Name: Insights: Sandberg on How Tech Can Combat Income Inequality
Uploaded: 2020-01-30
Duration: 2 min 30 s
Description: The Facebook COO discusses the role technology plays in solving inequality problems around the world. (November 2015)

[MUSIC PLAYING] Inequality is a big issue. No one can sit on the stage or anywhere and not believe that inequality is a huge issue within our country and in the world. But technology and the progress it creates, creates a cure and a treatment for leprosy, creates a cure and a treatment-- or not a cure yet, but a treatment for AIDS that's working. We definitely have inequality of opportunity in the United States. You cannot look at our school system and decide that there is now a huge inequality of outcomes. And the clear message for everyone is education matters. And we are stuck with an education system that was created around an agricultural calendar that makes no sense in schools that are failing that we refuse. And technology ought to be able to help. Of course. Technology can help. Because what you can have is the very best teachers in the world like Sal Khan, able to anyone to access this. Technology can help us do what has to be done in education, which is measure progress. Because that is the only way we can understand progress. And so what's very clear is we all agree on equality of opportunity. We know we don't have it. And we can't have it until we fix our school systems. And in the global economy, if you look at the students our country is turning out and you look at the students in other countries, as a country, we should be panicked about our education. How do we have an impact on the people in the world who need growth, who need education, who need clean water? So here's what we know. World Bank global poverty is $1.25 a day. One in six people on the planet live under that line. In the United States, if you are the average connected Facebook user, your implicit data charges for Facebook are $1 a day. So you want to talk about inequality. That's inequality. Those of us in this room are using in Facebook data what other people are living on per day. So then the question becomes, how are we going to take the people who are really at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder and lift their lives up? And for them, this means healthier, longer, happier lives. Going to bed not hungry, living in places where there isn't war, this is the most important inequality in the world. And the only answer any of us have is technology. And so one of the things Facebook is doing is we have something we call internet.org where we're working on making apps and making apps available that are cheaper to get data to people. And then what happens? They can sell their crops for better prices in the markets. They can save their pregnancies and save their children because they can get access to health care. We already have millions of people connected, and these stories are pouring in. And so that's where I think the focus needs to be, is, how do we take what is happening and improve the lives of the people that need it the most? 

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Sandberg on How Tech Can Combat Income Inequality

The Facebook COO discusses the role technology plays in solving inequality problems around the world. (November 2015)

quality of no one anywhere, not believe that inequality is a huge issue within our country and in the world. But technology and the progress that creates creates a cure and treatment for leprosy. Create, secure and a treatment not a cure yet, but a treatment for AIDS that's working. We definitely have an equality of opportunity and United States. You cannot look at our school system and decide that there's not a huge inequality that comes in a clear message for everyone is education matters, and we're stuck with an education system that was created around an agricultural calendar that makes no sense in schools that are failing that we that we were technology ought to be able to help. The technology can help, because what you can have is the very best teachers in the world. Like Sal Khan, able able to anyone to access this technology can help us do what has to be done in education, which is measure progress because that is the only way we can understand progress. So what's very clear? We all agree on equality of opportunity. We know we don't have it, and we can't have it until we fix actual system and in the global economy. If you look at the students, our country's turning out and you look at other countries as a country, we should be panicked about our education. How do we have an impact on the people in the world who need growth rate education who need clean water? No. Here's what we know. World Bank Global poverty is a dollar 25 a day. One and six people on the planet live under that line in the United States. If you're the average connected Facebook user, your implicit data charges for Facebook are a dollar a day. Do you want to talk about inequality? That's inequality. Those of us in this room are using in Facebook data what other people are living on her day. So then the question becomes, How are we gonna take the people who are really at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder and lift their lives up? And for them, this means healthier, longer, happier lives, going to bed, not hungry, living in places where there isn't war. This is the most important inequality in the world. And the only answer any of us have a technology. And so one of the things Facebook's doing is we have something we call Internet chat or where we're working on making APS and making up available that are cheaper to get data to people. And then what happens? They can tell their crops for better prices in the market. They can save their pregnancies and save their Children because they can get access to healthcare. We already have millions of people connected in these stories are pouring in, and and that's where I think the focus needs to be, is how do we take what is happening and improve the lives of the people that need it the most?