Peacetech in the Age of the Entrepreneur
C5 Accelerate
In a metallic gold tent in the atrium of the United States Institute of Peace, my colleague and I sang “Happy Birthday” to an eighty-year-old woman living in Mexico City. Rendered life-size on screen, she sat in a tent that looked just the same as the one we sat in, but with our faces looking back at hers, 2,409 miles away.
The genuine connection we shared through Shared Studio’s patented portal technology is an example of peace technology, and its power to build human networks of trust across geographical and cultural boundaries.