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Andrés Monroy-Hernández

Andrés Monroy-Hernández is a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab. His work on social computing focuses on the design of online spaces that support collaboration and remixing. As part of his research, he created the Scratch website, an online community where young people from around the world share their own animations and video games.

The Problem with Crowdsourcing Crime Reporting Jul 27, 2012

There has been some excitement about the idea of using technology to address the problems of the Mexican Drug War. As someone involved in technology, I find it inspiring that other techies are trying to do something to end the … Continue reading →

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Is Anonymous vetting presidential candidates? Apr 16, 2012

Anonymous Hispano, the Spanish-speaking branch of the famous hacker collective, issued a statement a few weeks ago announcing that, despite their efforts, they “could not find any evidence of corruption” to incriminate the Mexican presidential candidate López Obrador. The group prefaced their message by clarifying … Continue reading →

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Mexico murders show how Internet empowers, threatens Sep 18, 2011

I wrote this op-ed for CNN and I thought you might find it interesting. Two days ago, I learned about two young people killed by drug gangs in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, their corpses bound and hung … Continue reading →

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