I care deeply about using technology to solve social problems. Below are some resources on this theme.
Relevant Courses:
Several institutes have created courses that discuss the challenges of designing technological solutions for difficulties faced by the developing world. In this setting, the constraints are very different - usually such designs have to take into account local availability of labor and material, extremely low cost, robust to power failures and such other issues. Below is a list of some excellent courses I know of.
Talks
Books
- The one world schoolhouse, by Salman Khan.
- Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism, by Muhammad Yunus.
- I have a dream by Rashmi Bansal
Articles
Miscellaneous.
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