{"id":85065,"date":"2018-11-24T01:02:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T09:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/some-good-tech-news-entrepreneurs-leverage-tech-for-economic-inclusion"},"modified":"2018-11-24T01:02:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T09:02:27","slug":"some-good-tech-news-entrepreneurs-leverage-tech-for-economic-inclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/some-good-tech-news-entrepreneurs-leverage-tech-for-economic-inclusion","title":{"rendered":"Some Good Tech News: Entrepreneurs Leverage Tech for Economic Inclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/some-good-tech-news-entrepreneurs-leverage-tech-for-economic-inclusion.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Between the never-ending stream of news linking bad actors to social networks and studies documenting society\u2019s growing smartphone addiction, it seems almost wrong today to think that technology can \u2014 ahem \u2014 help make the world a better place.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why I am thankful for the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mitinclusiveinnovation.com\/\">Inclusive Innovative Challenge<\/a>, hosted by MIT\u2019s Initiative on the Digital Economy. Launched in 2016, the IIC seeks out and awards entrepreneurs that are leveraging technology advances to reinvent the future of work. That\u2019s right. There remains, even in this news cycle, firms committed to tapping technology\u2019s ability to connect\u2014and not divide\u2014people and build\u2014and not threaten\u2014jobs and other economic activities.<\/p>\n<p>Or, as the challenge organizers put it:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/cio\/2018\/11\/23\/some-good-tech-news-entrepreneurs-leverage-tech-for-economic-inclusion\/\">https:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/cio\/2018\/11\/23\/some-good-tech-news-ent...inclusion\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between the never-ending stream of news linking bad actors to social networks and studies documenting society\u2019s growing smartphone addiction, it seems almost wrong today to think that technology can \u2014 ahem \u2014 help make the world a better place. That\u2019s why I am thankful for the annual Inclusive Innovative Challenge, hosted by MIT\u2019s Initiative on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1878,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-employment","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}