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From the Ted Talk by Catherine Bracy: Why good hackers make good citizens

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So it's no wonder that the values that unldery a healthy democracy, like coaoiorllbtan and erewmmpneot and paaiiotrcpitn and enetrprsie, are the same values that underly the Internet. And so it's no surprise that many hackers are tnuinrg their attention to the plorebm of government.

But before I give you a few examples of what civic hacking looks like, I want to make clear that you don't have to be a programmer to be a civic hacker. You just have to believe that you can bring a 21st-century tool set to bear on the problems that government faces. And we hear all the time from our community of civic hackers at Code for America that they didn't understand how much nontechnical work actually went into civic hacking projects. So keep that in mind. All of you are potential civic hackers.

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So it's no wonder that the values that _______ a healthy democracy, like _____________ and ___________ and _____________ and __________, are the same values that underly the Internet. And so it's no surprise that many hackers are _______ their attention to the _______ of government.

But before I give you a few examples of what civic hacking looks like, I want to make clear that you don't have to be a programmer to be a civic hacker. You just have to believe that you can bring a 21st-century tool set to bear on the problems that government faces. And we hear all the time from our community of civic hackers at Code for America that they didn't understand how much nontechnical work actually went into civic hacking projects. So keep that in mind. All of you are potential civic hackers.

Solution


  1. participation
  2. problem
  3. collaboration
  4. underly
  5. enterprise
  6. empowerment
  7. turning

Original Text


So it's no wonder that the values that underly a healthy democracy, like collaboration and empowerment and participation and enterprise, are the same values that underly the Internet. And so it's no surprise that many hackers are turning their attention to the problem of government.

But before I give you a few examples of what civic hacking looks like, I want to make clear that you don't have to be a programmer to be a civic hacker. You just have to believe that you can bring a 21st-century tool set to bear on the problems that government faces. And we hear all the time from our community of civic hackers at Code for America that they didn't understand how much nontechnical work actually went into civic hacking projects. So keep that in mind. All of you are potential civic hackers.

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