to build online games. With the inclusion of WebGPU, they are improving cross-platform rendering with advanced graphics features. Creators like Ubisoft and Discord have relied on Cocos Creator to quickly and efficiently launch games. Cocos tools have led to over 100,000 games being created on the web, many of which combine audio and video to deliver exciting experiences for users. For example, Discord integrated PubParty into their voice channel to give users a new way to engage with each other while talking on Discord. These new gaming experiences lead to users spending more time engaging with brands and platforms. These experiences also benefit businesses in the following ways. Firstly, new users via a new acquisition channel, the web. For some games, acquiring users on the web is cheaper than acquiring users via native mobile app games. Additionally, creators see faster time to market. Lastly, developers are able to deliver new online gaming experiences that combine gaming with video, chat, audio, and multiplayer experiences. In fact, experiences created on Cocos reach more than 1.6 billion end users. That's over 30% of global internet users. As developers, you can also reach 1.6 billion users by building online experiences with tools like WebAssembly and WebGPU. Next, let's talk about another brand that reached new users via web capabilities. The web allows you to play hard, but also work hard. Notion is a productivity tool that can be easily accessed on most web browsers. In addition to note-taking, individual users and teams can share documents, take notes, manage projects, and organize knowledge. Most recently, Notion has introduced AI that allows teams to work fast, write better, and think bigger. As a user, this is important since we want our notes and tasks to be with us wherever we are. A typical user can start their day by checking their to-do list or team assignments on their phone, then take meeting notes on their laptop, use their tablet in the evening to follow a recipe that had earlier been saved from their phone, and update their tasks and reminders throughout the day to stay on schedule. Notion leverages Project Fugu APIs like Async Clipboard and Persistent Storage to deliver engaging and easy-to-use web experiences. Async Clipboard allows access to the Clipboard to copy and paste more than text, which wasn't possible on the web before. Persistent Storage ensures that data survives when the system runs out of disk space. Making Notion accessible via a browser reduces the barrier to entry for new individual users and teams driving user growth. Over 40% of users access Notion via the web. It also leads to increased cross-device engagement by individual users and teams on Notion. Notion's strong web presence has enabled them to grow to over 20 million users, up from 1 million users in 2019. Notion's customer volume grew 240% from November 1, 2020 to October 31, 2021. Think of the growth that YouTube can achieve with a great web experience. Similarly, Tencent Docs is an online documentation tool that allows for simultaneous coordination and collaboration. It is a great example of how users can interact on the web together and have their changes or actions immediately propagate to other users. It's also important when you share or copy-paste an application for that to be instant as well. This allows us as users and creators to stay in flow. Tencent uses the Async Clipboard API to make pasting near instantaneous, taking less than 100 milliseconds. Improving the user experience by giving them speed and consistency leads to more users using Tencent Docs and higher engagement and session duration. Tencent's success with Tencent Docs has also led them to creating a new enterprise offering for Tencent Docs that allows them to further expand their user base and revenue growth from this solution. Tencent's easy-to-use, instantaneous web experience has enabled it to reach over 200 million monthly active users, with over 3 billion created documents. And it's not just instantaneous copy-pasting that can create an engaging user experience that leads to growth. Think of the hundreds of other instant actions you can bring to your websites to give users the functionality they desire. You can't talk about collaboration without talking about Figma, a website that has taken the way we share and design visually to another level. Figma is used for interface design, logo creation, application flows, t-shirt mocks, and more. All you need is a link. Figma is a web-first solution that leverages WebAssembly to build their online offering. The biggest benefit that Figma sees from using WebAssembly is faster load time. Figma's load time improved by more than three times after they switched to WebAssembly, regardless of document size. This is a huge improvement for Figma's users, who often create very large design documents and frequently switch between them. Figma's web-first philosophy brings additional benefits for users. Users can't sign in and access their files from anywhere and without installing anything, and can collaborate in real-time, including leaving comments or talking something through via audio or cursor chat. All of these benefits bring new users to Figma and increase engagement with Figma. Figma's strong web presence has enabled them to grow to over 4 million users who open over 125,000 files every week. Figma's customer volume grew 159% from November 1, 2020 to October 31, 2021. You too can deliver