In the last couple years or so I've had the opportunity to travel Morocco, heard stories from my mom who volunteered as a doctor in Haiti after the earthquake,

In the last couple years or so I've had the opportunity to travel Morocco, heard stories from my mom who volunteered as a doctor in Haiti after the earthquake, and got an opportunity to discuss some of the challenges that volunteers on the ground face with someone high up in Engineers Without Boarders. After all of these experiences I have grown very cynical about the ability for us to create a long lasting positive change around the world. There is so much that needs to happen in poorer countries in order for then to reach sustainable improvement that it's becoming harder and harder for me to believe that it is possible. The one thing that I would say would make a drastic improvement is a complete overhaul of the education system, and I think they need to emulate online education that is on the rise in north america rather then our traditional school structure. Now maybe it's just that I am a developer and I have an instinct to see technology as the solution, but I honestly think that it would solve a lot of the major problems. 1) It allows people to work through material at their own pace so in countries where people are not able to get educations due to having to work full time this would allow them to get an education at the pace that they are able to. 2) Having access to teachers and curriculum that is well above what is currently available would allow people to learn things they would have never been able to since often people with those kinds of expertise are near non-existent in these poorer countries. It may sound weird but I honestly believe that for these countries to improve we need to commit to establishing solid internet availability worldwide, and making a high quality free online education to everyone world wide.