Sorry for my Naivete, but I think that the world priorities must be peace, health and poverty.
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Which one of those isn't furthered by the internet? It's not hard to argue the fundamental merit in people working on advancing communication across the globe.
I think that there are shorter ways to accomplish it beyond Internet communication.
Then I guess you know what your next project is going to be.
I don't think I have the talent from that.
That's why the article is important, a lot of minds are spending time in lower priority items from a humanistic point of view.
It doesn't take a clever computer scientist to set out for world peace, ending poverty and increasing health.
If you really feel so strongly about it why not set up a fund that attempt to fund exactly those 3 areas.
Talent has nothing to do with it.
You must be joking. An Egyptian couple recently named their daughter "Facebook" due to the instrumental role that Facebook played in the overthrow of the Egyptian government. Other rebellions have used Twitter extensively. YouTube was instrumental in publicly shaming a racist senator whose loss gave the Democrats the Senate.
There are lots of projects working on peace, health and poverty where someone with your skills could could help or work.
Do you mind telling me about some projects in those fields(health specially)?. I'm learning about data mining/machine learning and I'd love to know how this fields are applied to solve important problems and what I can do to help.
don't have specific projects on a list that fits you, but I am sure there are projects out there which needs you help, both projects where you can volunteer or where you can get a job. For a start you could check out our list of health and IT projects in our system, for organisations which work in this area.
http://www.akvo.org/rsr/projects/healthcare/?page=1
Four years ago I was telling people in a session about water and development aid that they should use modern IT and web tools to do their work more effectively. As a result I ended up talking to Jeroen van der Sommen, now our chairman, and we decided to start Akvo.org to provide those tools. There is a huge need for IT tools in humanitarian aid and development work. You could be working on that if you are interested.
I'll email you.