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In a world where most research never sees the
light of day, MAYA's research has a healthy tan thanks to Josh.
He spots market needs and untapped potential, then he matches the products
of MAYA's research, such as the Information Commons, with businesses, government agencies, and non-profit
organizations that have the most to gain by putting them to use.
Featured by Time Magazine as one of its "Heroes for the Planet" and named
as one of Pittsburgh's "Top 40 Under 40," Josh joined MAYA after many
successes with ventures that bridge environmental advocacy, online activism,
and commerce.
What he began as a student project in 1991 is now
EnviroLink, the
Internet's largest and most complete environmental information resource for
activists, organizations, businesses, and government. Josh served as
Executive Director of Envirolink after earning a degree in environmental
ethics and policy at Carnegie Mellon University.
Josh then founded Greenmarketplace.com,
an acclaimed e-commerce site for socially and environmentally responsible products,
services, and information that blended content, community, and commerce. He sold
GreenMarketplace to Gaiam in 2002.
Josh has also helped Aramark Corporation bring more green products into its
retail operations, conducted business-strategy consulting, and partnered
with businesses developing eco-friendly products. He has appeared as a
commentator on Fox News, and developed and implemented communication
strategy plans for CBS News, CERES, the US National Park Service, The
University of Arizona, Defenders of Wildlife, Environmental Defense, The
Heinz School at Carnegie Mellon University, and the Carnegie Science Center.
Josh is a board member of The Institute for Global Communications, Allegheny
Sierra Club, EnviroLink, Temple Sinai, and The Fiber Council of the Organic
Trade Association. He is also an active member of the Social Venture Network.
When he's not neck deep in business, he's knee deep in forest undergrowth
with his wife Kathleen, daughter Olivia, and their dogs.
P2P Expert
Although P2P technology has sometimes been villainized because of "bootleg" downloading activity on the Internet,
more and more public-sector organizations use it to provide access to community services and information in an
efficient, cost-effective, and scalable way. MAYA invites media and industry representatives looking for P2P experts to contact
Josh (412-488-2900) as a nationally recognized commentator on the implications of the Communications Decency Act of 1996
and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. In light of the MGM v. Grokster U.S. Supreme Court hearings,
Josh can discuss P2P issues and three success stories that demonstrate the technology's effectiveness and benefit
at the city, county, and national levels. Download this press release [PDF] for additional information.
Media coverage
Missing data at the center of the storm (Government Computer News, January 2006)
Information Commons; a bright star for the future of information (ZDNet, September 2005)
Public Information Belongs in Public Hands (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 2004)
Pittsburgh's 40 Under 40 (Pittsburgh Magazine, November 2002)
Natural Order: Green Giant (Entrepreneur Magazine, November 2001)
Changemakers (Pittsburgh Business Times, December 2001)
AlterNet New Media Heros (AlterNet, February 2001)
Saving the World, One Click at a Time (Fortune Magazine, April 2000)
Heroes for the Planet, The Web's Wild World (Time Magazine, April 1999)
Papers
The National Infrastructure for Community Statistics: Liberating Public GIS and Statistical Data [PDF: 1.9MB]
Abstract: A collaboration between the Brookings Institution, 3 Rivers Connect,
and MAYA Design, this paper describes some of the ways in which the
Information Commons is being used as a public information space,
combining geographic and socioeconomic data and building interfaces
that practioners in a range of fields can use to access and understand
information in ways the were previously impossible. Published in the
Proceedings of the 4th Annual Public Participation GIS (PPGIS)
Conference, Cleveland, Ohio. August, 2005.
Internet Global Environmental Information Sharing [HTML]
Published in Information Systems and the Environment. National Academy of Engineering, 2002.
Activism and the Internet: A Beginner's Guide
Published in The Future is Ours. Henry Holt and Company, 1996
Presentations
InfoCommons: An Open Platform for Public Data
[PPT: 4MB]
[PDF (of PowerPoint slides): 1.6MB]
[PDF (of PowerPoint notes): 1.4MB]
Josh used this presentation to introduce the Information Commons at the 2005 O'Reilly Where 2.0 conference in San Francisco.
Applying IA to Community: A Case Study on the Next-Generation Information Commons [PDF: 12MB]
Conference participants expressed an exceptional amount of interest in how MAYA's architectural
approach addresses problems such as data replication, universal
identity, data fusion, and so on. Josh introduced MAYA's idea of an Information Commons that uses the
idea of information liquidity to liberate data.
MAYA asserts that the next-generation information commons will provide:
- an arbitrarily scalable information space
- built-in data redundancy through replication
- universal identity of information objects
- the ability to organize data in multiple, flexible ways
Published in the Proceedings for the American Society for Information Science and Technology's Information Architecture Summit 2005, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
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