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Instead of thinking about the ways lack of access to media creates opportunity for piracy, and how increasing the access to products could help stave off illegal downloads, too often people want to take legal measures or implement digital protection on their products.
The show's curator, Brendan McGetrick, tells The Creators Project that for him, the projects in the show represent a kind of "collective intelligence, channeled through the various schools and pointed at the pressing issues of our time: how to increase access to education food and shelter; how to encourage enhance and building community; how to reduce waste and generate clean energy".
They discussed ongoing conundrums like how to increase access to education at MIT without increasing the class size or number of residential dorms, and how to give students more flexibility in their education.
Most of the debate will revolve around questions about human rights, technological innovation and — in the wake of the Wikileaks Afghanistan release — how to protect national security while increasing access to information online.
Last year, we held our first Startup Battlefield Africa in Nairobi, where startups from across the continent highlighted how technology is optimizing supply chains, increasing access to education, strengthening farmers' revenues and so much more.
Is this how you increase access?
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings established the commission last fall to study how to increase access, affordability and accountability in higher education.
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