The trauma of being born in the back of an ambulance between Waverly and his hometown of Patea on the way to W[h]anganui hospital may have been the first indication that Joel wasn't content to sit around. A Social-Psychologist and Network Engineer (ICT), Joel specialises in reputation economies and representations of knowledge and how the processes behind these create human societies and cultures.Looking at social groups sharing similar ideals of trust and reciprocity as part of his Postgraduate research Joel stumbled upon the Travel and Hospitality Network Couchsurfing.org.
In 2006 CS had just 200,000 members, now an order of magnitude bigger at 2,000,000 members it is one of the largest Social Networking sites on the Internet, and easily the largest hospitality and travel site on the Internet.
One of 4 Ambassadors for Wellington Joel has travelled extensively on nothing more than the hospitality of strangers and regularly hosts. He can also be found on twitter/identi.ca : aenertia
Video:
Here's the video of Joel's talk. To view in HD, please go to YouTube.
Many thanks to Veli from @hoccusfoccus for recording and uploading the video.
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[badly]Auto converted Slide pack on slide share here:
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