Empowering the community through mobile libraries: Jessa Lingel at TEDxBendSalon

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2014 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Jessa Lingel is an information activist and Postdoc at Microsoft Research New England, where she works on  information inequality and technological distributions of power. She will discuss the a bookmobile project in Port-au-Prince Haiti as an example of activist work that successfully draws on local infrasturctures and knowledges.
 
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