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We have the technology to empower the developing world. Now we need to make it a priority.<\/span><\/p>\n

While Silicon Valley obsesses over which social app Facebook will acquire for billions with the next spin of the wheel, an unsung fleet of entrepreneurs and philanthropists are doggedly working to empower the developing world. Chelsea Clinton took the stage at South By Southwest 2014 to highlight the tech industry\u2019s vast potential for social good on a global scale.<\/p>\n

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Chelsea Clinton took the stage at South By Southwest 2014 to highlight the tech industry\u2019s vast potential for social good on a global scale. Photo by Taylor Hatmaker. Source: ReadWrite<\/p><\/div>\n

“Throughout the 20th century, individuals who wanted to engage in philanthropy had limited ways to do so,\u201d said Clinton, former first daughter and current vice chair of her family\u2019s philanthropic powerhouse, the Clinton Foundation. “Technology has disrupted the very nature of how we can improve the world by empowering individuals to make a difference,\u201d she said. “Giving, volunteering and contributing all have been democratized like never before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, it’s not all glamorous work. Clinton said the word “diarrhea” roughly ten times in her hour on stage, noting that the fatal epidemic of childhood diarrhea makes her “really, really angry.” At the intersection of technology and social good, the stakes couldn’t be higher nor the time more right.<\/p>\n

Thinking Outside The Snowglobe<\/p>\n

Many challenges in what Clinton calls the \u201cdevelopment space” (think “developing world,” not “software developer”) would likely never occur to those head down chasing exorbitant rounds of venture capital for the next Big Big Thing. Take, for instance, Sproxil, a service that lets citizens of Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya and India authenticate medications through simple text messaging.<\/p>\n

Sproxil tackles a challenge with a human price of 700,000 quiet deaths each year, largely due to counterfeit antimalarial and tuberculosis drugs. Other segments of development tech are better known. Kiva, a microfinance non-profit, lets ordinary folks lend small amounts of money to create opportunities and ameliorate poverty in 73 countries around the world. M-PESA, a small value payments and store of value service, went viral providing banking to Kenyans with even the most basic mobile phones.<\/p>\n

Toppling The Silos<\/p>\n

Clinton stresses that while “first” may be best in Silicon Valley, best is actually best in development tech. Creating an efficient, thoughtfully conceived tool\u2014one that\u2019s affordable, easy to distribute and meets the particular needs of a developing zone\u2014is far more critical than being first out of the gate. With a shared end goal of global good, second and third are just fine.<\/p>\n

Most of us take cultural privileges like regulated pharmaceuticals, loan institutions and ready access to basic banking for granted. But in the developing world, these tools are powerful beyond imagination. Getting them right is important. To move forward, a shared spirit of collaboration\u2014rather than a hyper-competitive silo mentality\u2014proves crucial.<\/p>\n

Quantifying Change<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yet another huge challenge in the field of development tech is a dearth of data, which makes it hard to just to get a handle on the task at hand\u2014never mind tracking its progress. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to standardize data that doesn\u2019t exist,\u201d Clinton said.<\/p>\n

While developed nations are quantifying the minutiae of their morning runs and TV habits, over in the Congo, two-thirds of births aren\u2019t ever recorded. Robust, big, aggregated data is a steep obstacle in countries that still struggle to meet far more basic needs than quantifying their own problems.<\/p>\n

Political corruption in many of these development zones is systemic, which makes international aid efforts tricky. Easy, transparent technology systems that track “where the money goes” is yet another layer to tackle.<\/p>\n

“Technology has the potential to revolutionize the way development measures, reports and analyzes the success and failures of its work,\u201d Clinton said. \u201cI know that the work we\u2019re doing [at the Clinton Foundation] has impact because we\u2019re obsessed with tracking data and results.”<\/p>\n

These are tough problems, but they\u2019re certainly not impossible to solve. The biggest problem of all? The fact that the tech community hasn\u2019t yet disrupted what disrupts so many lives in the developing world.<\/p>\n

Lead image by Taylor Hatmaker for ReadWrite<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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