Immiserating the Poor: We Have An App For That (Social Media vs. the iPhone in Egypt and a Kenyan slum) The app culture is one of individuals and individualized approaches. Apps enable and empower the individual as a consumer, as a communicator, as an information handler. However, many of the major issues in a developing world (and other) environment are not ones that lend themselves readily to individualized responses or individual solution. http://wp.me/pJQl5-5P Michael Gurstein