Social Media in a Low Tech, High Conflict Environment: Afghanistan

From Combat Soldier to Social Entrepreneur

Yanki Margalit of SpaceIL speaks about his evolution from a child of war to an entrepreneurial adulthood. Read the full transcript below. (Transcript by Realtime Transcription.) Kirkpatrick: So now, we have this thing we do...

Are Media Companies One Native Ad Away from Becoming Press-titutes?

Eileen Guo of Impassion Afghanistan at Techonomy 2015.

180 Shift: The Fallacy of Exporting Tech Solutions to the Middle East

Regional innovators are bucking the notion that Western imported tech is the solution to the Middle East’s problems. Music, creative ways to bypass censorship, and grassroots literacy are the real paths to change, and are...

Attack of the Chatbots

Eileen Guo of Impassion Afghanistan at Techonomy 2015.