Melinda Gates: Technology Now Has the Power to Move People

In the early 1990s, Melinda Gates recalls when she and her husband Bill were moved by child mortality figures. In the 1960s, some 20 million children died each year. The number has significantly reduced since then.

But most people aren’t really moved by statistics, Gates acknowledges. She admits she didn’t understand the full picture of child mortality and extreme poverty until she took her first trip to India and Thailand in 2001, and met the families behind the figures.

“I realized that their hopes and aspirations and dreams aren’t that different than ours,” Gates said on stage Monday at the Social Good Summit. “They dream about the same thing, but they often don’t have the same set of tools or the things aren’t in place in their country for them to lift up their lives and realize those dreams.” Read more…

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