{"id":384,"date":"2014-02-01T01:39:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T01:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolsociology.net\/SOAN324WP\/?p=384"},"modified":"2014-07-13T05:36:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T05:36:03","slug":"black-techies-hackathon-honors-mlk-by-supporting-programs-that-help-poor-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"Black Techies ‘Hackathon’ honors MLK by supporting programs that help poor people"},"content":{"rendered":"

This isn’t specifically about homelessness, but it is a cool example of how educated people can use tech to help others. Kyle Wanamaker (the son of one of my former students), organized a ‘hackaton’ to develop apps, programs, and other software to solve ordinary people’s problems. One example: an app that helps poor people figure out where to vote — and overcome the hurdles that richer folk have put in their way.<\/p>\n

I wonder what the rest of us can do to help poor people, including homeless people, take control of their own lives.<\/p>\n

Check it out: http:\/\/m.blackenterprise.com\/p.p?m=b&a=rp&id=1431813934&postId=1431813934&postUserId=2609744<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This isn’t specifically about homelessness, but it is a cool example of how educated people can use tech to help others. Kyle Wanamaker (the son of one of my former students), organized a ‘hackaton’ to develop apps, programs, and other software to solve ordinary people’s problems. One example: an app that helps poor people figure … Continue reading Black Techies ‘Hackathon’ honors MLK by supporting programs that help poor people<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-link","category-related-topics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47OlK-6c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}