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From the Ted Talk by Jon Gosier: The problem with "trickle-down techonomics"

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A final example from across the world in East Africa: there's been a huge movement to dgziiite land ownership rights, for a number of reasons. mgrinat communities, oledr generations dynig off, and uemttlaily poor record-keeping have led to conflicts over who owns what. And so there was a big moenmvet to put all this information online, to tacrk all the ownership of these plots of land, put them in the cloud, and give them to the communities. But actually, the unintended ceosqnnceue of this has been that venture capitalists, investors, real estate developers, have swooped in and they've begun buying up these plots of land right out from under these communities, because they have access to the technologies and the connectivity that makes that possible.

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A final example from across the world in East Africa: there's been a huge movement to ________ land ownership rights, for a number of reasons. _______ communities, _____ generations _____ off, and __________ poor record-keeping have led to conflicts over who owns what. And so there was a big ________ to put all this information online, to _____ all the ownership of these plots of land, put them in the cloud, and give them to the communities. But actually, the unintended ___________ of this has been that venture capitalists, investors, real estate developers, have swooped in and they've begun buying up these plots of land right out from under these communities, because they have access to the technologies and the connectivity that makes that possible.

Solution


  1. digitize
  2. ultimately
  3. migrant
  4. consequence
  5. dying
  6. older
  7. movement
  8. track

Original Text


A final example from across the world in East Africa: there's been a huge movement to digitize land ownership rights, for a number of reasons. Migrant communities, older generations dying off, and ultimately poor record-keeping have led to conflicts over who owns what. And so there was a big movement to put all this information online, to track all the ownership of these plots of land, put them in the cloud, and give them to the communities. But actually, the unintended consequence of this has been that venture capitalists, investors, real estate developers, have swooped in and they've begun buying up these plots of land right out from under these communities, because they have access to the technologies and the connectivity that makes that possible.

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