Who,what motivates individuals is always a question mark. The basic fact that motivates people is TRUST & the ability to trust. Technology gives people wings & only reinforces the trust people will have in each other-the facts is motivation is to do something for me,myself & fame and/or to do for benefiting the whole world without my left hand knowing what the right hand is doing to benefit people. Technology & availability of the tech & using the tech all boils down to what is available - a teeen with a simple blog and/or webpage & a social media presence is as powerful as a big firm today as many people will end up using the ideas - the reach of the teen will be magnified & so will the impact of what is getting done. Feedback keeps coming all the time (negative,critical,indifferent,constructive,motivating) - what is important is getting started by sharing ideas that create value & enable people to ask the right questions - as once the questions get asked it becomes shared,spread & forces the individual,place & community to improve - other places then learn from that example.

The one thing missing from lives of many people is hope of making the difference to one's own life & other people's lives - one person benefited is equivalent to all people being benefited - all this talk about net neutrality is nonsense - the questions that must be asked are:

1. How fast are we those who oppose are making a difference - faster than those who support or not?
2. What is something so very wrong with walled access - something is better than nothing always - the fact is the internet may not be able to feed people - what it does is truly enable people to communicate with each other & that one (1) to many communication enables people to get jobs,get business,help out the masses who are lesser privileged & spread public benefiting messages as in case of say emergencies - further even limit access forces people to truly commit to doing more - everything else is just talk in my opinion!
3. Technology does provide options - the option of not using tech is always there!
4. Efficiency improvements reach faster to people - this impacts lives of ordinary people globally,locally & leads to action on the ground - earlier just how many people heard about say Alliance for energy efficiency, Alliance for Water efficiency, so many useful nonprofits really cleaning up existing places & making the places more livable - a direct result is - Reinforce competency in people & groups instead of direct confrontational competition - and one even learns from competition (even if all the others opposing gang up together).
5. There is always a choice to see the positive,cut down costs & increase opportunities - push the bar higher - that said be flexible & accept mistakes made - most importantly rectify the mistakes!

Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy
http://aeee.in/
AWE

http://www.allianceforwaterefficiency.org/