2020-02-18 18:43:49 UTC - Castro Mbithii: Hi all, over the last 8 months, we have spent a good amount of time writing an article to address an issue I care about immensely and that I think we should all care about as developers, product builders, entrepreneurs, designers, academics, and technologists. It presents a back-of-the-envelope argument for *what exactly it would take to end world poverty and racial power imbalance in 1 generation* at macroscopic scale. I think it is indeed possible and will take $20T in GDP growth from majority world countries. How can we go beyond “Guns, Germs, and Steel” and “Poor Economics” and look at things from a more entrepreneurial / design perspective?
This article covers topics such as industry-driven conditional cash transfer for talent creation, majority world workforce development, and diverse globally distributed teams. I think that high tech industries’ demand for talent, rising global internet access (60%), and underutilized online learning material make a particularly interesting industry-driven development possible. I would greatly appreciate your thoughts and feedback even if you take just a brief skim of the listicle’s bullet points. <https://blog.learningdollars.com/2019/11/17/how-to-end-world-poverty-and-racial-power-imbalance-in-1-generation/> https://openwhisk-team.slack.com/archives/C3UDXSFA6/p1582051429016800?thread_ts=1582051429.016800&cid=C3UDXSFA6 ---- 2020-02-18 18:44:16 UTC - Castro Mbithii: Also we hosted a webinar with 6 Nigerian, 1 Ugandan, and 1 Indian software developers to discuss the topic <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqxiMkxgryM> https://openwhisk-team.slack.com/archives/C3UDXSFA6/p1582051456017000?thread_ts=1582051429.016800&cid=C3UDXSFA6 ----
