Can Technology End Poverty? 1991
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If you believe the hype, technology is going to help us end global poverty. Advances have indeed made a huge difference in the lives of the poor, but there's also a healthy amount of skepticism out there. Berkeley researcher Kentaro Toyama has a blog dedicated to calling out naïve or inappropriate uses of information and communication technologies (ICT). Calling himself the ICT4D jester (using the development jargon for "information and communication technologies for development"), he has no shortage of material. We've all heard stories of computers that sit unused in African classrooms; on a recent post, the jester takes aim at texting cows.
But what if the city could work toward automating this permitting process? What if the city could use mapping technology to figure out where unpermitted billboards and other code violations were cropping up? It wouldn’t solve problems related to bureaucratic sluggishness, but it would at least allow the city to enforce code violations without having to regularly send city employees out to inspect its 4, 300 a long way of highways.
Inside Chi town, that could be billboards (Mayor Rahm Emanuel said against the law billboard enforcement could deliver the city a supplementary $2. 5 thousand in duty earnings in 2011). Inside some other towns, the technology could be useful for other items. Nyc, as an example, is at discussions together with CityScan concerning design web site allows, Saez claims. Of course, if L . a . (d)evolves in to a Demolition Man-like upcoming, CityScan could probably offer information regarding any time subterranean graffiti pranksters come out in to the seemingly hellish The southern part of Los angeles sunlight.
