I saw the title of thisarticle Can 50 Hackers HelpSave the World in One Day? and it immediately grabbedmy attention. I was thinking this sounds interesting what is it about. As Istarted to read the article I had a little grasp what they were trying toachieve but I was not 100% sure.
The article is lacking trulyexplaining what the event is really doing and how it is doing it? In the secondparagraph “The goal is to get coders, designers and other creative types tostart applying their talents to the non-profit and social good sector”. Itexplains what they want them to do but what exactly do they want to achievefrom this for the non-profit sector. I think it’s a great cause for thenon-profit sector but this article is missing crucial information. By using theterm hacking my view is that they are doing something illegal as hacking is aterm I know as used as breaking into a technology system either by lookingaround or taking something with out the users permission. The actual definitionfrom the dictionary ‘use acomputer to gain unauthorized access to data in a system’.
This article could do a lotbetter by giving examples of what they will be doing so the reader can reallyunderstand what they are trying achieve by this event. I think it’s a greatidea as they are taking hacking to the next level and using it for good. Ifpeople can use their hacking skills to help non-profit and the social sectorits amazing. Over the last decade we have become consumed by the internet andby using hackers skills for social justice is something very positive that generallyhas been seen as something frowned upon.
I often read articles onMashable but I have not noticed this before a disclosure down the bottom ofthis article “Disclosure: Mashable is a media partner of Hackfor Change”. So it gets methinking that this is advertising for the event which is great and wouldbenefit the event but the article is very misleading. Looking at the commentspeople seem to be just as confused as I am. As someone mentioned in the comments, Is it hacking or programming?
Againno one seems to know what they are doing. I believe the idea of this article isgreat but at the same time it is damaging to the cause. I think a lot of peoplewill disregard this article because its not clear and seems to be misusing thehacking term.
Whatdo you guys think?
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