Technology starts with experiments, projects and people that try to do what others think off. It doesn’t matter if it is space, vehicles or people, there is always something being done that might end up in your car, you house or your pocket.

Disruption is everywhere. Every industry goes through the same cycle of disruption out of which the agile and the creative will emerge triumphant and incumbents have to evolve or become irrelevant. Successful modern enterprises are all at the heart of vibrant eco-systems - evolving continuously and creating new opportunities and value along the way, often in new categories and markets.

But what of the development industry? Traditional aid organization continue to work in product/project-cycles as they did over the last 50 years. Incumbents are slow, rigid, conservative, inefficient and non tech-savvy. A $100b/ year industtry ready to be disrupted.

Using an ubiquitous and simple technology (SMS) and a really clever business logic, Movercado creates powerful retailing, communication and payment structures on bottom-of pyramid markets, leading to increased efficiency of aid distribution and creating real economic value on these markets.

Amazon and Wal-Mart meets Visa and PayPal. At the Bottom of the Pyramid.

What does informatics has to do with coconut trees? Can rolling dices change the world? Have social networks existed before the Internet? We start from the antipodes, Timor-Leste, to realize that there is a line that separates those who have access to the new information technologies and communication from those who don't. And the impact they can have in the development of society and in terms of responsiveness to the challenges of today. In the middle we jump to Mozambique, where a digital inclusion project based on mobile technologies - and chalk boards! - may be causing changes in society. From global to local, also here in central Porto the ingredients of Transparency Hackday mix information, computing and the possible interactions between technology and citizenship.