A Few Of The Cool Things I Have Done In The Past

BBC Digital Revolution

The Virtual Revolution was a unique Web 2.0 experiment in crowd-sourcing, carried out by the BBC, with the original title of Digital Revolution.

The purpose of the project was to document the history of the World Wide Web, and the things that came before it, and to involve  the general public in the whole process of planning and writing the script.

TaiwanChallenges was credited as the #3 contributor, out of thousands worldwide, to this process. We talked with the producers about who to interview, what topics and themes to explore, what messages were important, what to leave out. It was a fascinating and rewarding experience, especially once filming started and we could see the material before it was edited to make the program. We would wake up to find eg an interview with Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the WWW, talking about the topics we suggested weeks before, and then talk with the team about what to to focus on and what to leave out.

Obviously, we're not TV professionals, but Virtual Revolution touched our two core passions: how to educate people and how to use technology in new and exciting ways. Virtual Revolution was a unique experiment, probably the first in the world to enable ordinary people to work with a major organisation in this way. We learned a lot from it, had a great deal of fun, and the results were pretty cool as well. Here's the first part of the first show, starting in Africa and questioning what the web does to us:

Virtual Revolution website http://www.bbc.co.uk/virtualrevolution