I lived in Cambodia for a couple years, and I strongly agree that most problems are related to education and health. Having grown up in the United States, where

I lived in Cambodia for a couple years, and I strongly agree that most problems are related to education and health. Having grown up in the United States, where malaria, cholera, and typhoid were essentially eradicated before I was even born (and I picked up every one of those at least once during my stay in Cambodia), I really tend to think that searching for a technological solution is missing the point. Solutions to these health problems already exist: sanitation (i.e. pick up all the garbage on the streets so that flies and rats don't spread, install plumbing and build sewage treatment to stop contaminating drinking water with feces) and mosquito eradication (build drainage systems to deal with monsoons, pick up all the garbage so the drainage systems don't stop up, install plumbing so people stop keeping big open cisterns of rainwater). The reason I got diarrhea all the time was the same reason I had to pay so many bribes: the government was basically incompetent. Malaria, cholera, and typhoid were all widespread in the first world some time ago, and computers were not necessary to eliminate them. I really don't see how hacking per se will solve these problems. You can use computers as tools to advance political change, but this has its limits in a place like Cambodia, where 80% of people are illiterate subsistence rice farmers, and can't even afford a cell phone.