Power of Civic Tech Community

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Volunteering in a civic‑tech community accelerates career growth by giving real responsibilities in a low‑risk setting: two years of contributions lead to tech‑lead role experience managing volunteer developers, making technical decisions (and learning from mistakes), and shipping a community website redesign that is live and used. Projects include a disease‑prevention app and a public debts/politician database, all open source visibility that adds GitHub contributions, portfolio pieces, and useful networking.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:23Why Civic Tech Community
3. 2:29Civic Tech Communities
4. 3:59Team Support
5. 4:09Community
6. 4:35Tech lead
7. 5:03New website
8. 5:34Networking
9. 6:20Be Professional
10. 6:37Your Community
11. 6:59Outro

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