about - Hassan Masum

Hassan Masum

"Are we being good ancestors?"

-Jonas Salk

Ideas

The Reputation Society: Experts discuss the benefits and risks of reputation systems (MIT Press, 2012).

Worldchanging: A Users Guide for the 21st Century: Innovative solutions for building a sustainable, livable, prosperous future.

Given Enough Minds...: What might an open infrastructure for solving the world's toughest problems look like?
Manifesto for the Reputation Society: An effective reputation ecology can promote accountability, quality, and the fulfillment of our nobler aspirations.
Five Promising Methods for Health Foresight: Designing health futures.
Health Innovation in sub-Saharan Africa: African health entrepreneurs.
A Tough Transition: Biotech in the developing world.
A Visual Dashboard for Moving Health Technologies From "Lab to Village": What stops new technology implementation?
TOOL: The Open Opinion Layer: An "Internet of Opinions".
The Turing Ratio: Going beyond the Turing Test, to measure superhuman abilities.

More publications...

Projects

Policy and technology strategist and Affiliate Researcher at the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation at the University of Waterloo.

Consultant with Results for Development, and problem-solver with other organizations. Strengths: research acumen, clear communications, creativity.

Specialties: Strategic analysis, solution design, health innovation, reputation systems, technology foresight, creative collaboration, qualitative research, lucid writing, clear thinking.

Past: Work with the Sandra Rotman Center, Government of Canada, National Research Council, Industry Canada, and others. Innovative solutions to the planet’s problems with Worldchanging and Worldchanging Canada. Collaborative technologies implementation with the Communications Research Center and National Research Council. PhD Carleton University, postdoctoral work at NRC and the University of Fribourg. Other: network engineering, R&D policy, reverse engineering, genetic algorithm design, teaching...

Interests: algorithmic money, Canada, Collaboration Cookbook, collective intelligence, complex adaptive systems, constructive news, ecological economics, ethical finance, foresight, global health, great books, high performance teams, peer production, social investment, sustainable prosperity, visions of a better tomorrow...

Inspiration

Academic Earth
Astro Pic of the Day
Nick Bostrom
Jamais Cascio
Centauri Dreams
Changemakers
CoolTools
Creative Commons
DOAJ
Earth Charter
Edge
Energy Bulletin
Gapminder
Global Voices
Paul Graham
Tyler Hamilton
Ignite Talks

Improv Encyclopedia
Internet Archive
Tony Judge
Khan Academy
LibraryThing
Long Now Seminars
MagnaTune
The Mark
Michael Nielsen

NASA Images
Natl Lib Medicine
NextBillion
Steve Pavlina

Clifford Pickover
Plan B 4.0
PLoS
Project Gutenberg
SciDev
Software Carpentry
Solutions Journal

Spaceflight Basics
StatSoft Textbook
TEDTalks
John Walker
Wolfram Alpha
WorldLaw
WorldMapper
Ethan Zuckerman