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How can one use technology to help oppressed people regain their voice?
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by thginedoc
4018 days ago
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Nairobi's premier university is under siege as the country tries to come to terms with the death of two students on campus. http://utafitini.com/home/post/1760/university-of-nairobi-students-killed-following-theft-allegations Some quarters say the dead students were thieves who were caught stealing a laptop and mob justice was mete on them while others say the two students were killed by gangs for yet to be known reasons. How can developer/s best leverage technology to give people who have become passive participants their voice back to fight for their rights? |
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The fundamental problem with pitching a technology as one that helps people fight for their rights is that such technology is banned by the oppressing regime very soon.
However, there have been a lot of cases where apps (with different main use cases) have been used by oppressed communities to communicate. Two apps immediately come to mind:
1) Firechat: Hong Kong protesters used this app to communicate with each other without being intercepted by authorities.
2) Threema: An app which provides end to end encryption of messages is serving as a life-saver for the LGBT community in Lebanon and Iran where the punishment for being gay is death.