So, for us, the technologists, what’s important is we always need to build with open API and public code so that the local people who prefer to interact in a different way - we have 20 national languages, 16 Indigenous Nations, 42 language variations - it’s impossible for us to write a solution that works with all of them. Sign language is also a national language here, so we need to work with the civil society and the social entrepreneurs, so that they can remix our services to make more sense to their community. So is technology fitting the local needs as appropriate technology, instead of asking people to conform to our technologies.

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