May 30, 04:27 pm: [Net2] Race and poverty is the issue

Angela Glover Blackwell is talking about race and poverty. That’s the issue, she says, that our country—the US—is trying to come to grips with. And the changes are in tandem with chnages of technology. “We can put in our own information and make it clear that we are living in a new time,” she says.

Bits:

  • Policy is about taking pre-emptive action
  • Didn’t need katrina for the people in New Orleans to know they are waist deep in poverty
  • Next Action: figure out how to use the new technologies to help people achieve what they want to achieve for themselves
  • new technologies challenge and test us
  • bring notion of voice, participation and agency front and center
  • in the end we want people to be agents of change on their own behalf

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Marnie Webb  |