Today, was a usual day for me as a student. I went to all my classes on time and spent alot of time doing homework. The one part of my day that was different was that I spent more time than normal reading news reports but with the purpose of trying to finding good stories that are enjoyable to read and not the usual crime and negative stories that are very easy to find.
The best report I read was about how Kenyan's and Canadian programmers plan to compete over Skype in a 28 hour "hackathon" to try and improve Kenyans farms, health and also their access to education. Computer programmers on certain teams in Kenya and Canada will brainstorm on waysto better Kenya and also will write software to develop apps that aim to lessen poverty within Kenya. The apps created by the Kenyans and Canadians will also have blogs where people can talk about their situations and the what they've been through whether it about poverty issues or social injustice . The focus of the "hackathon" is to use technology as a force for social justice and change.
I mostly enjoyed reading about how Kenya and Canada are teaming up to try and solve problems that have been present for quite sometime without real change. Its great to see people working together to try and fix problems, but with alternative solutions than tried in the past. I feel like technology plays a major role in helping to end poverty around the world because its provides the best platforms for people to communicate and understand each other. In alot of struggling nations with high poverty rates they don't always have all the technology in place to erase problems like poverty but soon all nations will hopefully have the correct technology and use it as a powerful tool to solve problems.
The article I read can be found on Reuters.com and was very inspirational to me. Overall, I'd rather read a good story over a bad story any day out the week.
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