 Prologue, there is a person called Tim Unwin who uses social media and he has posted five pictures on Twitter and Facebook He invites you to look at them. There was a young boy who loved running. He loved running He ran at 16 a 2,000 meter steeplechase at the first water jump. He broke his leg and he finished the race Subsequently he did go on to complete the first London marathon as a student at the best university in the world He was inspired by Marxist theory and Harbour masses critical theory scene one a Little boy holding so a little girl holding his blind brother holding her blind brother's hand By a car on the streets of Chakradarpo in what was South Bihar now Jharkhand in 1976 I Was working for a dear friend who was studying the hearts in rural India I was doing my PhD on the mathematical modeling of medieval systems is medieval settlement systems Programming in Fortran and one thing doing wonderful models and dreaming the technology is indeed going to change the world Walking through the hearts talking with the poorest people I'd ever met. I learned that poverty is not about economic growth poverty is about reducing inequality scene two Some street children in Nazareth in Ethiopia playing with my sony via Do you remember this in? 2001 I loved tech those of you here at the new millennium We dreamt who had changed the world we dreamt there wasn't going to be any more war We dreamt that this kit Was indeed going to make the world a better place I Had an immensely privileged job an opportunity to work with people across Africa To understand how they can use technology to improve their education scene three crypto anarchy I Learned how powerful technology was I loved it. I'm a geek. I was programming. I was designing kit And slowly slowly Shue Shue slowly I Learned that this kit could be used to do as much bad as it does good And yet we choose to believe that it will make the world a better place somehow the novelty of the young geek still survives Technology will deliver the SDGs as Ted has said what a load of rubbish Technology will do nothing technology is designed by people such as us for particular interests and It can then be used for good or for bad Please never again say that I see teas are going to deliver the SDGs People creating I see teas or could use them to do something that might help eliminate poverty scene for a drone With a machine gun hence the assassin The drone with the machine gun I Have a young colleague who is a brilliant computer scientist developing the algorithms for search and rescue drones now We could use autonomous drones with face recognition in cluster swarms to take out anybody want now Is that right or is that wrong? The use of technology for development is above all a moral agenda scene five scene five three Afghan refugees In Pakistan Alone the people who we want to use our technologies to transform their lives How wrong how wrong? We've already discovered on this journey this short journey that it is Who designs the technology for what purpose in what interests that is going to change the world? friends we can choose to serve the interests of global capital Or we can choose to serve the interests of my Afghan refugee friends of people with disabilities women patriarchal societies And our greatest gift is a privilege we have had It's the education I have had But not to use that to say I am in some way good or successful It is friends colleagues take away one thing Become the servants of the poor if you really want to impact development through the use of technology