by Erik Kain on November 14, 2011
Hamadoun Touré, the Secretary General of the ITU, spoke at Techonomy Sunday and defended his push to have the United Nations declare access to broadband a human right. Unfortunately, rights language tends to muddy an otherwise important conversation. Rather than shining a light on the importance of bringing connectivity to the world’s poor, we inevitably [...]
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by Erik Kain on November 13, 2011
Panelists at Techonomy make their case for optimism and their enthusiasm is contagious, but human and institutional nature should make skeptics of us all. Capitalism and technology have lifted more people out of abject poverty than anything else in the history of human civilization. And technology is changing the world more rapidly now than ever [...]
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