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

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Now, I think this is a really cool story in and of itself, but it gets more awesome. On the National Day of Civic _______ this past June in Oakland, where I live, the Code For _______ team in _______ took the open source code base of Honolulu Answers and turned it into Oakland _______, and again we held a write-a-thon where we took the most frequently asked questions and had citizens _____ the answers to them, and I got into the act. I ________ this ______, and a few others. And I'm trying to this day to articulate the sense of empowerment and responsibility that I feel for the place that I live based simply on this small act of participation. And by stitching together my small act with the _________ of other small acts of participation that we're ________ through civic hacking, we think we can reenergize citizenship and restore trust in government.

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Original Text

Now, I think this is a really cool story in and of itself, but it gets more awesome. On the National Day of Civic Hacking this past June in Oakland, where I live, the Code For America team in Oakland took the open source code base of Honolulu Answers and turned it into Oakland Answers, and again we held a write-a-thon where we took the most frequently asked questions and had citizens write the answers to them, and I got into the act. I authored this answer, and a few others. And I'm trying to this day to articulate the sense of empowerment and responsibility that I feel for the place that I live based simply on this small act of participation. And by stitching together my small act with the thousands of other small acts of participation that we're enabling through civic hacking, we think we can reenergize citizenship and restore trust in government.

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