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Not saying it's necessarily an example of successful tech, but what about stuff like OLPC? Might break down along "people need this to live, so exploit their need & claim to benefit them" and "this is actually meant to benefit them" products What examples do you have in mind?
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Most tech “designed for the poor” tends to be by well-intentioned nonprofit or public sector efforts. The private sector stuff tends to be either outright predatory like payday loans, or high-grading driven. VC money rarely directly targets low-income markets.
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What’s the dynamic that “keeps them poor”? For OLPC, is it training on the wrong software ecosystem? Or taking the place of some other kind of product? Something else?
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I’ll argue that “technology specifically designed” has less correlation than “with the poor in mind”. Example: cheap food, free news, low cost housing, etc.
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