faster load times for files and documents to give your users a seamless user experience that drives business growth. It's not just workplaces that benefit from innovative web experiences. Schools can also take advantage of the web to accelerate learning in classrooms and make learning fun. LEGO Education builds playful learning experiences that make learning fun and impactful by connecting LEGO bricks to the web to make robots that can move, play music, dance, and much more. There are two ways that LEGO does this. First, through their Spike app, which is easily accessed on a web browser. Teachers use the Spike app to access lesson plans, tutorials, and building instructions. By accessing the Spike app on the web, teachers also get easy access to updates and new content. Secondly, LEGO uses ProjectFugu APIs like Web Bluetooth and Web Serial to allow students to write code and connect that code to LEGO builds. The Spike app also makes use of local file access APIs to allow students to save their work to files on their computer, making it easy to share projects with each other and with their teacher. Examples of projects that allow students to convert LEGO bricks into robots include displaying or by the forecast using real-time local data, locking or unlocking the door of a safe deposit box, and counting setups. Easy access via the web allows students to quickly jump into deep engagement and allows LEGO to meet students where they are. They spend less time setting up and more time learning in the classroom. Students report higher engagement and more confidence in pursuing STEAM when learning with LEGO. Snapchat is a visual messaging app that enhances your relationship with friends, family, and the world. Snapchat started out as a mobile app that took advantage of the speed and ubiquity of communicating with your phone. Snapchat introduced Snapchat for web last year, so Snapchatters can stay in touch no matter which device they are using, whether relaxing at home or sharing the screen to work on a project together. Leveraging tools like WebAssembly enabled Snapchat to achieve faster time to market. Snapchat for web also brought new users to Snapchat and increased session times for users. A browser-based experience also meant that Snapchatters could stay connected from any device. AR is a powerful tool to deliver a wide range of outcomes for partners, developers, and consumers alike by creating deeper connections, greater opportunity for engagement, new acquisition, retention, and more. Snapchat's most recent efforts include leveraging WebAssembly to create their augmented reality Web SDK. CameraKit for web in beta. CameraKit allows developers to leverage Snapchat's AR platform and technology to deliver custom augmented reality lenses to their own audiences on their own websites and on apps. The power of AR spans across a diverse set of use cases, ranging anywhere from teaching consumers sign language to virtually trying on products to helping colleagues add a dose of fun to their calls. And all of the AR lenses that can be distributed via CameraKit SDK are built in Lens Studio, a free, all-in-one design, development, and testing editor built from the ground up for AR. With these new advancements in CameraKit's cross-platform support, AR is now more accessible than ever, which increases the potential for online engagement, user acquisition, retention, and new revenue streams. Thanks for watching and don't forget to check out WebGPU, WebAssembly, and ProjectFugu sessions to learn more about how these brands deployed their web experiences using widely available tools from Google Chrome.


This is the SF Productions podcast network The golden gut from the pop culture bunker. I'm Indy and I'm Mark You can check out our audio podcast how I got my wife to read comics on iTunes or on our website SF podcast network comm So as summer runs out we can look forward To new fall TV shows With all the choices and options today fall premieres are becoming an antiquated concept really yes Just like the reason they were created which was to sell new cars because back then that's when all the new cars came out Which doesn't happen. Yeah, but back in the 1970s. You only really had three choices ABC NBC CBS It's a lot easier. Absolutely and one man led all three networks Not at the same time. No saving to and almost bankrupting the other Fred Silverman He was known as the man with a golden gut for his unerring ability to green light hit shows. Yes He started in TV at Chicago's WGN in 1959 after working in the mail room at ABC He didn't have mail rooms anymore. No, I'm surely know his master's thesis from the Ohio State University on ABC programming over ten years got him noticed at CBS where he took over daytime programming Now TV at the time was handled in day parts Morning afternoon evening late night. This was way before syndication really. Oh, absolutely So keep in mind that at least when he was with the networks He didn't actually produce shows But he greenlit them and actually helped to create them. So he had an enormous impact on what made it to pilots in 1969 again at this point he is Daytime programming which includes Saturday morning. Okay, so he greenlit scooby-doo for Saturday morning And in fact the Fred Jones character in scooby-doo is named for Fred Silverman He was given control of all programming at CBS in 1970 and then led the infamous rural purge So goodbye The idea was that CBS was number one in the ratings