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April 2017

Towards an Action Plan: Can the Tech Industry Help Mitigate the Effects of Winner-Take-All Urbanism?

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Recently, we've noticed a trend. People who have found success in their chosen professions in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, have built businesses, and are now looking at pathways to create greater economic opportunity in the cities and towns where they grew up. The trend-and we think it is a trend-is seen in individuals as diverse as J.D. Vance, Walter Isaacson, Christopher Alan. The first two you probably know. J.D. Vance...
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Routes for Makers (& Others) into Good Paying Work: Do Programming Bootcamps Work?

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Guest Post by Ammon Bartram, Co Founder of Triplebyte [Editorial changes to the original post are in italics]   Programming bootcamps seem to make an impossible claim. Instead of spending four years in university, they say, you can learn how to be a software engineer in a three-month program. On the face of it, this sounds more like an ad for Trump University than a plausible educational model. But this…

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Rotterdam: from Innovation District to Maker City

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Rotterdam was once the industrial heartland of South Holland, where ocean-bound behemoths took shape beneath the hands of the nation’s finest shipbuilders. Today, despite the disappearance of SS Rotterdam and her kin from its docks, this still-vibrant port city is testament to how innovation can help bring an ailing metropolis back to life. Last year, Rotterdam’s status as a city of the future was cemented when Lonely Planet ranked it…

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