Abstract
Social media, artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain technology, mobile technology, and fintech are just some of the technologies that have revolutionized the way that our society and institutions transact, interact, store data, and develop. In this chapter we discuss the promise and perils of technology as it relates to social impact and investing, including the myths and realities of sociotechnical implementation and the balance of rights.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Allison, Ian. 2018. Hernando de Soto and Patrick Byrne’s Mission to Put the Developing World’s Property Rights on a Blockchain. International Business Times UK, August 28. https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/hernando-de-soto-patrick-byrnes-mission-put-developing-worlds-property-rights-blockchain-1651605.
constituteproject.org. 2017. Read About ‘Right to Privacy’ on Constitute. https://www.constituteproject.org/search?lang=en&key=privacy.
del Castillo, Michael. 2017. A Branch of the UN Just Launched Its First Large-Scale Ethereum Test. CoinDesk (Blog), May. https://www.coindesk.com/the-united-nations-just-launched-its-first-large-scale-ethereum-test.
DeSoto, Inc. 2019. DeSoto Inc. https://www.desoto.com/.
Gladstein, Alex. 2018. Why Bitcoin Matters for Freedom. Time, December 28. https://time.com/5486673/bitcoin-venezuela-authoritarian/.
Govindarajan, Vijay, et al. 2018. Should Dual-Class Shares Be Banned? Harvard Business Review, December 3. https://hbr.org/2018/12/should-dual-class-shares-be-banned.
Harding, Xavier. 2016. Google Has 7 Products With 1 Billion Users. Popular Science, February 1. https://www.popsci.com/google-has-7-products-with-1-billion-users.
Hendriks, Sarah. 2019. How Digital Financial Services Are Empowering Women. IMF Finance & Development Magazine. https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2019/03/how-digital-financial-services-are-empowering-women-hendriks.htm.
Hochstein, Marc. 2017. Blockchain for Inclusion? Gates Foundation Strikes Tepid Tone at Money2020. CoinDesk (Blog), October 23. https://www.coindesk.com/blockchain-inclusion-gates-foundation-strikes-tepid-tone-money2020.
Ingram, Mathew. 2016. Mark Zuckerberg’s Absolute Control Over Facebook Is Not New. Fortune, December 13. http://fortune.com/2016/12/13/zuckerberg-facebook-lawsuit/.
Juskalian, Russ. 2018. Inside the Jordan Refugee Camp That Runs on Blockchain. MIT Technology Review, April 12. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610806/inside-the-jordan-refugee-camp-that-runs-on-blockchain/.
Kafka, Peter. 2013. One Thing Twitter Won’t Have When It Goes Public: Two Classes of Shares. Dow Jones & Company Inc., October 3. http://allthingsd.com/20131003/one-thing-twitter-wont-have-when-it-goes-public-two-classes-of-shares/.
Khan, Roshaan. 2019. Author Interview with Roshaan Khan, Blockshop. Washington, DC, June 20.
Lapowsky, Issie, and Nicholas Thompson. 2019. Facebook’s Pivot to Privacy Is Missing Something Crucial. Wired, March 6. https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-zuckerberg-privacy-pivot/.
Libra.org. 2019a. Libra White Paper | Blockchain, Association, Reserve. https://libra.org/en-US/white-paper/.
Libra.org. 2019b. The Libra Blockchain. https://developers.libra.org/.
McKinlay, John, et al. 2018. Blockchain: Background, Challenges, and Legal Issues. DLA Piper, February 2.
Murphy, Hannah. 2019. Mark Zuckerberg Calls for More Regulation of Big Tech. Financial Times, March 30. https://www.ft.com/content/0af70c80-5333-11e9-91f9-b6515a54c5b1.
Oxford University Press. 2019. Fallacy of Composition | Definition of Fallacy of Composition in English by Oxford Dictionaries. Oxford Dictionaries | English. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/fallacy_of_composition.
Partington, Richard. 2019. France to Block Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency in Europe. The Guardian. September 12. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/12/france-block-development-facebook-libra-cryptocurrency.
pfc Social Impact Advisors. 2018. Launching the Working Capital Fund. A Case Study of Humanity United (G. Peterson, Ed.). St. Paul, MN: Oxford Impact Investing and Social Finance Programmes.
Provenance. 2020. https://www.provenance.org//.
Skoll World Forum. 2018. The Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Impact Finance. Skoll World Forum 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=82nOf3CZpYk&app=desktop.
Statista. 2020c. Number of Monthly Active Twitter Users Worldwide from 1st Quarter 2010 to 1st Quarter 2019. https://www.statista.com/statistics/282087/number-of-monthly-active-twitter-users/.
Tan, Andrea, and Benjamin Robertson. 2017. Why Investors Are Fretting Over Dual-Class Shares. Bloomberg Business Week, July 10. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-10/why-investors-are-fretting-over-dual-class-shares-quicktake-q-a.
World Bank. 2018. Global Findex Database 2017. https://globalfindex.worldbank.org/.
Zuckerberg, Mark. 2018. Hearing Before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary and the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation April 10, 2018. Testimony of Mark Zuckerberg Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Facebook. US Senate, April 10. https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/04-10-18%20Zuckerberg%20Testimony.pdf.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2020 The Author(s)
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Peterson, G., Yawson, R., J. K., E., Nicholls, J. (2020). The Surround Sound of Technology as an Accelerator of Social Good. In: Navigating Big Finance and Big Technology for Global Change. Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40712-4_5
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40712-4_5
Published:
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-40711-7
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-40712-4
eBook Packages: HistoryHistory (R0)