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Matt Stempeck
Matt Stempeck joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about the Civic Tech Field Guide and why projects succeed or fail.
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https://youtu.be/jQ-PZUNkNfg Automatic transcription, it may contain errors Alessandro Oppo (00:02) Welcome to another episode of Democracy Innovator podcast and our guest of today is Matt Stempek. And you're working on this VicTech guide, right? Matt (00:12) Yes, the Civic Tech Field Guide because it's a field. Alessandro Oppo (00:14) Okay, thank you for your time. And it's a quite big project. And how did you start and yeah, how it is working now? Are you alone? is a team. Matt (00:32) Yeah, sure. So it's actually this year will be our 10th anniversary, which is very exciting. We know from our collection that not everyone makes it to 10 years in this space. It's difficult to sustain so long. ⁓ So about 10 years ago, I was at Microsoft on a Civic Tech team in New York City and some of my colleagues at Civic Hall, Mika Sifri and Aaron Simpson. The three of us got together in a room and j
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