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USF BPS Professor David Batstone (right) with Twitter Co-founder Jack Dorsey (center) and Michael Kieschnick, co-founder and president of Credo Mobile
The relevance and significance of social media as a means for empowering social change was the question that engaged two of the leaders in those fields recently as part of the on-going Abolition Conversations.
David Batstone is a member of the faculty of USF School of Business and Professional Studies, the President and Co-founder of Not For Sale Campaign and founder of Business 2.0 magazine. USA Today has called him “America’s business ethics guru.” Not For Sale is an international organization united to fight the global slave trade and end human trafficking.
Jack Dorsey, Co-founder of Twitter took an interest in open source dispatch software as a young teenager and developed that exploration into an international messaging network that has not only effected millions of users, young and old, but has demonstrated measurable influence in political actions from Moldova to Iran and beyond.
Michael Kieschnick, moderator of the discussion, is the co-founder and president of Credo Mobile the cell phone company that commits a percentage of its profits to social causes.
The discussion took place before a sold-out audience at The Hub, in San Francisco — global network of locally-based work spaces that serve as social platforms for change-makers, entrepreneurs, and social innovators, and as “accelerators” for profit/nonprofit entities.
As Mr. Dorsey said: “how can we develop technological methods that will surface relevant information to individuals? That is what will lead to context, empathy, and ultimately peace.”
