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No. 91: Girls Killing the Technology Game

Jul 30, 2015

Technology

2015, Africa, andreessen horowitz, Brazil, Coding, competition, Computer Science, High School, India, Menlo park, Nigeria, Soundcloud, Team Charis, Technovation

Andreessen Horowitz just posted a short interview with four high school girls who recently competed in Technovation 2015. (If you’re opening this in your email, click on the title so that you can see the podcast linked below.) The winner of the competition was a team from Nigeria! All of the teams are really impressive.…
No. 52: Municipal Broadband Gets President Obama’s Attention

Jan 14, 2015

Technology

broadband, cities, competition, Obama

I was excited to read that President Obama has set his sights on ensuring that cities can develop their own broadband networks, should they choose to do so. While working with the Georgia Municipal Association, we had a couple of close calls that would have prevented Georgia cities from operating their own broadband networks. President Obama…