Traditional education is an investment opportunity that we ask our young people to make, every morning. Yet from the perspective of an investor, the product is over a century old, with few upgrades and no overhaul. And while the product continues to deprecate, the barrier to entry doesn’t deprecate along with it. The other investors in your community are withdrawing, because too few of them have seen any return. And the product was built with absolutely no regard for the actual needs of the market. So…would you invest? David Delmar is an artist, designer and Founder/Executive Director of Resilient Coders, a volunteer-based program focused on making web technology more available to urban youth who might not otherwise be exposed to it. His mission is to spread code literacy to communities underrepresented in technology by targeting youth who are at-risk or have been caught up in the court system. He believes in the resilience of Boston’s youth and that technology provides an opportunity for true meritocracy. Before launching Resilient Coders, he led a team of designers and coders at PayPal. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
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