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Can We Save The World With Social Media?

Event SXSW Interactive 2009
Format Panel
Organizer Leslie Poston – Uptown Uncorked
Description Using the social media bubble and social media tools to find real world solutions to issues like the poverty gap, gender gap, generation gap, race bias online and more. Directing the rapidly moving networks to solve problems that government and organizations cant, leveraging the speed and connection of the social web for good not evil. Online solutions to real world problems.
Questions
Answered
  1. What are the pressing issues facing technology and society?
  2. Where do current technology and social media applications fail in solving these issues?
  3. What does the gap between the issues and technological reality mean for the United States as a contender in global economy?
  4. How can we leverage social media and technology to bridge these gaps?
  5. Can an online network exert influence over an offline problem?
  6. What are practical necessities we must achieve to bring our tools out of the bubble and into the hands of people who need them?
  7. How do we turn needs into realities a far as technology access and knowlege?
  8. In a world where access to broadband in a becoming more of a right than a want, how do we make it a reality for everyone?
  9. How to determine how you can help?
  10. How to go about leveraging small networks as well as large ones to create an overarching umbrella effect of change?
Level Intermediate
Category Human / Social Issues
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