The Role of Technologists in Addressing Poverty and Other Issues

December 7, 2009 in technology with 0 Comments

I recently guest posted on ChurchCrunch.com on the topic of how we can use technology to address certain issues such as poverty.

Here’s an excerpt:

I recently had the opportunity to hear Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia speak at the the launch of a new wiki site for the Tampa Bay Coalition for the Homeless.

According to Wikipedia a wiki is a “website that allows the easy creation and editing of a large number interlinked web pages via a web browser…”

So just what Wikipedia is to the encyclopedia world, this wiki is a centralized, user-driven resource for helping to address the issues of homelessness in Tampa Bay.

Through the creation of Wikia, anyone can go and start their own similar wiki for anything.

I believe this is the highest and primary role of any technologist: to make it easy and simple for people to participate and contribute towards a vision.

Click here for the full post.

[image by Nghi La]