Questions:
- What can technology do to assist in poverty alleviation?
- What specific problems need addressing?
- How can internet/mobile technology be used by those in developing nations?
- What kind of activism/poverty alleviation/empowerment/etc. tools can be created with this technology?
- How can existing systems, (e.g. facebook, cell phones, blogs) be extended to be useful to those in the developing world?
- How can storytelling be used for empowerment?
- What can technology do to make storytelling and empowerment more effective?
Motivations:
- To make practical solutions for people in poverty.
- To create effective uses of available technology.
- To discover and develop new technologies.
- To appropriate technological means to deliver a message.
- To find balance between my scientific and artistic inclinations - to see where they are the same.
Domains:
social development - economic development - social networking - storytelling - poverty alleviation - empowerment - internet technology - mobile technology - subversion - sustainability
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