Jorge Garcia

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Founder and CEO of Linker Finance, reimagining Mobile and Online Banking for Community…

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  • Common Challenges Of Scaling Development Teams: What To Do When Your Process Doesn't Scale

    Forbes

    In this article I share some insights about the symptoms, challenges and actions we took when scaling our product team from 7 to 40+ people.

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  • Population as Auditor of an Election Process in Honduras: The Case of the VotoSocial Crowdsourcing Platform

    Policy & Internet Volume 7, Issue 2, pages 185–202

    For a country to become fully democratic, the majority of the population needs to be involved in the politics of that country. This requires people to be aware of what is happening, and to be able to participate in the country's political processes. VotoSocial is a crowdsourcing system launched during the 2013 Honduran government elections. It retrieved the official polling table records in digitized form from the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (the Government's elections authority) and provided…

    For a country to become fully democratic, the majority of the population needs to be involved in the politics of that country. This requires people to be aware of what is happening, and to be able to participate in the country's political processes. VotoSocial is a crowdsourcing system launched during the 2013 Honduran government elections. It retrieved the official polling table records in digitized form from the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (the Government's elections authority) and provided them to the Internet community to be counted and the digitizations verified. VotoSocial was thereby able to verify the accuracy of the official polling results. We found no evidence of fraud in the digitization process, but statistical analysis revealed a data behavior usually associated with incremental fraud in an electoral process. VotoSocial shows that social media-powered crowdsourcing systems can increase a population's political awareness during elections, thus providing a motive to build similar platforms in other countries with political systems marked by electoral fraud.

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Honors & Awards

  • MIT Technology Review - Top Innovators under 35

    MIT Technology Review

    Awarded as Top Innovator under 35 in 2015 by MIT Technology Review for my work leading VotoSocial.org. Additionally, won the special award as Top Social Innovator for 2015.

    https://www.innovatorsunder35.com/the-list/jorge-garcia/

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  • Spanish

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  • French

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  • Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative / Latino Business Action Network

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    - Present

    LBAN’s mission is to strengthen the United States by empowering leaders to grow substantial firms that create jobs, develop leaders and spawn a new generation of companies. Our goal is to double the number of $10+ million, $100+ million, and $1+ billion Latino-owned businesses by 2025. A collaboration with Stanford Graduate School of Business, in which LBAN funds business research and education-impact programs, called the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative, was created to carry out…

    LBAN’s mission is to strengthen the United States by empowering leaders to grow substantial firms that create jobs, develop leaders and spawn a new generation of companies. Our goal is to double the number of $10+ million, $100+ million, and $1+ billion Latino-owned businesses by 2025. A collaboration with Stanford Graduate School of Business, in which LBAN funds business research and education-impact programs, called the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative, was created to carry out this mission.

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