Connected for a Purpose
2014.05.21
Visionary : Luis von AHN
Connected for a Purpose :
Making Every Second on the Internet Count
More than 2 billion people worldwide spend a portion of their day on the internet for various reasons - and some of them, simply out of habit. What if we can make something out of the massive amount of time spent online? Turning our everyday online activities into collective wisdom that brings practical benefits to our lives, Luis von Ahn has been offering innovative solutions to this challenge, often unbeknownst to us. The pioneer of crowdsourcing behind the creation of CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA is now taking up the challenge of reconnecting the internet that is ‘lost in translation’ with his latest venture, Duolingo. The free language-learning platform has generated a community of over 20 million in less than two years, revolutionizing the way we learn, teach and translate languages online. Luis will describe what led him to create Duolingo and how we can make every second on the internet improve the quality of our lives and of the internet itself.