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Michael Marsicano
Smuggling foreign media into North Korea has mostly been handled with low tech tools—trucks, simple balloons, hand deliveries. But that doesn’t mean high tech solutions can’t also pierce the Luddite bubble. That’s where a hackathon comes in. Last summer, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and programmers pitched new methods of cross-border data penetration to North Korean activists at an event organized by the Human Rights Foundation. The goal: to get Korean information activists to start experimenting with tools devised by American engineers. The hackathon’s winning team was flown to Seoul for a round of meetings with North Korean defector groups. Here are some of the ideas the event produced.
Read our April cover story on the North Korean data-smuggling movement.
Michael Marsicano
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