It's a new tech city quick.

This is Manoosh Samarote, host of new tech city, and this is a new tech city quickie, short

conversations with interesting people.

And joining me now is someone I see a lot around tech events here in New York City.

He's got a pretty exciting vision of how education is going to be transformed, transformed

by techies and others who are taking teaching our kids into their own hands, not just leaving

them in schools.

Andrew Rache, he is chairman of New York Tech Meetup, which has over 35,000 members.

He's the founder of the news website techpresident.com and he's the founder of mouse.org, which trains

kids to become tech experts in their schools.

Hi Andrew.

Hey there.

I feel like there are so many things we could talk about, but what I find so interesting

is that you are really at the intersection of nonprofits, startups, and what you call

civic innovation.

So tell us how you define civic innovation.

Well, civic innovation is the idea that all of this connectivity that we have that's

happening all around us is having an impact on not just politics, but government and governance

and how people actually relate to their city.

The normal way we would think about civic engagement would be you go vote, maybe join

the community board, but we're actually seeing now that this connectivity allows people

to be much more engaged, not only because they are able to connect with each other, but

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