Attar: Humanitarian aid apps and tech innovation hype are largely meaningless
Lena Sergi Attar · a16z Podcast | Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis · Jan 2, 2019 · at 22:12
Lina Sergie Attar, co-founder of the Karam Foundation, critiques Silicon Valley tech solutionism in the context of addressing the global Syrian refugee crisis.
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“The word innovation or, you know, apps Yes, for humanitarian aid have become almost meaningless because everybody thinks that they can create an app and it's going to solve the problem, or we can paste the word innovation on anything, and that basically becomes innovative, and it's really not.”
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