But demographers came in and sold them and advertisers on the idea that you needed the right people Not just the most people watching your shows So CBS viewers were older and more rural So they weren't good for the advertisers. They didn't have as much money to spend and they were older So they were less pliable in terms of changing their ways, right So Silverman canceled in quick order Green Acres Mayberry RFD, He-Ha, Beverly Hillbillies, Lassie, Family Affair, My Three Sons, and Hogan's Heroes Not sure how that got in there. Well Family Affair doesn't really fit with the whole rural thing either No, no So this opened up so many spots all at once that they were forced at CBS to take chances on some new concepts for shows Those shows were all in the family MASH and the Mary Tyler Moore show all of which revitalized the network And were arguably much better shows and more socially relevant shows than what was canceled Right, but they were a little more risky than what they were doing at the time Silverman was a big fan of spin-offs Then he was the one who really popularized the spin-off idea So at CBS we got Maud, the Jeffersons, and Good Times all of which came from all in the family And Rhoda and Phyllis both came from Mary Tyler Moore show Actually the Bob Newhart show really almost fits in as a spin-off because it was the same writing team as the Mary Tyler Moore show right Silverman also brought back game shows to daytime after they had disappeared in the late 60s after the scandal Well, this is this long after the scandal, but they just kind of faded away in the late 60s So he resurrected a show called The Price is Right which had done fairly well for years Bill Cullen with Bill Cullen And of course that's The Price is Right that's still running over 40 years later. Yeah Silverman also ended the practice of recycling old videotapes Now so Much of what we know as 60s television is only around because of the filmed shows The ones that were videotaped were mostly lost because it was cheaper to record over those shows to take the same tape And just record over it. Did he ever say why he ended that did he say he wanted to keep the old shows? He wanted to he thought there would be a use for him. He was he he somehow saw in the future There would be a need. Yeah, but nobody else saw I was like, ah, forget that, you know, then we got to store them Boy, yeah, so in 1975 he was lured over to abc with a big paycheck ABC had been the number three network since its inception in the 50s Partly due to our moratorium on new stations in the early 50s when they were trying to figure out the How color tv was going to work the fcc said no more Uh, uh new licenses for stations and since nbc and cbs already were in there And they had wrapped up those stations then they were exclusive for like two years and that was a That was a a crucial two years abc was always behind so silverman took this show that was failing called happy days And turned it into a juggernaut that launched multiple spin-offs Again more spin-offs laverne and surly morgan mendy, uh, joni loves cha chi which wasn't quite so popular right, but Ironically happy days was losing to another spin-off Good times over on cbs that silverman had brought put into place Silverman also began what was called jiggle tv Imagine that yeah women in skimpy outfits So that's where we we saw charlie's angels and love boat and fantasy island and bionic woman And the battle of the network stars So You got to look at this point in the history of television at the time You weren't even allowed to mention other network's names If you were a star on say an abc show and you went on johnny karson johnny would say the show was on another network That's a lot easier than now if you say it's on another network. You would never be able to find it. Exactly so the idea of battle the network stars is that a group of tv stars who are in In teams representing their networks So they actually had like logo cbs or abc or nbc logos in Events such as tug of war swimming obstacle courses With howard cosel doing the play by play There was no entertainment tonight. There was no internet. Obviously. There was no tmz So this was the first time we had seen these stars warts at all We either saw them in character on their show or on a talk show It was all very much pre-programmed. That's what they were gonna say. Yeah I really doubt agents would ever allow this today. That's why you'll never see battle the network stars again Oh, and apparently there was a no bra rule for the gals Well, because otherwise it wouldn't have been uh, I don't know. Yeah In abc daytime silverman put a new producer gloria monti in charge of of a failing Uh soap opera named general hospital and gave her 13 weeks to fix it. It's still on the air He was good at picking people. Yeah, he also borrowed A local morning tv show concept and created good morning america Under his reign abc went to number one for the first time ever And then in 1978 silverman attempted to trifecta and he moved nbc. I'm gonna save them now At this point it's unclear what happened. Maybe he lost his way Maybe the other execs were afraid of questioning him But things got weird at this point Silverman introduced some of the worst tv shows of all time in nbc Hello larry, which was mclean sievensons triumphant returned to television after mash Where he's the he is actually a spin-off of another show called different strokes And uh, he's like a dj Like a