Tech entrepreneurs shared how the future of technology
Tech entrepreneurs shared how the future of technology will affect mobile app development at a Minority Media and Telecom Council conference Wednesday. Around the Way is an app for people to find black-owned businesses near them. The application has 17,000…
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businesses available to customers and the company plans to develop new apps related to Hispanics and women-owned businesses, said Eric Hamilton, Around the Way chief marketing officer. “We're interested in the efficiency of processes,” he said. “We are trying to help you find businesses that you have an affinity for and make it more efficient to find those businesses.” NextGen Media President Lisa Jones Johnson said the Internet is getting so large that people need help finding information. “We're interested in human creation,” said Johnson. Bruce Lincoln, Urban Cyberspace Company chief design scientist, emphasized the company Silicon Harlem and their Gigabit Harlem initiative as the future of the Internet. “We need social ventures like telework where we can digitally convey that we have people in the U.S. that can do this kind of work,” Lincoln said. Apps need to be continually upgraded and privacy issues need to be addressed, panelists agreed. “Apps need to think in the long term, like Around the Way, and they need to diversify,” said Ember Media President Clayton Banks.