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Hacking poverty through mobile tech and social entrepreneurship

  • July 22, 2016
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Dermot7
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by Thane Kreiner
 
 In Silicon Valley the term “hacker” has evolved to connote high praise for someone particularly creative, ingenious and adept at finding clever new ways to accomplish a difficult task. It’s with that framework in mind, rather than some of the other meanings that “hack” usually represents, that I suggested during my recent TEDx talk that Pope Francis and the UN are hackers of poverty.
 
 https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/22/hacking-poverty-through-mobile-tech-and-social-entrepreneurship/

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Jasper_The_Rasper
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by Thane Kreiner
 
 In Silicon Valley the term “hacker” has evolved to connote high praise for someone particularly creative, ingenious and adept at finding clever new ways to accomplish a difficult task. It’s with that framework in mind, rather than some of the other meanings that “hack” usually represents, that I suggested during my recent TEDx talk that Pope Francis and the UN are hackers of poverty.
 
 https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/22/hacking-poverty-through-mobile-tech-and-social-entrepreneurship/
At the same time it seems to me like hackers as we know them will become glamorised and be looked up to.

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  • July 22, 2016
It is a little more comlex than that in my opinion, Jasper, as one has the 'hacker'...the miscreant, and one also has the 'ethical hacker' or the good guy (or gal) who are trying to beat the hackers at their own game. And going forward who knows how many variations on a theme might arise?