Britt H. Young Britt H. Young is a writer and PhD candidate in geography at UC Berkeley. She is working on a book of essays on techno-optimism, disability, and prosthetics.

Invested Development | Hacking Ethiopia’s Future

Britt H. Young

A hotel app, but for quarantine! A grocery delivery app, but for people in lockdown! The frenzy of projects proposed by the Ethiopia Covid-19 Response Team (ECRT) to bolster the country’s pandemic response felt appropriate for a group of mostly techies who had never worked in humanitarian or developmental organizations. “We must help the Ministry of Health, give them everything — our best abilities, hearts, and creativity,” one volunteer commanded...