Emprendedorismo tecnológico que supera la pobreza

Meet the entrepreneur who has lifted 15,000 young people over the poverty line In rural Northern Uganda, a group of workers assemble each day in a shipping container, which is equipped with solar panels on the roof and high-speed Internet access. These workers are trained by an U.S.-based nonprofit organization called Samasource to perform work for fast-growing tech companies like LinkedIn and Eventbrite. At Samasource’s helm is a 31-year-old San Franciscan: Leila Janah. Inspiration for the company struck when Janah was just a teenager and teaching English to high school students in Ghana. During this trip, she noticed that the country’s most talented and well-educated young people could not...

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Internet global para todos y todas

Zuckerberg anunció un plan para llevar Internet a todo el mundoEl proyecto, llamado Internet.org, permitirá conectar a la red a 5.000 millones de personas que todavía no tienen acceso. LÍDER. Zuckerberg lidera un plan para llevar Internet a todo el mundo. Aunque para muchos navegar por Internet forma parte de sus actividades cotidianas, el acceso a la red sólo está disponible para 2.700 millones de personas en el mundo, poco más de un tercio de la población total del planeta. El resto, los otros dos tercios, que son habitantes -en su mayoría- de países en vías de desarrollo, se encuentran apartados del mundo digital. Pero esto podría cambiar a partir de un proyecto a cargo del fundador de Facebook Mark Zuckerberg. Junto a otros...

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Enseñando a programar a un croto

That Homeless Guy Accepted The NYC Programmer's Offer To Learn How To Code CAROLINE MOSS Business Insider Yesterday, NYC programmer Patrick McConlogue made internet waves with a post on Medium that suggested he wanted to teach the homeless how to code. In an interview with Business Insider, the 23-year-old said he simply wanted to give the homeless man he sees on his way to work each morning a choice: he could take $100 in cash or get the chance to learn a new trade. If the man rejected the money, McConlogue would provide him with a laptop and coding books, as well as one hour of coding lessons a day for two months.  The whole thing caused a lot of people in the tech world to blast McConlogue for...

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