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FLOSS Weekly 598: DemocracyLab - Tech For Good

FLOSS Weekly (Audio)

English - September 30, 2020 19:30 - 1 hour - 28.9 MB
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DemocracyLab connects tech for good projects with skilled volunteers. This non-profit sets out to empower people who use technology to advance the common good. Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett talk with Mark Frischmuth, the founder and Executive Director of DemocracyLab. They discuss how DemocracyLab is open to not just software developers but also designers, marketers, and financial analysts, which allows projects to get made and adapted by users. The talk about the importance of technologists stepping up and using their cognitive surplus to create a better world.


Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett


Guest: Mark Frischmuth


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