The smartest people in our generation are optimizing newsfeeds. Analyzing millions of data points, creating algorithms and making smart recommendations.
These skills are commonplace in Silicon Valley, and completely missing in most of our biggest charities and government agencies. Instead, these institutions are using technologies that are 10-20 years old, and the communities they serve are worse off for it.
How do we get the most skilled workers into new public service fields? Or is there some future where all companies and organizations get universal basic technology?
The trickle down theory of tech is that since Slack is free, teams will adopt it and get more efficient. But it’s just not true. Too many people are stuck doing things the way they’ve always done them. The tech revolution is here. It’s on our iPhones, in our apps, it just hasn’t quite made it into our governing bodies.