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Introducing The Look Ahead

Here's something new: A video interview series looking at lessons learned from the last year, and how we'll carry them forward.

 

Technical.ly reporter Donte Kirby is talking to leaders in civic tech and digital equity about how they're building on work that was born in a crisis, and setting it up for the long haul.

 

Check out the first episode below with Project Waves' Samantha Musgrave. Let us know who else we should talk to anytime at baltimore@techncial.ly.

 

—Technical.ly Assistant Editor Stephen Babcock (stephen@technical.ly


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