Digital Inclusivity: Is Your Smartphone a Privilege or a Right? | Neor Tiku | TEDxUBC

At the age of 16, Neor co-founded the Connect Vancouver Foundation, a youth-run organization dedicated to making technology and the internet more accessible to Vancouver’s homeless and at-risk. Since 2014, the organization has focused on providing free smartphones and phone plans to some of the cities most vulnerable, while also recently launching digital literacy training programs. www.connectvancouver.org/ Digital Inclusivity: Is your smartphone a privilege or a right?" Neor's talk is sure to make you deliberate the grey areas where right and privilege collide, promising a resounding conclusion to that question. Neor Tiku is a 3rd-year Political Science student at the University of British Columbia. At the age of 16, Neor co-founded the Connect Vancouver Foundation, a youth-run organization dedicated to making technology and the internet more accessible to Vancouver’s homeless and at-risk. For almost five years, the organization has focused on providing free smartphones and phone plans to some of the cities most vulnerable, while also recently launching digital literacy training programs. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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