talk radio host with kids and wackiness ensues. Didn't really work out. No Pink lady and jeff now. I remember that I you know I think I watched that a few times. Yeah, so this comedian jeff altman and these two this Japanese pop duo named pink lady who spoke no english Yes, that's that's the operative point here did a variety show The girls said all their their speeches phonetically had no idea what they were saying It's very hard to do comedy when you have no idea what you're saying And then there was Super train So this was their love boat knockoff now. I really think super train could work So a nuclear powered train that went across the country in incredible speed And it included of course like a hot tub car and a disco car and And it was very much love boat absolutely because there were like several story lines and there was Here's your conductor and here's your porter and here's your you know Yeah, but without the scenery without the scenery. Yeah So to be fair He also introduced introduced at NBC different strokes as I mentioned facts of life Which is a spin-off of different strokes hill street blues And he got a young david letterman on the air in a morning show and then got him to agree to a holding deal After the morning show until they could figure out what to do with them Which was of course for him to do late night with david letterman right which You know which david just finished his run Decades and decades later He also committed to shows that became cheers and st. Elsewhere He also promoted brandon tartikov soon to succeed him And tartikov later created the must-see tv juggernaut of nbc in the 80s and 90s Silverman left the network in 1981 and started his own production company. Okay So now he's no longer picking out the show. He's creating them creating them. So Some of the shows he created as an independent producer matlock Jake and the fat man diagnosis murder father dialing mysteries and the perry mason tv movies He also created that terrible thick of the night Alan thick Late night talk show fiasco. Yeah, but regardless of that His impact on tv cannot be overstated TV is if you watched 70s television, you watched something that that's fred silverman had his handle And all the people who are creating tv today Watched that fred silverman era era and there's a lot of influence on tv today from that So no question. Um while you're not watching tv, though You can check out our audio podcast how I got my wave tree comics on itunes or on our website sfpodcastnetwork.com From the pop culture bunker. I'm indy and i'm mark. Thanks for watching and i'm off to watch battle the network stars


Hi, so we're here with the Jetcom Technologies. Hello, so who are you? Hey, I'm Xianbo Li from Jetcom. And Jetcom is a startup company from Hong Kong University of Samsung Technology. And we provide a technology which is called LiFi. So this is where we embed information into LED light or LED display. So there's information in the light? Yes. Is data over light? Yes, so here I can show you the demo. So if we use a normal camera to scan the line, you can see a lot of flickering. Actually, this flickering can be used to carry useful information. Therefore, we develop an APP here. What's the data bandwidth? The data rate for this application is tens of kilobits per second. Tens of kilobits per second? Yes, but it can be as high as tens of megabits per second. Only one way, right? Yes, this is only one way. So here I will show you our APP. So this is the interface of the APP. If we point to the light, then we can get the information from the light. So all these lights everywhere could be sending information all the time? Yes, exactly. So if we equip those LED lights with our driver, then all the LED can be sent to be information. And just a camera phone? From any camera phone? Yes, of course. And for this one, the APP we provided here is for Apple Store. And we also have different versions for Angel. And here you are showing the micro LED? Yes. And this is the micro LED where the information is embedded in the video. And then the information is transmitted to the light received by the receiver. And finally it's sold on the LCD here. Yes, so you can see that this information is transmitted from the light, transmitted from the micro display. And when the display content is changed, then the received information will also change. So there are some other companies doing li-fi, right? Yes. So what is the status in the market? How many people use the li-fi technology so far? So li-fi, the application of li-fi is at the very early stage. So by now we haven't seen any large scale application. But I believe that there is a bright future for this technology. And what's different about your li-fi compared to other technologies? So for our li-fi we have a very stable system including both hardware and software. And in particular we also have technology to embed information into a display. So this is the first demonstration. Micro LED solution? Yes. And can this be to LCD display too and all that? Yes, of course. So this technology can be applied to a large display with LED as the backlighting or even LED signage. But if there is one light so far away and it's doing, is it possible to get a data from a light far away on a small camera? Yes, it's possible, but it depends on the optical power of the light. So it needs to be very bright? Yes. And the camera needs to be high quality? No, we are targeting at a normal camera only.