The anarchists, the hackers, and the nerds have stepped in across the world.
Venezualans are heavily using Dash, a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin.
https://www.businessinsider.com/dash-cryptocurrency-surges-in-venezuela-as-hyperinflation-explodes-2018-8
The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective is helping people make their own medication, with low costs replacements for everything from HIV meds to epipens, even birth control.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43pngb/how-to-make-your-own-medicine-four-thieves-vinegar-collective
An estimated 300k people are using cryptocurrency to supplement their incomes in developing nations.
https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-bounty-hunting-is-offering-a-way-out-of-poverty/
The MDRA and others stepped in where the US Government had abandoned their obligation to help in PR.
https://www.newsweek.com/puerto-ricans-restore-power-after-hurricane-maria-1114070
A report on Chinese vaccine fraud was being censored and it was pushed to the Ethereum blockchain to publicize and protect it.
http://fortune.com/2018/07/27/china-blockchain-unsafe-vaccines/
IPFS has climbing adoption and use, which increases the censorship resistance of the content on it.
(Interest has gone from 25/100 to spikes over 75/100, per Google Trends https://trends.google.com/trends/?geo=US)
Across the world, tech is enabling people to regain control and restoring faith in what "community" means.
Respect our existence or expect our resistance.
“Acts of resistance and solidarity are often so small that unless you look closely you may never see them.” – Michael Riordon
Thanks for doing what you do Ash. You're a real inspiration and I'm a fan for life.
Thanks Alan :)
Great post. Needed a bit of hope.
Upvoted, resteemed, followed.
Cheers.
Cool. Do you often do link lists like this?
Occasionally, it was something I wrote last night on my Facebook (minus the links). It's more and more difficult to ignore what is happening in our world and it's the little people who are making the big differences.