Technology...Child Labor...Good?

 Lately, with all the rumors about child labor in technology giants like Samsung and Microsoft, hardware has been given a bit of a bad rep. In fact, recently Apple was forced to cut ties with one of its suppliers who had been using child labor in their produce. Ahem.

But technology can be good for child labor as well, and a new, trending app called "KidRescue" is a perfect example of that. Based in Colombia, this tool allows anyone who spots a child at work to take a picture -- From there, the photo, location, and details go to the ICBF, the Columbia Family Research Institute.

South America is no heaven for child laborers. Nearly 1.5 million child laborers reside in Colombia alone, and in its neighbor Bolivia, 40 percent of all kids work.  An impressive 3,800 reports have been filed from this app since its launch last February, and not all of them in Colombia alone. While the ICBF is currently working on cleaning up child labor in Colombia, many pictures have been received from from the hotspots of Asia and Africa.

They have had troubles. Many see them and not the employers as child-snatchers, and others have the misconception that work steels a child and gives them a sense of responsibility. But their groundbreaking work has helped more than 60 children off the streets and into classrooms, and according to them, should help about 150 million more in the future. That's encouraging.