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KCWiT launches program to help middle school girls explore tech
KANSAS CITY—As part of a continual effort to help women in technology fields, nonprofit Kansas City Women in Technology (KCWiT) created Tech sHeroes earlier this year, a program focused on educating, encouraging and empowering middle school girls to explore careers in technology.
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Join KC Digital Drive for digital health innovation forum on Aug. 20
Join KC Digital Drive the evening before mHIT2014—the Midwest Health Informatics and Telemedicine Conference at Children’s Mercy—to talk about three of the Google Fiber-enabled telemedicine pilot projects being built in Kansas City.
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First KC regional Gigabit City Summit slated for Tuesday
It may have been a few years since Google announced that Kansas City would become the first in the country to receive Google Fiber, but local community leaders are still trying to figure out the best ways to harness its power.
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Building the Gigabit City returns to KC, with $150K fund for support
Kansas City has had gigabit connectivity for a while now, but there’s still work to be done finding out how the community and its entrepreneurs can best harness the potential. Next Thursday, Feb. 13, Mozilla will re-launch Building the Gigabit City 2.0 downtown at the Kansas City Public Library, partnering with KC Digital Drive and…
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KC Digital Drive launches new 1 Billion Bits series this Wednesday
Members of the Kansas City startup scene will soon have another regular meet-up to brew their ideas. 1 Billion Bits—a new speaker and event series created by KC Digital Drive—was created to help foster conversations between developers and the technical community about …
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How to hack a gigabit city
This weekend, about 100 hackers, developers and visionaries will gather in the City of Fountains for Hacking the Gigabit City, an event aimed at creating and developing the advanced uses for the ultra-high-speed connectivity that Google Fiber is bringing to Kansas City. Our local organizations—the Kauffman Foundation and KC Digital Drive—have partnered with the national…
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With Digital Drive, KC leadership continues push to make most of Fiber
The Mid-America Regional Council on Thursday announced the formation of KC Digital Drive, the latest iteration on a plan by civic leadership from both sides of the …