Blog Action Day: How to combat poverty with technology

Author: Tony

15 Oct

Today is Blog Action Day, a special day for bloggers in which thousands of people get together (virtually) and talk about one subject: poverty.

At MobileWhack we’d like to offer a single tip on how to combat the poorness with technology. The tip is pretty simple: stop buying every top-notch gadget that is released.

In other words, instead of spending money by making monthly replacements of the latest cellphones, laptops, MP3 players, GPS systems, and other devices, save a bit and donate to a charity of your choice. The advice can be obvious and common sense for some folks, but for others that are geek-tech-obsessed it probably won’t be that normal.

Which charity to donate? Your choice! Check this list of charities against poverty and hunger if you’re undecided.

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4 Responses for "Blog Action Day: How to combat poverty with technology"

kouji haiku October 16th, 2008 at 2:25 am 1
indeed.

for my part, i turn to sites like freerice (rice donation), kiva (microfinance), and goodsearch (donation per search), as ways to help alleviate poverty online. i also put up their banners on my blog.

saw this post via the blog action day site. it’s great that you’re participating.
Trevor October 16th, 2008 at 6:33 am 2
ty i’m heading over there now
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cheritycall October 27th, 2008 at 4:13 am 4
How are you?, Do something to help the hungry people from Africa or India,
I made this blog about them:
at http://tinyurl.com/5t2jg6