One demonstration of the mobilizing potential of online learning content is the sheer quantity of nonprofit organization websites. Nonprofits around the globe use the internet to fundraise, recruit volunteers, and provide learning content about their programs and social problems they are fighting to address.

Or exchanges like this: A group of malaria researchers in a remote area of Kenya begins to benefit from free internet access to full-text articles from selected journals, offering in return answers to the publishers’ questions about the value of the journals’ learning content to their research. Technology-aided collaboration for the public good–that’s the future of technology I’d like to see.